Yesterday's Newsnight looked at the way News International used private detectives in a brazen attempt to collect material about the private lives of lawyers acting for clients in the Phone Hacking Scandal.
There can be little doubt that if the detectives had uncovered material about the sexual behaviour of the lawyers or their families (teenage daughters were being followed and photographed!) this would have been used to blackmail the lawyers to back-off from News International.
I am not a lawyer myself, but presumably this amounts to an attempt to dispose of evidence?
In which case it is presumably an attempt to pervert the course of justice?
Am I right in thinking that in the United Kingdom attempting to pervert the course of justice carries a maximum sentence of Life Imprisonment (although most serious offenders only seem to get ten years)?
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