This is a very brief call to action for fellow Kossacks. In the last few minutes it's been revealed that Peter Foster, a conman based in Australia, has been told by police detectives that he was hacked in 2002 by employees of the Sun Newspaper. This isn't the News of the World, now closed, but the much bigger daily. It also proves that Glenn Mulcaire, whose notebooks form the basis of Operation Weeting and the Hackgate scandal that has engulfed news corp, was not the only person involved in phone hacking - something long suspected by never proved
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/...
Mr Foster said he was contacted by two Australian Federal Police officers on Friday, March 9, and they told him his phone number had been found on computers seized under Operation Weeting, the British investigation into phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News International.
The AFP has not confirmed that its officers approached Mr Foster on behalf of British authorities, but he alerted news organisations to the contact last week.
He said he then received an email from a Dublin-based private investigator calling himself ''Autarch'', who told Mr Foster he tapped into his mother's phone in December 2002.
That month, The Sun published the ''Foster tapes'', which featured transcripts of Mr Foster talking about selling the story of his links with Tony Blair's wife, Cherie. Yesterday, Mr Foster said he had since had a Skype conversation with the investigator in Dublin, in which Autarch described how he tapped into Mr Foster's mother's
phone.
And here's the smoking gun - fresh from the Sun archives
http://www.thesun.co.uk/...
THESE are the amazing phone conversations that shamed Peter Foster and his brother Paul had with their mother yesterday.
In them, Foster makes it plain he is determined to cash in on the Cheriegate scandal.
Foster’s mum Louise Pelloti, who lives in Dublin, eggs him on.
There are also references to investors ? including ex-soccer star Paul Walsh ? in a slimming venture Foster planned to launch.
The transcripts begin with a call from Foster’s brother Paul, who phoned Louise from Australia
What can Kossacks do? Well, tweet these two links to the Leveson inquiry (just add the #leveson hashtag). If you can, add the names of key legislators investigating the phone hacking, like I have done below
This will make sure that the issues is at the top of the Leveson list when the inquiry sits again tomorrow morning.
Alternatively, just retweet my tweet. You should find it here.