30 November 2011

Leveson Inquiry: Hearings - Day 10

LEVESON INQUIRY:CULTURE, PRACTICE AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS

"I want this inquiry to mean something", not end up as "footnote in some professor of journalism's analysis of 21 century history." LJ Leveson in reply to A Rusbridger's submission to Inquiry.
Lord Justice Leveson
 
The Panel : top row (left to right)

  • Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty
  • George Jones, former Daily Telegraph political editor
  • Sir David Bell, former chairman of the Financial Times
Bottom row (Left to right)
  • Elinor Goodman, former Channel 4 political editor
  • Lord David Currie, former chairman of Ofcom
  • Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former West Midlands chief constable
  The proceedings are shown here live on the Leveson Inquiry website. 

BBC Democracy Live Leveson Inquiry live-feed here.

Full list of Core Participants to be found here. (Guardian Website)

Relevant links from mainstream media, blogs and social media:



(Twitter feed for Leveson Inquiry on right of Home page of this (#pressreform) blog.) 

Leveson Inquiry Witness List - Week beginning 28.11.11 

Leveson Inquiry Witness Statements  


Videos of Each Hearing on Official Leveson Inquiry Website



Follow Leveson Inquiry on Twitter - #leveson #Leveson 

Follow Journalist Dan Sabbagh on Twitter - here

Guardian Live Blog


Guardian Leveson Inquiry Round-up Page

BBC News - Yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry



Telegraph - Today at the Leveson Inquiry


Independent - Today at the Leveson Inquiry


MSN Live - Leveson Inquiry 

 

Sunday November 27th: Blogger Leaks Witness Statement 3 Days Early - Story Here (Guardian)
Lord Justice Leveson Reacts - Statement Here
 

Copy of Restriction Order pertaining to the publishing of a witness statement ahead of time


Guido Summoned by Leveson Over Campbell Leak - Press Gazette 

Leveson Inquiry Debates Guido Fawkes' Leak - Journalism.co.uk


Cocking a Snook at Regulators - Paul Bernal, the Justice Gap 


Has the Sun Given the Full Picture on Anne Diamond's Evidence? - Full Fact

Leveson Order Over Guido Fawkes Leak Raises Questions - Joshua Rozenberg - Guardian


Paul McMullan Lays Bare Newspaper Dark Arts at Leveson Inquiry - Guardian

New Statesman - Paul McMullan and the Denial of Privacy - David Allen Green

Zelo Street: Leveson is Served (6)

Today:-
Former News of the World Reporter Bethany Usher Arrested in Phone-hacking Probe - Telegraph 
Teeside Lecturer Arrested in Phone-hacking Inquiry - Times Higher Education
BBC News - Phone-hacking: Woman Held in Media Probe
From January 2006 - Reporter Arrested at Buckingham Palace - Independent 
 



Wednesday November 30th 2011 (Hearing 9 record of Leveson Inquiry on this blog can be found here )


T Portilho-Shrimpton
Caplan says they're prepared to remove the mendacious smears from Mail Online until the evidence is called before


List of Witnesses today:  Alastair Campbell,  Alexander Owens,  Mark Lewis


Alastair Campbell













Witness Statement in Full


From BBC News Website:
'Arguably he has been the most famous press secretary the UK has ever seen. Mr Campbell was appointed as Tony Blair's official spokesman in 1994.
His career in the media continued successfully and he soon became political editor of the Daily Mirror.
During this time he was also one of then Labour leader Neil Kinnock's closest advisers.


Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair
Campbell's closeness to Blair has angered many critics

It was from that post which Mr Campbell resigned to become spokesman for Tony Blair, then leader of the opposition.
With the Labour election victory in 1997, he became the prime minister's chief press secretary, setting up a formidable Whitehall machine to put over the government's views and try to control the news agenda.
In 2000 Mr Campbell gave up daily briefings to Westminster lobby journalists to concentrate more on long-term strategy.
It was a move prompted by the fear that he, rather than his boss, was becoming the focus of media stories.'


