Damien

That would be quite significant! Not only because it meant he would have lied to the committee but because that e-mail would be the smoking gun in this whole thing as far as James Murdoch is concerned. The e-mail was a list of transcribed voicemail messages sent to the senior reporter at the News of the World, it is the proof that voicemail interception was common place at the paper and not the work of one lone reporter.

Murdock and the executives at News International have maintained they never saw this e-mail until after the New York Times article at which point they handed it over the police.

This is pretty critical because if he had seen the e-mail at the time, then he was aware of criminal activity at the paper and didn't call in the police. Rather they paid Gordon Taylor quite a large amount. An amount which suggests it was hush money.

It's the cover up that gets you.