Met detectives investigating historic evidence of computer hacking buried for years by Soca only received key information last week

Ian Timlin held over claims he hired private eyes to buy information from the Met

More than 100 companies and celebrities who used rogue investigators may finally be named following investigation by The Independent

Nick Clegg has suggested that a secret list of firms and individuals that used corrupt private investigators should be published in the interests of “transparency”.

List handed to MPs includes law firms, construction companies and two famous celebrities - but no media group or newspaper

Scotland Yard was dragged into the blue-chip hacking scandal last night after Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was asked to release suppressed information from four little-known investigations into rogue private detective agencies.

Angry MPs join calls for secret list of those involved as banks and pharmaceutical firms are linked to rogue private investigators

Soca forced to disclose people and organisations that security officials knew had hired corrupt private investigators who broke the law

The security chief who is refusing to publish the names of blue-chip companies who hired corrupt private detectives is at the centre of a new row, after it emerged he failed to disclose that his wife works for a private investigations agency when he gave evidence to Parliament.

“Britain’s FBI” has ordered a powerful committee of MPs to take extraordinary security measures to protect the identities of blue-chip organisations that hired criminal private investigators.