From Guardian Live Blog, Campbell opens his evidence with:

'The freedom of the press that is being defended most loudly, Campbell says, has become a press "barely worth defending".He says at the moment the press is "frankly putrid in many of its elements".
"A very very small number of people have changed the newspaper industry so they've now frankly besmirched the name of every journalist in the country."'
 Full Text ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair's 'Feral Beast' Speech on the Press and Media in general - BBC News Website

Post from Tabloid Watch Blog mentioned in Alastair Campbell's evidence to leveson Inquiry: MailOnline Makes up Events, Quotesfrom Perugia

The Commentator - What Leveson Should Ask Campbell This Morning - by Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes) 

Campbell on use of Private Investigators from Guardian Live Blog

BBC News - Alastair Campbell Says Journalism Has Become 'Putrid' 

Zelo Street: Mail Leaps the Logic Barrier

Campbell: Mirror Paid PI to Investigate Me and Mandelson - Journalism.co.uk 

Alastair Campbell 'Threatened by NI Executives Over Phone-hacking' - Guardian 

Alastair Campbell: Phone Hacking May Have Revealed Cherie Blair's Pregnancy - Guardian

I Thought the Alastair Campbell at the Leveson Inquiry Was an Impersonator - by an Ex-News of the World Politics Assistant Editor - Total Politics Blog
From Guardian Live Blog:
1.33pm: Here's a summary of Alastair Campbell's appearance before the Leveson inquiry:
• Alastair Campbell alleges that the Daily Mirror paid private eyes to investigate him and Peter Mandelson
• He describes a "frankly putrid" press with some sections "barely worth defending"
• The PCC has failed because it is "of the press and for the press", Campbell claims
• He suggests an arbitration body to replace the PCC that could advise on public interest


Ross Hawkins
Alastair Campbell at : Dacre had team of people pretending to write book about AC, because Express had serialisation of a bio

Hacked off
AC: Only time I got apology from Mail was when they reported about impact my father's death had on me. My father was alive.




Alec Owens

  












Witness Statement in Full 
Supplementary Witness Statement in Full


From Independent, November 19th 2011:

"Alec Owens, formerly of Merseyside Police, was the lead investigator for the Information Commissioner's "Operation Motorman" inquiry, which uncovered the vast scale on which the media used private detectives to obtain private information, including criminal records and vehicle registrations.
But he is a critic of the ICO's decision not to interview any of the hundreds of journalists named in the 17,000 transactions listed in files seized from Hampshire private detective Steve Whittamore in 2003. No journalist was charged in Operation Motorman.
Mr Owens contacted Lord Justice Leveson about his concerns over the way the matter was handled and is due to give evidence in person to the public inquiry on media standards on 30 November. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner at the time of Operation Motorman, will appear before the inquiry the next day.
At 7.25am yesterday, two police officers from Wilmslow, Cheshire, armed with with a search warrant, knocked on Mr Owens' door. They demanded documents and electronic files and asked him to come to a police station to be questioned under caution.
Cheshire Police said it had acted "following information received". A spokeswoman added: "The warrant relates to an investigation into allegations concerning breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998."
Mr Owens agreed to hand over his copy of the Operation Motorman computer file but declined to provide the statement he has prepared for Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry. He was asked to attend an interview on Monday and bring the statement with him.
Mr Owens, who has notified Lord Justice Leveson's office of the development, said he believed the raid was connected to his inquiry evidence. "They have come on a fishing expedition to find out what I'm going to say," he said. "But I have told them that statement is for Lord Leveson's eyes only at this stage."
 From Guardian Live Blog:
Alec Owens is at the witness stand. Find a short profile earlier in the liveblog, here.

Live Blog of Alec Owen's Evidence from Guardian Live Blog

Details from Independent on Steve Whittamore - a subject of Alec Owens' evidence today

Exposed After Eight Years: a Private Eye's Dirty Work For Fleet Street - the Independent
(This Article when it appeared, as Alec Owens says he knew it would, resulted in a raid from the Police to confiscate documents and evidence he was holding.)

