Sentence examples for yard evidence from inspiring English sources

LONDON — For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else.

As if that weren't bad enough, the network also declined to screen the show in advance for critics, making it less likely to draw attention than a private eye's notebook in a Scotland Yard evidence locker.

In suppressing Taylor's legal action, News Group buried not only the Scotland Yard evidence but also paperwork that had been seized by the Information Commission from a Hampshire private investigator, Steve Whittamore, who had been running a network of sources who specialised in the illegal extraction of information from police computers, British Telecom, the DVLA, Inland Revenue and others.

According to one source with direct knowledge of the Scotland Yard evidence, News of the World journalists were systematically using private investigators who would break the law to obtain information, hacking into thousands of mobile phones and supplying raw material which was then converted into stories that made no reference to their real source.

Scotland Yard's evidence – revealed at last year's public inquiry – included forensic reports, a "radiation schedule", phone records and CCTV footage.

Scotland Yard collected evidence indicating that reporters at News of the World might have hacked the phone messages of hundreds of celebrities, government officials, soccer stars — anyone whose personal secrets could be tabloid fodder.

The officials, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss a continuing criminal inquiry, said the investigation remained open in case Scotland Yard discovered evidence confirming the suspicions of the Sept. 11 relatives.

Scotland Yard removed evidence of racial and sexual discrimination from documents it submitted to an employment tribunal, which has decided the force had "singled out and targeted" a black officer because of her race and gender.

A few months later, she gave a speech to the Society Editors rubbishing claims by solicitor Mark Lewis, who represented hacking victims, that Scotland Yard had evidence that the News of the World's criminality had been on a much grander scale than previously thought.

At the brown colonial-style house, where most of the bodies were found, the only sign of the violence that took place was yellow crime-scene tape stretched across a neatly landscaped front yard and evidence flags in the nearby woods.

Scotland Yard has no evidence on this matter, because it failed to investigate it.