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Ex-Scotland Yard official admits links to hacking suspects

Denies that was why investigation of scandal vetoed

By Raphael Satter

 |  Associated Press  

  March 02, 2012

One of Scotland Yard’s former top-ranking officers struggled yesterday to explain his close ties to people who later became suspects in the British phone-hacking saga, denying any suggestion that he refused to reinvestigate the scandal to protect his drinking buddies. But former Assistant Commissioner John Yates had trouble explaining the nature of his convivial relationship with senior News of the World journalists Neil Wallis and Lucy Panton - both of whom have since been arrested.

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