Jon Slattery: Independent Lifts Lid on Operation Motorman Files - 17 000 Requests Made by Journalists to Private Detectives

From Guardian Live Blog: 3.11 p.m.
"Owens says the Hell's Angel that Paul McMullan mentioned yesterday was the investigator who could get numbers for Whittamore and Glenn Mulcaire.He says the evidence they compiled as part of Operation Motorman was "strong enough to stand on its own" and be used to prosecute journalists. Some journalists were using Whittamore 300 or 400 times, Owens says."

Ben Fenton
Farrer (NI lawyer) document says: "It is pretty clear to us that Lewis is source of (original) Guardian story."

Ben Fenton
ICO sd S.Times had 1 reporter making 4 requests. Owens says it was six reporters making more than 100 requests NI dispute numbers.

T Portilho-Shrimpton
Owens: ICO reports says there were 3,500 or 3,700 requests. From what he's seen there were actually about 17,500

Andy Davies
Ex detective Owens: ICO's Richard Thomas's explanation as to why no journalist was ever prosecuted was misleading.

Andy Davies
Owens: Journalists never came into the investigation (ie were never questioned).

Keir Simmons
Former police officer Alex Owens says in 2003 he was told 'you're not to go near the press'... 'I said, you're joking?'


Sharon Patrick
Owens during a search of a detective agency in london, they seized docs relating to car registration numbers




Mark Lewis















 Supplementary Witness Statement of Mark Lewis

From the Guardian Live Blog at 9.39 a.m.:
'A late addition to today's line up is Mark Lewis, solicitor for several alleged victims of phone hacking, who will give the second part of his evidence after first appearing last Wednesday.
Lewis is thought to have a second witness statement that is highly controversial. He was not able to complete his testimony last week after it was challenged by Jonathan Caplan QC, counsel for Associated Newspapers, and other barristers.'

Audioboo/'News International Sought to Destroy My Life' - Lawyer at Leveson - BBCPeterHunt


Legal Week
Dowler family lawyer Mark Lewis describes 'horrific moment' when he was shown secretly filmed videos of his daughters

From Guardian Live Blog:
"That was horrific. That was truly horrific, that my daughter was videod, was followed by a detective with a camera. Just followed. That shouldn't happen to anybody's child ... I do my job, I don't expect my children to be followed. Not just one of my daugthers, all my daughters. They ought to be ashamed of themselves."
"News International sought to destroy my life and very nearly succeeded," says Lewis.The solicitor has been shown video of his 14-year-old daughter who was being followed on behalf of News International.
A dossier was compiled by Julian Pike, of Farrars solicitors, in early 2010 on the relationship between Lewis and Charlotte Harris, another solicitor acting for some phone hacking victims.
Lewis talks of "complete arrogance and idiocy" by Pike and Tom Crone, the News of the World lawyer, who thought that Lewis had leaked information to the Guardian. "So they set out to destroy my life," he says."

Ben Fenton
Rupert Murdoch wanted to set up R Murdoch fund for children to go to private school in memory of Milly D,solicitor Lewis tells

News International Offers Milly Dowler's Family £3m Settlement - Guardian - 20th September 2011 

Hacked off
Lewis, Harris and Mark Thomson considered to be the three driving forces of exposing the phone hacking scandal

Legal Week
Mark Lewis: "News Group Newspapers wanted to pay for a client to sue me, even though the client had not proposed to sue me"

T Portilho-Shrimpton
"Gregory said we would need to develop a body of evidence against him (Lewis)". (News Group conspiring to stop Lewis from acting)

Keir Simmons
Phone hacking lawyer Mark Lewis about to give evidence and inquiry told he has handed over documents mostly from News International

T Portilho-Shrimpton
Davies: Harris' source for that document is anonymous. Other docs correspondence between NI and Farrers (lawyers)

