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2000

November

2006

June

July

  • 5 - According to Hurst/Ingram, an email hacked from his computer is sent to the Dublin office of the News of the World on this date. The hacker was a former FRU colleague of Ingram who had had met two News of the World journalists in Leeds in mid-2006, who had engaged him to "obtain information and documents about activities connected to my ongoing investigations relating to matters in Northern Ireland".[4]

2007

February

March

April

  • 22 A Martin Breen article in the News of the World gives details of an afffidavit sworn by Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Graham Taylor of the Stevens Inquiry, naming the UDA's William 'Mo' Courtney as one of the killers of Pat Finucane on the basis of evidence from a UDA mole. The article stated: "The affidavit from DCI Taylor has never been read out in court and was part of other proceedings brought by the Stevens Inquiry to obtain documents for its investigation. We have obtained the document from a source not involved in the Stevens Inquiry or Crown Prosecution Service."[7]

2009

May

  • 21 - Alex Marunchak reports in the Press Gazette that the News of the World's Belfast Editor, Martin Breen has been appointed editor of the Sunday Life. News of the World colleague David O'Dornan joins him as associate editor.[8]

2011

February

  • Philip Campbell Smith named as the man accused of hacking Ian Hurst, after he is convicted of onspiring to illegally access private information for profit in a separate case.[9]

Notes

  1. Neil Mackay, The Scot behind Ulster's dirty war; Elite unit passed intelligence to UDA death squads, The Sunday Herald, 19 November 2000.
  2. Martin Breen, Secret life of mobster who killed Kielty dad, News of the World, 18 June 2006.
  3. Martin Breen, Brave ibbo truly was one of a kind, Sunday Life, 19 April 2009.
  4. Ian Hurst's witness statement to the Leveson inquiry - full text, guardian.co.uk, 28 November 2011.
  5. Martin Breen, Order's secret love child, News of the World, 11 February 2007, archived at nuzhound.com.
  6. Martin Breen, Stakeknife quizzed on shootings, News of the World, 4 March 2007, archived at nuzhound.com.
  7. Martin Breen, UDA mole nailed Mo, News of the World, 22 April 2007.
  8. Alex Marunchak, Martin Breen becomes Sunday Life's youngest editor, Press Gazette, 21 May 2009.
  9. Vikram Dodd and Nick Davies, News of the World hacking suspect pleads guilty to conspiracy, guardian.co.uk, 20 February 2012.