Will Lewis, shortlisted to be the next head of the BBC, accused of destroying evidence of phone hacking at the News of the World and the Sun
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The 51-year-old is one of four people being considered to replace Lord Hall as director general of the BBC. In July 2011 he was appointed to the management standards committee, which was set up to assist the police who were investigating phone hacking and payments by journalists to public officials. It alleges that Mr Lewis knew of and had authorised a delay and suppression of evidence, and the targeted deletions of senior executives' emails.
1. Mr Lewis was part of the senior management which organised or allowed extensive deletions of millions of emails to take place without preserving back-ups, in September 2010 and in January and February 2011, even though he was aware of the need to preserve data for the civil claims, which were in full swing by the time of his arrival in September 2010, and by the second week of January 2011, the live police investigation .
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