The Phone Hacking Inquiry BBC News Special

inquiry. Among this week Widnes's were Alastair Campbell and

Charlotte Church. -- witnesses. News International sought to

destroy my life. The press has become putrid. I felt proud that I

had created something that had The grieving mother is she was

emotionally blackmailed by a tabloid. The innocent men, driven

into hiding by the press. The teenage girls taught full-time by

photographers. They are not the sort of stories you normally read

in the papers, but it has taken an inquiry to turn them into headline

news. An inquiry that began its eight-day with a man you may

remember. Christopher Jefferies, arrested after the murder of Joanna

Yeates. He was her landlord. In fact, you may remember as some of

the stories written about him. headline is, the strange Mr

Jefferies. Loot, made sexual remarks. What you may not have

heard about it is the libel pay-out made from eight of the papers and

man was entirely innocent. sliding of the reporting was

intended its to be as sensational, exploitative titillating - to

appeal in every possible way 82 people's for realistic instincts. -

- appealed. All the stories and photos had left him instantly

recognisable and pursued. In effect, for a period after I was released,

I was effectively under house arrest. It went from friends to

France, rather as if I were eight rapid and priest at the time of the

Reformation. -- rapid and priests. Certainly the couple of months

immediately preceding that, while I was still under suspicion, without

doubt, the most difficult period I think I have spent giving this

existence. My life, in effect, was on hold. Christopher Jefferies as

an agent to deal with the media now. When he first fell under suspicion,

finding about him was simple stuff. This inquiry heard that they were

hi-tech methods to follow others. In Hirst has been Hayne

intelligence agent. When the news that wanted to get to him, be used

any Nell attachment known as a Trojan. -- e-mail. All documents

that he could access by the backdoor Trojan. They could access

e-mails, hydrides. -- hard drives. Th Thhat we have identified

would have allowed the Web can to or my kids. He was shown a fax of

an e-mail sent to the news back of this and other paperwork. Documents

that clearly show that line, and specifically, my wife's information

had been access. My wife is a nurse and they had obtained her CV, a PIN

number and other associated documents. He quoted his

explanation of events. I think this sums it up - then again, when all

this was happening, Andy Coulson was the editor and he is big house

with a lot of powerful people, including top police officers. That

is exactly what you are dealing with here. Separately, later in the

big, the Labour MP to paint confirmed he had met police

officers about alleged hacking to his computers. The press had been

interested in Charlotte Church since she was just 11 years old,

when she was branded as having the Voice Of An Angel. As she grew

older, the papers were eager to suggest that the Angel had fallen.

Basically, it was on the Sun's website. It was a countdown clock

that ran for more than a month. It was a countdown clock to my 16th

birthday. The innuendo of the age of my passing of consent, where I

could have sex. It was a little Bizarre. After speculating about

the sex life of the teenager, they bought and then publish the details.

Why is it OK that an editor of someone seen me in a newspaper

could pay an employee in Cardiff tens of thousands of pounds to get

details about a 17-year-old girl. When she got pregnant, papers

reported rumours of the news before she had told her parents. My family

were really upset at that I had not told them first. Surely it is any

woman's right to tell her family or a loved one's when she feels the

time is appropriate. It was mine used to tell. That opportunity was

taken away from me. And she failed to provide a scandal, they printed

stories about her family instead. want to read the first line of the

article, superstar Charlotte Church's mum tried to kill her son

because her husband is a love rat who is hooked on cocaine. -- kill

herself. You can imagine what followed it. It was basically just

totally sensationalised. Whether partially or wholly true, I just

really hated the fact that my parents, who had never been in this

industry, were being exposed and vilified in this fashion. It had a

massive impact on my family life. It had an impact on my mother's

help. The News of the World had reported on it before then. They

had reported on hospital treatment. She alleged when she was asked to

sing at Rupert Murdoch's wedding, she is guaranteed to be looked at

favourably in his newspapers instead of a �100,000 fee.

remember being 13 and wondering why on earth anyone would take a favour

over �100,000. We were quite resolute on this point. We were

being advised by management and certain members of the record

company to take the better option. He was a very powerful men and

others in the early stages of my career and could do with a favour

of this magnitude. international denied that happened.

Anne Diamond, has presented television programmes. It was much

darker and private time that cemented her relationship with the

papers. It was when she lost her baby, a victim of cot death.

female reporter tried to brush the door. She rang the door, which I

was not answering. Friends of the family were in with us by then. She

rang the doorbell and she had a big bouquet of flowers to give us. When

the door had to be taken of the chain in order to accept the

flowers, she rushed in. She pleaded with newspaper editors to stay away

from the funeral. Every one of them did. Except that on the day of our

little boy's funeral, held at a remote country church, there was a

photographer on the public highway. He was standing on the road. He

made a point of standing on the road. He had a very long lens, the

sort of one they used to use on Princess Diana. We were aware they

were taking photographs. After one of those voters was printed on the

front of the Sun, the paper wanted her to back a campaign to raise

money for research into cot death. They said it would look bad if she

didn't. I put emotionally blackmailed by the people who I

thought I just trampled all over our dignity, all over their child's

grave. Anne Diamond writes the papers has of birth. She recently

wrote an article on Dawn French's weight loss. She was asked if that

was sceptical. She said she thought it was. The article was at least

accurate. Unlike some of the headlines the inquiry heard about

on a nine. Headlines in the stark as described by a former reporter.

