Lord Prescott is to launch a claim for a judicial review of the Metropolitan Police’s handling of phone hacking claims involving the News of the World.
The former deputy prime minister has complained that police have refused to say whether his phone calls were targeted.
The newspaper’s editor at the time, Andy Coulson, is now head of communications at Downing Street.
He has denied knowing that some of his reporters were engaged in hacking.
“It has always been my intention to discover the truth behind this case and whether the Metropolitan Police fulfilled its duty to follow all the lines of evidence,” Lord Prescott said in a statement on his website.
“It is my belief they didn’t and I hope the judicial review will finally reveal why justice not only wasn’t done but wasn’t seen to be done.”
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