A single question emerges consistently from my email in-box and from acquaintances who raise the subject of phone hacking: is News International paying the legal fees of convicted voicemail interceptor Glenn Mulcaire?
Writers routinely refer to the assumption (early examples here and here), yet News Int remains silent.
If the answer is "yes", then there is an obvious follow-up question. Why should a major media corporation be offering financial support to a man who went to jail for illicit activities that, according to its recent statement, were the cause of "genuine regret"?
So, I ask both questions again of Rupert Murdoch's company: are you paying Mulcaire's legal expenses? If so, why?
And I intend to go on asking them every day until we get answers.
