Phone hacking: Met had the evidence. How will it explain five years of failure?

Claims by senior officers that Operation Caryatid left 'no stone unturned' look set to haunt police force in light of last week's trial

It is not only David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch who are caught in the sticky web of the phone-hacking scandal. Scotland Yard too remains tangled in troubling questions revived by evidence disclosed in the Old Bailey trial that ended last week.

The questions remain unanswered because while the Yard's leadership has run a sprawling inquiry into allegations of crime by journalists and public officials, it has opted not to commission any kind of investigation into what went wrong under its own roof.

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