Chile nine to open a theme park. Angelina Jolie two places and boil

in film. Bubbles to give evidence at Michael Jackson trial. Jade's

back in a big brother, she was dead at the time. But then, accuracy, he

said was not the main concern. The Daily Star is a right-wing tabloid.

They have a political perspective on certain issues. For example,

immigration or national security or policing. And so, whenever a story

may be, you must try and get here Like a tailor that Muslims planning

to hide bombs in their turbans. has already been decided their feet

story is running. You say that a security source said it and then

run a bunch of sources which are made up at the top of my head. You

then need to get some sort of official quote. I called off the

director of the theatre of a Sikh organisation and it so that we are

hearing that Muslims are planning to disguise themselves. What you

think of this? You add this veneer of legitimacy. You have got your

story. This report has had a longer, very different career. He broke the

story that merely down it -- nearly Milly Dowler's phone has been

hacked. Our understanding of the facts is that it was news of the

will that journalists who hacked and deleted the phone. Glenn

Mulcaire, the private detective, has tonight deleting the voice

messages himself. But this journalist thinks that change needs

to come. I do not trust this industry to regulate itself. I love

reporting. I want this to be free. You have a massive intellectual

puzzle. How it invigilate a free press? It obviously does not work.

-- you regulate? Not all journalists share this view of the

trade. Some have been regarded as settled fact. It was wrong to Hak

Milly Dowler's phone. But one witness questioned and all that.

Mes Paul McMullan. He was a features editor. He was given to

saying it as he sees it. Hatching in Milly Dowler's phone was not a

bad thing for the journalist involved. I loved giving chase to

celebrities. It was such good fun. How many jobs can you have like

that? It was great. Also great was the impact of the campaign it to

that people know if Ted Farr's lived nearby. A campaign that will

lead to disorder in Portsmouth. you think the coverage might have

been such as to what part is certain amount hysteria? In a

bizarre way I felt slightly proud. I had started a riot. I had gotten

a paediatrician beaten up. Our readers/Until it. He may have been

joking. But he had plenty of stories to tell this inquiry.

once ran off David Beckham, expecting his phone to ring. He

actually did. He asked how I got his number. I did not have his

phone. He answered very quickly. This was a witness with much to

share. Including a nude photo. may not wish to bring that up.

President's wife in France. little early for that. It is a

family paper. This was the exchange which really mattered. Picture

editors know that voice mails were being intercepted? Yes. We did all

these things fire editors. You only have to read the: in bizarre. It

was that blatant and obvious. Editors in the past have denied any

knowledge of hacking. Paul McMullen's anger towards them was

Clare. They are the scum of journalism. On day 10, a man who

spent his life dealing with journalists, a man whose job was to

protect Tony Blair's image in the papers and makes no secret for his

disdain for part of the media. have it press that has become a

putrid. What they have had to do is in doubt and rely ever more or an

impact. It has, head of standards and fairness. They have become part

of the political process. Yet without any of the accountability

that other parts has a bit too. some cases this unaccountable press

abandoned restraint altogether. They told us they were using the

media to help them. They were hunting for their child. Then turns

out they were using them. There were using them as a news commodity.

They became anything-goes people. He had no evidence but he also

thinks they may have had the voice mails of Tony Blair's wife.

accuse Carol Chaplin of giving off newspapers about what she was up to.

I apologise. I was completely wrong. Those allegations have been a field

on a n n unable of. -- on a blob. Alastair Campbell has shown that he

is no Guido Fawkes. He is no fan of the press. It is the only kind I

was able to get an instant apology. They wrote and story about the

impact of my father's death. My father was alive at the time.

Labour should have done more to deal with the press, he said. They

might not have been the only ones. This is according to a man who led

him aid for the information commissioner which reveal a whole

range of newspapers made use of a private detective.

investigation turned up records of over 17,000 transactions.

describes what happened when he broke that news to his bosses.

can go for everybody from the person who wrote it to the

newspaper. There was a look of horror. We can't take them off.

Pass on my compliments to the team for me. In the end the private

detective it received a conditional discharge. No reporters were

charged are investigated. We dealt with anything below the line.

was despite the directory being found at the records. At the heart

of the evidence, the suggestion that the papers were too powerful

to challenge. This is the lower who thought otherwise and decided to

take on News International. Only later did he learn that the paper

put him and his family under surveillance. That was terrific.

That was truly horrific. My daughter was followed by a

detective with a camera. Just followed. That should not happen to

anybody's child. Lawyers phone use International commissioned a report

on him. He was -- apparently they were going to get a former client

to pursue him. -- sue him. News International looked to destroy my

life. His international apologise for the surveillance. Critics of