A year on from the hacking trial, both News Corp and Scotland Yard have declined to comment on whether or not Rupert Murdoch has yet been questioned by police.

On 25 June last year, The Guardian reported that News Corp chairman Murdoch had been informed by Scotland Yard that detectives wanted to interview him as a suspect under caution.

It reported that detectives first sought to interview Murdoch in 2013, but they agreed to await the conclusion of the hacking trial – which saw former News of the World editor Andy Coulson jailed.