News UK could face contempt case for allegedly targeting witness protection

Police understood to have found evidence that Glenn Mulcaire targeted voicemail messages of officers working on programme

Rupert Murdoch's UK company could face a possible action for contempt of court over allegations that the News of the World penetrated Scotland Yard's highly secret witness protection programme.

Detectives working for the Operation Weeting inquiry into phone hacking are understood to have found evidence that the paper's £92,000-a-year specialist hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, targeted the voicemail messages of officers who were working on the programme.

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