:00:03. > :00:10.inquiry. Among this week Widnes's were Alastair Campbell and
:00:10. > :00:18.Charlotte Church. -- witnesses. News International sought to
:00:18. > :00:28.destroy my life. The press has become putrid. I felt proud that I
:00:28. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:33.had created something that had The grieving mother is she was
:00:33. > :00:38.emotionally blackmailed by a tabloid. The innocent men, driven
:00:38. > :00:41.into hiding by the press. The teenage girls taught full-time by
:00:41. > :00:46.photographers. They are not the sort of stories you normally read
:00:46. > :00:51.in the papers, but it has taken an inquiry to turn them into headline
:00:51. > :00:55.news. An inquiry that began its eight-day with a man you may
:00:55. > :01:00.remember. Christopher Jefferies, arrested after the murder of Joanna
:01:00. > :01:05.Yeates. He was her landlord. In fact, you may remember as some of
:01:05. > :01:14.the stories written about him. headline is, the strange Mr
:01:14. > :01:18.Jefferies. Loot, made sexual remarks. What you may not have
:01:18. > :01:28.heard about it is the libel pay-out made from eight of the papers and
:01:28. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:42.man was entirely innocent. sliding of the reporting was
:01:42. > :01:50.intended its to be as sensational, exploitative titillating - to
:01:50. > :01:54.appeal in every possible way 82 people's for realistic instincts. -
:01:54. > :02:00.- appealed. All the stories and photos had left him instantly
:02:00. > :02:07.recognisable and pursued. In effect, for a period after I was released,
:02:07. > :02:13.I was effectively under house arrest. It went from friends to
:02:13. > :02:23.France, rather as if I were eight rapid and priest at the time of the
:02:23. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:31.Reformation. -- rapid and priests. Certainly the couple of months
:02:31. > :02:41.immediately preceding that, while I was still under suspicion, without
:02:41. > :02:49.doubt, the most difficult period I think I have spent giving this
:02:49. > :02:56.existence. My life, in effect, was on hold. Christopher Jefferies as
:02:56. > :03:02.an agent to deal with the media now. When he first fell under suspicion,
:03:02. > :03:09.finding about him was simple stuff. This inquiry heard that they were
:03:09. > :03:13.hi-tech methods to follow others. In Hirst has been Hayne
:03:13. > :03:21.intelligence agent. When the news that wanted to get to him, be used
:03:21. > :03:26.any Nell attachment known as a Trojan. -- e-mail. All documents
:03:27. > :03:35.that he could access by the backdoor Trojan. They could access
:03:35. > :03:45.e-mails, hydrides. -- hard drives. Th Thhat we have identified
:03:45. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:53.would have allowed the Web can to or my kids. He was shown a fax of
:03:53. > :03:58.an e-mail sent to the news back of this and other paperwork. Documents
:03:58. > :04:04.that clearly show that line, and specifically, my wife's information
:04:04. > :04:13.had been access. My wife is a nurse and they had obtained her CV, a PIN
:04:13. > :04:19.number and other associated documents. He quoted his
:04:20. > :04:26.explanation of events. I think this sums it up - then again, when all
:04:26. > :04:31.this was happening, Andy Coulson was the editor and he is big house
:04:31. > :04:39.with a lot of powerful people, including top police officers. That
:04:39. > :04:44.is exactly what you are dealing with here. Separately, later in the
:04:44. > :04:51.big, the Labour MP to paint confirmed he had met police
:04:51. > :04:54.officers about alleged hacking to his computers. The press had been
:04:54. > :04:58.interested in Charlotte Church since she was just 11 years old,
:04:58. > :05:04.when she was branded as having the Voice Of An Angel. As she grew
:05:04. > :05:10.older, the papers were eager to suggest that the Angel had fallen.
:05:10. > :05:14.Basically, it was on the Sun's website. It was a countdown clock
:05:15. > :05:23.that ran for more than a month. It was a countdown clock to my 16th
:05:23. > :05:31.birthday. The innuendo of the age of my passing of consent, where I
:05:31. > :05:36.could have sex. It was a little Bizarre. After speculating about
:05:36. > :05:45.the sex life of the teenager, they bought and then publish the details.
:05:45. > :05:55.Why is it OK that an editor of someone seen me in a newspaper
:05:55. > :05:56.
:05:56. > :06:01.could pay an employee in Cardiff tens of thousands of pounds to get
:06:01. > :06:07.details about a 17-year-old girl. When she got pregnant, papers
:06:07. > :06:16.reported rumours of the news before she had told her parents. My family
:06:16. > :06:20.were really upset at that I had not told them first. Surely it is any
:06:20. > :06:27.woman's right to tell her family or a loved one's when she feels the
:06:27. > :06:32.time is appropriate. It was mine used to tell. That opportunity was
:06:32. > :06:39.taken away from me. And she failed to provide a scandal, they printed
:06:39. > :06:41.stories about her family instead. want to read the first line of the
:06:41. > :06:46.article, superstar Charlotte Church's mum tried to kill her son
:06:46. > :06:53.because her husband is a love rat who is hooked on cocaine. -- kill
:06:54. > :07:00.herself. You can imagine what followed it. It was basically just
:07:00. > :07:07.totally sensationalised. Whether partially or wholly true, I just
:07:08. > :07:17.really hated the fact that my parents, who had never been in this
:07:17. > :07:23.industry, were being exposed and vilified in this fashion. It had a
:07:23. > :07:29.massive impact on my family life. It had an impact on my mother's
:07:29. > :07:33.help. The News of the World had reported on it before then. They
:07:33. > :07:37.had reported on hospital treatment. She alleged when she was asked to
:07:37. > :07:42.sing at Rupert Murdoch's wedding, she is guaranteed to be looked at
:07:42. > :07:47.favourably in his newspapers instead of a �100,000 fee.
