The full scale of a nationwide policy to bug British jails can be disclosed today after a whistleblower revealed that hundreds of lawyers and prison visitors had been secretly recorded
According to the paper,this is part of a policy that has been ongoing since the 9/11 attacks and human rights lawyers visiting those suspected of links to terrorism have been routinely bugged.
However it appears to go further than that with claims that the Soham killer Ian Huntley was also subject to surveilence.
Secret microphones were alleged to have been hidden in specially adapted prison visiting tables in the divide between prisoner and visitor. The "bugging tables" were regularly moved between rooms and within the visiting areas in an attempt to prevent lawyers becoming suspicious. By 2007, there were understood to have been six tables in operation.
If true this is goig to prove embarassing for the government.
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