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Sir Paul McCartney allegedly targeted by NotW phone hackers [Asian News International](Asian News International Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) London, July 18 (ANI): Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney was allegedly targeted by phone hackers during his multi-million pound divorce from former model Heather Mills. According to senior figures in his public relations team, they believe Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who was working exclusively for the News of the World, had hacked into their phones. McCartney, 69, was at the time represented by the Outside Organisation, one of Britain's biggest entertainment PR companies. Ironically, the company later employed Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World who was arrested last week, as its managing director. Outside's founder, Alan Edwards, and McCartney's personal spokesman, Stuart Bell, who now runs his own public relations company, both allegedly had their telephones hacked during the period. It is not thought that McCartney's telephone was hacked directly because his mobile phone number was known to only a handful of his closest friends, family and advisers. Bell refused to comment but sources confirmed he had to change his mobile phone security PIN code on a number of occasions in the period when the couple's marriage was disintegrating. He also discovered messages that had been deleted before he had even heard them and others that had been listened to before he had heard them. "Given the line of work I am in and how long I have been in it, I have got to know a lot of people," the Telegraph quoted Edwards, one of the most respected figures in the entertainment industry, as saying. "It is unlikely I wasn't phone hacked. A lot of things were going on during the McCartney-Mills divorce," he added. When asked whether stories that appeared in the News of the World might have been as a result of phone hacking, Edwards said stories of the divorce were being published so frequently, he and his team "never had time to think where they were coming from". "In retrospect, you have to think it might have been," he added. (ANI) (c) 2011 Asian News International (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |