HART ATTACK

BBC Bias Scandal Over Phone Hacking Film Fixer's Secret Deal

At precisely 3.47pm on 12 January 2017, two exasperated men in a central London hotel bar congratulated themselves on finally signing a confidential agreement with a former private investigator to buy her cache of documents.

The private investigator was hawking invoices for work she had done for national newspapers.

To the men at the Park Tower Hotel in K…