Post date: Jul 19, 2011 3:41:21 PM
A former News of the World reporter who was found dead had said hacking was endemic at the newspaper.
LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM. BBC PANORAMA -
Former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare who was found dead on Monday (July 18) had warned that hacking was "endemic" at the tabloid.
It was Hoare who told the New York Times that phone hacking at the tabloid was far more extensive than the paper had
acknowledged at the time.
The former show business reporter also told the BBC he was asked by Coulson, who went on to work for the prime minister, to tap phones.
"People were scared," Hoare told the BBC, adding there was enormous pressure to get a story by "whatever means".
Hoare said that sort of pressure was part of the culture at the weekly newspaper, that was shut down 12 days ago.