:07:47. > :07:55.remember being 13 and wondering why on earth anyone would take a favour
:07:55. > :07:59.over �100,000. We were quite resolute on this point. We were
:07:59. > :08:03.being advised by management and certain members of the record
:08:03. > :08:08.company to take the better option. He was a very powerful men and
:08:08. > :08:12.others in the early stages of my career and could do with a favour
:08:12. > :08:19.of this magnitude. international denied that happened.
:08:19. > :08:22.Anne Diamond, has presented television programmes. It was much
:08:22. > :08:27.darker and private time that cemented her relationship with the
:08:27. > :08:34.papers. It was when she lost her baby, a victim of cot death.
:08:34. > :08:38.female reporter tried to brush the door. She rang the door, which I
:08:38. > :08:45.was not answering. Friends of the family were in with us by then. She
:08:45. > :08:50.rang the doorbell and she had a big bouquet of flowers to give us. When
:08:50. > :08:55.the door had to be taken of the chain in order to accept the
:08:55. > :09:02.flowers, she rushed in. She pleaded with newspaper editors to stay away
:09:02. > :09:12.from the funeral. Every one of them did. Except that on the day of our
:09:12. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:31.little boy's funeral, held at a remote country church, there was a
:09:32. > :09:37.photographer on the public highway. He was standing on the road. He
:09:37. > :09:42.made a point of standing on the road. He had a very long lens, the
:09:42. > :09:45.sort of one they used to use on Princess Diana. We were aware they
:09:45. > :09:49.were taking photographs. After one of those voters was printed on the
:09:49. > :09:53.front of the Sun, the paper wanted her to back a campaign to raise
:09:53. > :09:58.money for research into cot death. They said it would look bad if she
:09:58. > :10:03.didn't. I put emotionally blackmailed by the people who I
:10:03. > :10:09.thought I just trampled all over our dignity, all over their child's
:10:09. > :10:15.grave. Anne Diamond writes the papers has of birth. She recently
:10:15. > :10:19.wrote an article on Dawn French's weight loss. She was asked if that
:10:19. > :10:22.was sceptical. She said she thought it was. The article was at least
:10:22. > :10:30.accurate. Unlike some of the headlines the inquiry heard about
:10:30. > :10:36.on a nine. Headlines in the stark as described by a former reporter.
:10:36. > :10:45.Chile nine to open a theme park. Angelina Jolie two places and boil
:10:45. > :10:50.in film. Bubbles to give evidence at Michael Jackson trial. Jade's
:10:50. > :10:55.back in a big brother, she was dead at the time. But then, accuracy, he
:10:55. > :11:03.said was not the main concern. The Daily Star is a right-wing tabloid.
:11:03. > :11:09.They have a political perspective on certain issues. For example,
:11:09. > :11:19.immigration or national security or policing. And so, whenever a story
:11:19. > :11:20.
:11:20. > :11:28.may be, you must try and get here Like a tailor that Muslims planning
:11:28. > :11:33.to hide bombs in their turbans. has already been decided their feet
:11:33. > :11:41.story is running. You say that a security source said it and then
:11:41. > :11:48.run a bunch of sources which are made up at the top of my head. You
:11:48. > :11:52.then need to get some sort of official quote. I called off the
:11:52. > :11:56.director of the theatre of a Sikh organisation and it so that we are
:11:56. > :12:05.hearing that Muslims are planning to disguise themselves. What you
:12:05. > :12:12.think of this? You add this veneer of legitimacy. You have got your
:12:12. > :12:18.story. This report has had a longer, very different career. He broke the
:12:19. > :12:28.story that merely down it -- nearly Milly Dowler's phone has been
:12:29. > :12:32.
:12:32. > :12:37.hacked. Our understanding of the facts is that it was news of the
:12:37. > :12:41.will that journalists who hacked and deleted the phone. Glenn
:12:41. > :12:46.Mulcaire, the private detective, has tonight deleting the voice
:12:46. > :12:50.messages himself. But this journalist thinks that change needs
:12:50. > :12:55.to come. I do not trust this industry to regulate itself. I love
:12:55. > :13:02.reporting. I want this to be free. You have a massive intellectual
:13:02. > :13:10.puzzle. How it invigilate a free press? It obviously does not work.
:13:10. > :13:20.-- you regulate? Not all journalists share this view of the
:13:20. > :13:21.
