The collapse of a high-profile murder trial over evidential questions poses
uncomfortable questions for the police. But the case is of much wider
significance, since it poses equally difficult questions for the prime
minister, for his former press secretary, Andy Coulson, and for all those at
News International who have stuck to their claim that no one in the company ?
bar one rotten apple ? had any knowledge of illegal behaviour by, or on behalf
of, its journalists.
Jonathan Rees, who was yesterday cleared of murdering his former business
partner, Daniel Morgan, is a private investigator of a particularly unpleasant
and vindicative kind. In the late 1990s he was working for the News of the
World, paid as much as �150,000 a year to use his dark arts to illegally trawl
for personal information on the paper's targets. The work, which included
bribing police officers, came to the attention of Scotland Yard's anti-
corruption team, who bugged his office for six months. In December 2000 his
newspaper work ? which included work for the Mirror Group ? came to a sudden
and enforced halt when he was jailed for seven years after being caught
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