Gordon Brown asks Met to launch fresh probe into phone hacking amid 'cover up' allegations

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to the head of the Met Police to call for a new criminal investigation into News International over phone hacking.
A decade ago the police conducted an investigation into hacking. Its boss Rebekah Brooks was prosecuted and cleared.
But today Brown is calling for a new police probe after new information in court documents allege a massive cover-up by News International, which reveal that he was accused of being in a conspiracy to obtain internal emails.
This supposed security threat to the owner of the News of the World and The Sun was allegedly used to explain to police why millions of emails - that may have been key evidence - were destroyed.
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