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The following link leads to an article about the News of the World hacking scandal and the fact that the mobile telephone number or Robert Thomson was sold to journalists at the time that he was first in protective custody: http://hackinginquiry.org/comment/if-a-bulger-killer-was-hacked-how-did-mulcaire-get-his-top-secret-number/
Hacking anyones phone is a dispicable act in any case and it is certainly no surprise to me that journalists undertake such practices. What worries me here is the extra dimension. Robert Thomson would, at that time, have been one of the best protected people in the country. If a mere journalist can penetrate that security with a bribe then it can most certainly be done by others. The implication of this revelation is that the criminal justice system cannot be trusted to protect those which it is duty bound to protect.
There will have been very senior people outside of the police who had access to the information and I hope that when the full facts are out it turns out not to have been a member of the police service on the take. If it was then the term 'witness protection' has very little meaning.