29 November 2011

Leveson Inquiry: Hearings - Day 9

LEVESON INQUIRY:CULTURE, PRACTICE AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS

"I want this inquiry to mean something", not end up as "footnote in some professor of journalism's analysis of 21 century history." LJ Leveson in reply to A Rusbridger's submission to Inquiry.
Lord Justice Leveson

The Panel : top row (left to right)
  • Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty
  • George Jones, former Daily Telegraph political editor
  • Sir David Bell, former chairman of the Financial Times
Bottom row (Left to right)
  • Elinor Goodman, former Channel 4 political editor
  • Lord David Currie, former chairman of Ofcom
  • Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former West Midlands chief constable
  The proceedings are shown here live on the Leveson Inquiry website. 
BBC Democracy Live Leveson Inquiry live-feed here.

Full list of Core Participants to be found here. (Guardian Website)

Relevant links from mainstream media, blogs and social media:



(Twitter feed for Leveson Inquiry on right of Home page of this (#pressreform) blog.) 

Leveson Inquiry Witness List - Week beginning 28.11.11 

Leveson Inquiry Witness Statements  


Videos of Each Hearing on Official Leveson Inquiry Website


Follow Leveson Inquiry on Twitter - #leveson #Leveson

Guardian Live Blog

Phone-hacking Victim (HJK) Implicates Unnamed Newspaper - Press Gazette 



Sunday November 27th: Blogger Leaks Witness Statement 3 Days Early - Story Here (Guardian)
Lord Justice Leveson Reacts - Statement Here
 
Copy of Restriction Order pertaining to the publishing of a witness statement ahead of time


Guido Summoned by Leveson Over Campbell Leak - Press Gazette 

Leveson Inquiry Debates Guido Fawkes' Leak - Journalism.co.uk

Cocking a Snook at Regulators - Paul Bernal, the Justice Gap 

Has the Sun Given the Full Picture on Anne Diamond's Evidence? - Full Fact

Leveson Order Over Guido Fawkes Leak Raises Questions - Joshua Rozenberg - Guardian



Tuesday November 29th 2011 (Hearing 8 record of Leveson Inquiry on this blog can be found here )

Today's witnesses:  Nick Davies, Paul McMullan, Richard Peppiatt

Profiles of today's witnesses : BBC News


Nick Davies













Full Witness Statement

From the Guardian Website:

"Nick Davies is the bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media, and a former Journalist of the Year"
Video - Nick Davies on Phone-hacking, Murdoch and News of the World - Guardian

Nick Davies - Wikipedia 

BBC News - Journalists Addressing Media Enquiry 

Guardian Live Blog of the Evidence Given by Witnesses Today

Video clip - BBC News - Guardian's Nick Davies Calls Reluctantly for End to Self-Regulation


Davies: Journalists, Not Mulcaire Hacked Milly Dowler - Press Gazette

Nick Davies Attacks Press Complaints Commission - Guardian

Jeremy Hunt Hints at Demise of the PCC - Guardian

Highlights: Nick Davies Tells Leveson Inquiry Self-regulation 'Hasn't Worked' - Hacked Off
 



Gavan Reilly

"I was one of those who spoke up for self-regulation... I wouldn't any more." - at



Paul McMullan













Witness Statement Not yet Published on Leveson Inquiry Website 

From the Guardian Website:

"Former News of the World deputy features editor Paul McMullan has garnered little public support for the hack's cause while trying to defend the trade in heated TV exchanges with the likes of Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan. In his new stomping ground of Kent, he's not having much luck either, reports the Indy."


Video - Paul McMullan on BBC Newsnight 'Not a Big Deal' - Former News of the World Reporter on Phone-hacking

Video - BBC News - Hugh Grant Speaking About His Revealing Conversation With Paul McMullan 

Audioboo/Paul McMullan on a Culture of Illegality - from @lisaocarroll

BBC News - Journalists Addressing Media Enquiry 

Video of Paul McMullan in Interview in Holland Speaking About the Milly Dowler Phone-hacking 

Live Blog of Paul McMullan's Evidence from Guardian

Beginning his Evidence, McMullan announced that he was at journalism college with Michael Gove. McMullan is 'proud' of the fact that he came out near the top of the class and Michael Gove near the bottom.

