London police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World tabloid are broadening their investigation to allegations of computer hacking, they said on Saturday.
A new investigative team will be set up to tackle the new allegations, reporting to Sue Akers, the officer in charge of the phone hacking probe, the Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement. “Operation Tuleta is currently considering a number of allegations regarding breach of privacy, received by the MPS since January 2011, which fall outside the remit of (phone-hacking) Operation Weeting, including computer hacking,” the statement by the London police force said. “Some aspects of this operation will move forward to a formal investigation.”