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Sue Akers: 'Number of victims of phone hacking over 1,000'

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers gives evidence to a Commons Home Affairs Committee regarding phone hacking in July Credit: PA/PA Wire

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, has told the Home Affair Committee that the number of likely victims of phone hacking has risen to 1,069. Seventy-nine people have been arrested, but only nine have been charged.