Wikipedia Page of Denholm Elliott, and Mention of McMullan's Link with His Daughter - (McMullan Was Asked About this Story Today at the Leveson Inquiry) 

McMullan: 'Hacking of Milly Phone Was Honourable' - Press Gazette 

'Coulson Brought Hacking Wholesale to NotW' - Press Gazette


Video - Paul McMullan: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson Knew About Phone-hacking' - Telegraph

BBC News - Video - Ex NotW Journalist 'Proud of Causing a Riot'

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson Are 'Scum of Journalism', Leveson Told - Guardian 

Paul McMullan: 'Obvious Coulson Knew About hacking' - Journalism.co.uk 

Former NotW Editor Unapologetic About hacking - AM - (Australian Radio Station)



Zoe Timmers

Staggering honesty from on Denham Elliott's daughter & what article may have led to.'I went too far on that story'.

Keir Simmons

Paul McMullan claims police officer asked for 30,000 pounds to tell them where Princess Diana was.  
Keir Simmons

Paul McMullan says NoW phone rang all the time 'It is the British public that were supplying us with the vast majority of stories for money'




Richard Peppiatt















 Full Witness Statement

 From the Guardian Website - March 2011


"In a resignation letter, Richard Peppiatt said he was leaving after the Star gave sympathetic coverage to the far-right English Defence League last month.
Peppiatt admits producing a number of fictional stories about celebrities during his two years at the tabloid, a practice he implies was sanctioned by his seniors.
The reporter, who was once made to dress up in a burqa, now accuses the paper of inciting racial tensions and Islamaphobia. "You may have heard the phrase 'the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil sets off a tornado in Texas'," Peppiatt wrote to the proprietor, Richard Desmond, in a letter seen by the Guardian."

Full Copy of Richard Peppiatt's Resignation Letter to Richard Desmond on Leaving the Express Newspaper - Guardian

Video - Richard Peppiatt - Do We Get the Press We Deserve? - 4thought.tv


Daily Star Reporter resigns With a Stinging Letter to Desmond - Minority Thought Blog

The Mail Was 'As Dirty As Anyone' - New Statesman

Daily Star: Airports Facing Turban Warfare (mentioned today) 

BBC News - Journalists Addressing Media Enquiry 

Richard Peppiatt: My Phone Was hacked by Tabloid Figure' - Press Gazette



james robinson
Peppiatt: facts selected to fit ideological outlook of paper

Article in Daily Star Mentioned Today bt Richard Peppiatt

Hacked off
Peppiatt: calls from readers a barometer of what was popular, eg phone poll on EDL got over 2000 calls, a lot (often <10)

Story in Daily Star Mentioned by R Peppiatt
 Ruling by PCC against Daily Star


Hacked off
Peppiatt: any journalist who reads the Daily Star will see a lot of it has come from Daily Mail the day before, same lines taken

Hacked off
Peppiatt: most of tabloid journalism not a truth-seeking enterprise, much of it ideologically driven, sensationalise & sell paper

Ross Hawkins
Richard Peppiatt at : made up story about Kelly Brook for £150 bonus
Story About Kelly Brook in Daily Star Mentioned Today by Richard Peppiatt
 

james robinson
Peppiatt: Pseudonyms used at Star to disguise fact paper has very few reporters include 'Laura Neil' and 'Jack Bell'

28 November 2011

Leveson Inquiry: Hearings - Day 8

LEVESON INQUIRY:CULTURE, PRACTICE AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS

"I want this inquiry to mean something", not end up as "footnote in some professor of journalism's analysis of 21 century history." LJ Leveson in reply to A Rusbridger's submission to Inquiry.
Lord Justice Leveson

The Panel : top row (left to right)
  • Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty
  • George Jones, former Daily Telegraph political editor
  • Sir David Bell, former chairman of the Financial Times
Bottom row (Left to right)
  • Elinor Goodman, former Channel 4 political editor
  • Lord David Currie, former chairman of Ofcom
  • Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former West Midlands chief constable
  The proceedings are shown here live on the Leveson Inquiry website. 
BBC Democracy Live Leveson Inquiry live-feed here.