:13:21. > :13:29.trade. Some have been regarded as settled fact. It was wrong to Hak
:13:29. > :13:35.Milly Dowler's phone. But one witness questioned and all that.
:13:35. > :13:42.Mes Paul McMullan. He was a features editor. He was given to
:13:42. > :13:51.saying it as he sees it. Hatching in Milly Dowler's phone was not a
:13:51. > :14:01.bad thing for the journalist involved. I loved giving chase to
:14:01. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:06.celebrities. It was such good fun. How many jobs can you have like
:14:06. > :14:11.that? It was great. Also great was the impact of the campaign it to
:14:11. > :14:21.that people know if Ted Farr's lived nearby. A campaign that will
:14:21. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:30.lead to disorder in Portsmouth. you think the coverage might have
:14:30. > :14:38.been such as to what part is certain amount hysteria? In a
:14:38. > :14:48.bizarre way I felt slightly proud. I had started a riot. I had gotten
:14:48. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:57.a paediatrician beaten up. Our readers/Until it. He may have been
:14:57. > :15:02.joking. But he had plenty of stories to tell this inquiry.
:15:02. > :15:12.once ran off David Beckham, expecting his phone to ring. He
:15:12. > :15:19.actually did. He asked how I got his number. I did not have his
:15:19. > :15:29.phone. He answered very quickly. This was a witness with much to
:15:29. > :15:30.
:15:31. > :15:37.share. Including a nude photo. may not wish to bring that up.
:15:37. > :15:44.President's wife in France. little early for that. It is a
:15:45. > :15:50.family paper. This was the exchange which really mattered. Picture
:15:50. > :16:00.editors know that voice mails were being intercepted? Yes. We did all
:16:00. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:22.these things fire editors. You only have to read the: in bizarre. It
:16:22. > :16:26.was that blatant and obvious. Editors in the past have denied any
:16:26. > :16:35.knowledge of hacking. Paul McMullen's anger towards them was
:16:35. > :16:39.Clare. They are the scum of journalism. On day 10, a man who
:16:39. > :16:43.spent his life dealing with journalists, a man whose job was to
:16:43. > :16:49.protect Tony Blair's image in the papers and makes no secret for his
:16:49. > :16:54.disdain for part of the media. have it press that has become a
:16:54. > :17:04.putrid. What they have had to do is in doubt and rely ever more or an
:17:04. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:14.impact. It has, head of standards and fairness. They have become part
:17:14. > :17:24.of the political process. Yet without any of the accountability
:17:24. > :17:24.
:17:25. > :17:29.that other parts has a bit too. some cases this unaccountable press
:17:29. > :17:35.abandoned restraint altogether. They told us they were using the
:17:35. > :17:41.media to help them. They were hunting for their child. Then turns
:17:41. > :17:49.out they were using them. There were using them as a news commodity.
:17:49. > :17:55.They became anything-goes people. He had no evidence but he also
:17:55. > :18:02.thinks they may have had the voice mails of Tony Blair's wife.
:18:02. > :18:09.accuse Carol Chaplin of giving off newspapers about what she was up to.
:18:09. > :18:19.I apologise. I was completely wrong. Those allegations have been a field
:18:19. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:29.on a n n unable of. -- on a blob. Alastair Campbell has shown that he
:18:29. > :18:35.is no Guido Fawkes. He is no fan of the press. It is the only kind I
:18:35. > :18:40.was able to get an instant apology. They wrote and story about the
:18:40. > :18:44.impact of my father's death. My father was alive at the time.
:18:44. > :18:49.Labour should have done more to deal with the press, he said. They
:18:49. > :18:53.might not have been the only ones. This is according to a man who led
:18:53. > :19:01.him aid for the information commissioner which reveal a whole
:19:01. > :19:08.range of newspapers made use of a private detective.
:19:08. > :19:17.investigation turned up records of over 17,000 transactions.
:19:17. > :19:20.describes what happened when he broke that news to his bosses.
:19:20. > :19:30.can go for everybody from the person who wrote it to the
:19:30. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:48.newspaper. There was a look of horror. We can't take them off.
:19:48. > :19:52.Pass on my compliments to the team for me. In the end the private
:19:52. > :20:02.detective it received a conditional discharge. No reporters were
:20:02. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:09.charged are investigated. We dealt with anything below the line.
:20:09. > :20:13.was despite the directory being found at the records. At the heart
:20:13. > :20:18.of the evidence, the suggestion that the papers were too powerful
:20:18. > :20:22.to challenge. This is the lower who thought otherwise and decided to
:20:22. > :20:29.take on News International. Only later did he learn that the paper
:20:29. > :20:39.put him and his family under surveillance. That was terrific.
:20:39. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:49.That was truly horrific. My daughter was followed by a
:20:49. > :20:54.detective with a camera. Just followed. That should not happen to
:20:54. > :21:02.anybody's child. Lawyers phone use International commissioned a report
:21:02. > :21:07.on him. He was -- apparently they were going to get a former client
:21:07. > :21:13.to pursue him. -- sue him. News International looked to destroy my
:21:13. > :21:17.life. His international apologise for the surveillance. Critics of