Chapter 28
To say Chief Superintendent Bates was relieved with the present outcome would have been the understatement of the century. He’d been deflecting all enquiries into phone hacking back toward the lone rogue theory for nearly two years. But, over the last few months, as revelation after revelation, was made on the extent of the hacking, he had known that his involvement would come to light soon.
The mention of Jonathan Mason almost sent him into a catatonic state. Then the discovery of Mason’s body at his office, and the discovery of the removal of all the hard drives had nearly put him on a plane to Venezuela. He had no knowledge about the content of these disks, but the mere fact that they existed and were in somebody else’s possession, was enough to tell him that they probably