Full list of Core Participants to be found here. (Guardian Website)

Relevant links from mainstream media, blogs and social media:


(Twitter feed for Leveson Inquiry on right of Home page of this (#pressreform) blog.) 

Leveson Inquiry Witness List - Week beginning 28.11.11 

Leveson Inquiry Witness Statements  

Monday, November 28th  2011 (Hearing 7  record of  Leveson Inquiry on this blog can be found here.)


Guido Summoned by Leveson Over Campbell Leak - Press Gazette 

Leveson Inquiry Debates Guido Fawkes' Leak - Journalism.co.uk

Cocking a Snook at Regulators - Paul Bernal, the Justice Gap 

Intercepted Intelligence Could Not Have Been Published, Said Witness - Independent




Profiles of today's witnesses here.



Charlotte Church


















"Church, a former child star who entertained Queen Elizabeth, pope John Paul II and US president Bill Clinton, is due to give evidence about the alleged phone hacking of her family."
 Live blog of Charlotte Church' Evidence to Leveson Inquiry from Guardian 

BBC News - Charlotte Church Sang At Murdoch Wedding to Get Good Press

Audioboo/ Charlotte Church on Being Told Her Phone Was Hacked - @joshhalliday 

Charlotte Church 'Waived Fee For Good Press' - Channel 4 News 

BBC News - Charlotte Church on 'Horrific' Story On Father's Affair - Video 

They'd Built Charlotte Up, and Felt They Could Knock Her Down - Guardian

From Guardian Live Blog 30th November 2011:

"The Financial Times is reporting that the bombshell deal for Charlotte Church to sing at the wedding of Rupert Murdoch in exchange for £100,000 or favourable converage was brokered by Matthew Freud, Murdoch's son-in-law.The FT reports:
Jonathan Shalit, Ms Church's manager until 2000, told the Financial Times that the proposal had come in a "very relaxed" call from Mr Freud, but that no payment had been offered. The promise of favourable coverage was explicit, he said, "but done in a warm, friendly, positive way. There was nothing sinister about it.
"In return, it was understood the Murdoch publications would support Charlotte in the US," Mr Shalit said. "In the same way a plumber might do a favour for an accountant and the accountant might do a favour in return, I think it's totally acceptable business practice. That's life," he added."


Hacked off
PA told Church they wouldn't publish because their consumers didn't like to hear anything negative about them or their conduct

Hacked off
Press Association contacted Church back after she released statement refuting karaoke story.

james robinson
Church very critical of Sunday Times piece which claimed she had said 9 11 firemen 'just doing their jobs'

Catherine Wylie
Church and her mother both wanted to take the £100k but were advised to take the favour instead.

T Portilho-Shrimpton
Church, when was 13, was offered either £100k or to be "looked upon favourably" by Murdoch's newspapers to sing at his wedding

Peter Hunt
Charlotte Church: never been on a holiday since age of 16 when not found and photographed

T Portilho-Shrimpton
Church says she decided to give evidence to inquiry because of her experiences with press from the age of 12


Anne Diamond













From her Blog on the BBC Website:

Anne Diamond | 13:52 UK time, Wednesday, 6 July 2011

...I'd like to know how the papers got hold of certain information.
There have, over the years, as you can imagine, been several incidents where I've had a call from a newspaper reporter who's said things that have gobsmacked me. After you've got over the shock that someone seems to know more about you than, well...you, you sit down in surprise and try to work out "how on earth could they know that?" even if it wasn't entirely true.
One in particular was about a mortgage deal, and I hadn't even discussed it with my family or advisers or anyone. Absolutely no-one knew but the mortgage company and me. And when the deal came through, they left a message for me on my mobile.
Now I'm wondering - unless someone in the mortgage company decided to squeal to the press - phone hacking could well be an explanation. The reporter knew all of the facts - exact sums of money, everything.



