Grant settled a privacy claim against NGN last year, but on Friday said that civil cases have only allowed Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers to "game" their way out of real punishment.

Hugh Grant has called for the U.K. police to open a new criminal investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers. The actor joins a growing chorus of people who, in the wake of Prince Harry’s historical settlement with the company - which included admissions of guilt into phone hacking at The Sun newspaper - are now calling

The conservative media mogul’s British newspapers division, known as News Group Newspapers (NGN), offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life,