Lawyers for survivors of the July 2005 terrorist attack in London are looking into whether Scotland Yard officers leaked their phone numbers to News Of The World.Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors’ Coalition Foundation, told the Guardian that a number of survivors had contacted her with suspicions that Scotland Yard had “sold” or leaked their phone numbers, after they had been contacted by News Of The World reporters. She herself shared those suspicions: “Scotland Yard had the full list of survivor contact details. I am pretty sure that is how the News of the World got my home address. I had only moved there maybe three or four weeks before News of the World reporters turned up. The only place where my new details were stored were the post office, bank, doctor and Scotland Yard.”
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