Andy Davies
Anne Diamond claims she was targeted by Murdoch empire after she confronted RM in an interview.





Ian Hurst













Witness Statement in Full

From The Daily Beast here:
"His codename was “Stakeknife,” (ed.: about an informant) and for more than 20 years he’s said to have served the British security services as a highly prized mole in the upper ranks of the IRA, providing intelligence to the British army in its struggle against terrorism in Northern Ireland. A swirl of allegations surrounds his activities, including charges that others were killed to prevent his exposure as a double agent.
Now Stakeknife and the murky world of counter-terrorism—as well as the British police—are under the glare of media scrutiny. In a new twist to the story of wrongdoing at News International, Scotland Yard has broadened its inquiries to look specifically at whether journalists authorized private investigators to hack into computers as well as phones. The most prominent alleged victim so far: the British undercover officer who ran Stakeknife. 
According to the BBC, the monitoring of Hurst’s computer was sanctioned in 2006 by Alex Marunchak, then the editor of the Irish edition of The News of the World, who was looking for more information on Scappaticci—even though the publication of his whereabouts or appearance was forbidden under the terms of a High Court injunction. Marunchak has denied the allegation."

Mark White
Hurst says Met Police were aware his computer had been hacked in early 2007, but chose not to inform him til this year

T Portilho-Shrimpton
Hurst did interview for Panorama programme on NoW alleged phone and computer hacking, shown in March 2011

Ben Fenton
tells his role was to recruit Republican double agents. Has retained informal links with intel community.


Christopher Jefferies













Witness Statement in full

From the BBC News website here:
"The landlord of Jo Yeates has said he is reaching the point where he can get on with his life again.
Christopher Jefferies, who lived in the flat above the Bristol landscape architect, sued several newspapers for their "lurid" coverage of his arrest on suspicion of her murder.
He also criticised plans to change the law on no-win, no-fee cases, which he said would have stopped him from suing.

Mr Jefferies, who lived above Miss Yeates and her boyfriend Greg Reardon in Canynge Road, Clifton, was arrested on suspicion of murder on 30 December.
He spent three days in police custody and was eventually released from police bail in March.

Mr Jefferies accepted an apology and "substantial" libel damages from the Sun, Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Record, Daily Express, Daily Star and the Scotsman for their coverage after his arrest.
The former English teacher also told the programme of his dismay at government plans to reform "no-win, no-fee" conditional fee agreements."

Christopher Jefferies Giving Evidence Today


Transcript of Christopher Jefferies' Interview With BBC Radio 4 - From Hacked Off website

Joanna Yeates' Landlord Describes 'Vilification' By Press - Journalism.co.uk


Jefferies Will Never Recover From 'Reckless' Coverage - Press Gazette

BBC News - Leveson Inquiry: Media Vilified Me - Christopher Jefferies Says


Catherine Wylie
Jefferies' appearance in court 73 is confident and comfortable. He is controlled but his anger at press behaviour is clear.


Dan Sabbagh
Jefferies - "I can see now that following my arrest the national media shamelessly vilified me". It was a "witch hunt"


T Portilho-Shrimpton
Jay mentions Jo Yeates' bf's statement in which he mentions character assassination of innocent man. That part was never reported


Jane Winter














Witness Statement in Full

Northern Ireland Human Rights Campaigner whose evidence is linked to that given today by Ian Hurst.

Guardian Live Blog of Jane Winter's Evidence Today 


IndexLeveson
Winter says emails & the attachments she sent Hurst that were hacked were "very confidential & sensitive".