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Murdochs,Brooks in dock over phone-hacking scandal

Dramatic showdown with British lawmakers:

UK: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, son James and former top aide Rebekah Brooks on Tuesday faced a dramatic showdown with British lawmakers over the phone-hacking scandal which has enraged the nation.

The under-fire trio were to appear before a parliamentary committee to break their silence over the escalating crisis which on Monday claimed the scalp of a second police chief.

Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron announced he was to cut short a trip to Africa to deal with a scandal that threatens his own position.

In a bizarre twist, a whistleblower at the heart of the scandal was found dead at his home on Monday but police were not treating the death as suspicious. News International (NI), Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, was believed to have taken down its webpages Tuesday after the Lulz Security hacker group replaced The Sun’s online version with a fake story pronouncing the mogul’s death. The Murdochs and former NI chief executive Brooks faced a harrowing afternoon Tuesday in front of the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which was to demand the trio “account for the behaviour” of the tainted media giant. James Murdoch, chief executive of parent company News Corp’s Europe and Asia operation, promised to be the focus of scrutiny over payments he is alleged to have approved to the victims of hacking.

Cameron has also been forced to defend his own position after Stephenson, Britain’s most senior police officer, took a swipe at the prime minister’s decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his media chief.

Stephenson quit on Sunday over the force’s hiring of Neil Wallis who was deputy to Coulson at the tabloid and over a spa break he accepted from a firm where Wallis was a consultant.

Tuesday, AFP

 

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