Mark Lewis To Sue Over NoW Surveillance Of 4 Year Old Daughter A lawyer who represents phone-hacking victims is to sue News International for damages after it was revealed one of its papers spied on him. Mark Lewis told BBC Radio 5 live he was taking legal action after it emerged the News of the World (NoW) hired private investigators to follow him. Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman said the revelations were a “new low”. News International has said the action was “deeply inappropriate” and “not condoned by any current executives”. Mr Lewis’s former wife, daughter and other solicitors were also followed. The lawyer, whose clients include the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that he was “looking over his shoulder, thinking I’m being followed”. “I don’t know what’s actually happening out there,” he said. “It’s staggering. It’s very upsetting to find that out that they could even think of doing that. It was just wrong.” Derek Webb, who ran private investigations firm Silent Shadow, said he had been commissioned by the NoW to carry out surveillance on Mr Lewis and his former assistant Charlotte Harris in early 2010. Mr Lewis said the now-defunct tabloid newspaper had been trying to find out whether he was having an affair with Ms Harris, who also represents phone-hacking victims, but that it was “barking up the wrong tree”. “My private life has absolutely nothing to do with my professional life. Even if they had found out …


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