Exhibit 1250 ยท Parliamentary select committee report
Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Ninth Report of Session 2009-10, Press standards, privacy and libel (HC 362), chapter on phone-hacking
The idea that Clive Goodman was a "rogue reporter" acting alone is also directly contradicted by the Judge who presided at the Goodman and Mulcaire trial.
Committee report that reopened evidence after July 2009 press reports of settlements. Records that News International had told the committee and the PCC that its inquiries showed the Goodman case was isolated, and finds that the 'rogue reporter' account is contradicted by the trial judge's summing up.
- Source
- House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee
- Date
- 24 February 2010
- Quoted from
- Chapter on phone-hacking, para. 441
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmcumeds/362/36208.htm
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Para. 442: 'The newspaper's enquiries were far from 'full' or 'rigorous', as we - and the PCC - had been assured.' Para. 401 records the 2007 assurances and the Q95 exchange. Para. 440: 'Evidence we have seen makes it inconceivable that no-one else at the News of the World , bar Clive Goodman, knew about the phone-hacking.' Para. 439: 'We have seen no evidence that Andy Coulson knew that phone-hacking was taking place.' Section and summary text read via a Wayback copy; chapter file 36208.htm; the summary chapter (36203.htm) restates the finding. The report is of the committee, which in later proceedings (Leveson Inquiry) was followed by further findings not read here.