Tom Watson Speaks Out Against James Murdoch

Tom Watson MP called for James Murdoch to be suspended because he 'personally and without board approval' authorised money to be paid to silence people who said they had been hacked and called it ‘nothing short of an attempt to pervert the course of justice'.

Among his accusations, Watson said Brooks and James Murdoch should be questioned about the destruction of information at the HCL storage facility in Chennai, India.
'They now have to accept their culpability and face the full force of the law,' he said.
He further accused them of 'lawbreaking', of having 'links to the criminal underworld' and of 'paying people for their silence'.
He added: 'They are not fit and proper persons to control any part of the media in this country.'