Thread by @BInvestigates

So we've given you a sample of 'Byline Investigations in the Mail in the last year. Here's our thread on what we've discovered about Murdoch. Most recent first

1. According to Sunday Times whistleblower John Ford, Tony Blair's key government decision-makers were under surveillance, with his targets including the Prime Minister himself, his wife Cherie, and one of their children.

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2. Former actor, writer and comedian John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to unlawfully obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory phone numbers and penetrate private financial material.

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3. A TRIAL alleging phone hacking took place at The Sun and that both James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks were guilty of criminality has been aborted after dramatic last-minute pay outs to four test claimants.

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Court Hears that Tens of Millions of Emails Deleted - After NGN Were Allegedly Put On Notice TWICE. Emails of key bosses such as Rebekah Brooks were erased - despite being told by Operation Weeting police to preserve evidence
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5. Trevor Kavanagh used stolen phone bills for P1 story on MP's private life - later attacked police for lawfully searching out corrupt journalists

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6. A SENIOR journalist at Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun illegally bought people’s medical, phone, and benefits records for stories from data criminals for cash - then tried to hide the evidence in secret draft company emails, the High Court has heard.
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7. BRITAIN’S leading police service knew one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers was illegally spying on an Army secret agent – but failed to notify him for seven years, Byline can reveal. bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/1…

8. AN EDITOR and Deputy Editor of The Sun repeatedly used private investigators to illegally obtain people’s private data - damaging new evidence that undermines the paper’s denials of wrongdoing to the Leveson Inquiry. bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/1…

9. A JOURNALIST on a flagship Rupert Murdoch newspaper was caught with explicit email instructions on how to hack people's voicemails, the High Court has heard. bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/1…

10. RUPERT Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has admitted computer and e-mail hacking in an attempt to unmask Britain's top informant within the IRA, Byline can reveal.
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11. A NEWS executive at The Sun thought the paper might be “f**ked” by claims it illegally accessed the medical records of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s seriously ill baby boy, the High Court in London has heard.
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12. REBEKAH Brooks directly ordered journalists to break the law for a story, according to revelatory new email evidence that contradicts years of denials of wrongdoing by the News UK Chief Executive. bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/6…

13. NEWS UK Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks oversaw a front-page story knowing it was based on the hacked voicemails of a football manager and his girlfriend, Byline Investigations has learned. bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/1…

14. Despite his Leveson evidence many of Mazher Mahmood's stories for News of the World were stood up using illegal hacking and blagging bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/1…