Letter: Stand up to them

Andrew Whitaker's eye-popping front page (your report, 5 July) implies, without specifically stating (in accordance, I suspect, with the rules of evidence) that the editor of the Scottish News of the World may well have committed perjury himself, when giving evidence at the Sheridan perjury trial.

This was revealed on the day it was widely reported that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler's mobile telephone, and deleted voice mails, misleading the police and her parents to believe she was still alive.

Whether or not Bob Bird's flawed evidence materially affected the outcome of the Sheridan trial is irrelevant - what we have here is a rogue news corporation repeatedly making a monkey of the police and the courts, and we should expect someone to do something about it.

A Chief Constable perhaps? A Procurator Fiscal? The Crown Prosecution Service?

These facts have been known in some quarters for months - so what did the Westminster parliament do about it?

They awarded the newspapers' owners the authority to take control of an even bigger bite of the broadcast media of course! Surely there is a minister of justice, somewhere, big enough to take on this damned organisation and give it the hiding it deserves.

David Fiddimore

Calton Road

Edinburgh