:00:04. > :00:11.the first week in to be Leveson Inquiry Ross Hawkins looks back at
:00:11. > :00:18.the heart out. The transaction was wrong, shameful and should never
:00:18. > :00:28.have happened. What you cannot buy, you Pope York, often through
:00:28. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:38.deception and lies. What she cannot be -- approach your, you still.
:00:38. > :00:43.film star, the supermodel, the novelist, the singer. The court has
:00:43. > :00:49.heard how their lives were laid bare in the newspapers. But it all
:00:49. > :00:55.began with a 13-year-old girl. They call it the tipping point, one
:00:55. > :01:04.alleged crime among thousands, but the one that mattered. Milly Dowler
:01:04. > :01:12.had been missing just a few days when the News of the World hacked
:01:13. > :01:21.into her mobile phone. There was outrage and soon after this
:01:21. > :01:26.decision: We do need to have an inquiry into what has happened.
:01:26. > :01:30.That inquiry would coming two parts. Once the police and the courts had
:01:30. > :01:35.finished their work it would examine wrong doing at News of the
:01:35. > :01:40.World. But first it would look at how the press worked, how it dealt
:01:40. > :01:45.with police and politicians. Embarking on a mammoth task.
:01:45. > :01:50.heart of this enquiry may be one simple question: Regards the
:01:51. > :01:56.Guardian's? On day one, the suggestion that those guardians had
:01:56. > :02:02.become too powerful. This may be one reason why politicians have not
:02:02. > :02:06.been overly keen to take steps to call into question. They fear that
:02:06. > :02:11.by doing so the press would withdraw support for them on a
:02:11. > :02:15.subject them to close personal scrutiny. If that that analysis is
:02:15. > :02:21.right to it might also be said that this inquiry should have the same
:02:21. > :02:27.concerns. And conversely the public may feel that this enquiry may pull
:02:27. > :02:34.its punches for the same reason. I am however able to me put any such
:02:34. > :02:38.concerns in the bad. Journalists had used a private investigator in
:02:38. > :02:46.Hampshire to get information from their own accounts and credit card
:02:46. > :02:53.statements. In the previous three years alone 305 different
:02:53. > :02:59.journalists had asked Steve which more for a total of 13,343
:03:00. > :03:04.different items of information. These 305 journalists worked for 21
:03:04. > :03:09.newspapers and 11 magazines. Names written in the corners of pages in
:03:09. > :03:13.the notebooks of another private detective, Glenn Mulcaire, who was
:03:13. > :03:19.jailed for plotting to hack phones, suggested that News of the World
:03:19. > :03:27.was not the only paper involved. Acorn and name in a notebook simply
:03:27. > :03:32.states, The Sun. It does not specify an individual working there.
:03:32. > :03:38.We have received documentary evidence of another name relating
:03:38. > :03:42.to Zohar Zemiro. They those notebooks so this journalist, Clive
:03:42. > :03:52.Goodman, was not the only one in Rupert Murdoch's firm behaving like
:03:52. > :03:54.
:03:54. > :03:58.that. It is clear that Goodman was not a rogue reporter, we have at
:03:58. > :04:04.least 27 other News International employees. The lawyer for the
:04:04. > :04:10.Metropolitan Police later told the enquiry that some of those names
:04:10. > :04:13.were possibly News of the World employees. But when the man
:04:13. > :04:20.representing News of the World's publisher arrived he came with an
:04:20. > :04:26.apology. Phone hacking was wrong, shameful and it should never have
:04:26. > :04:30.happened. News International apologises unreservedly. Nothing
:04:30. > :04:39.that it has said on its behalf during this enquiry is intended to
:04:39. > :04:44.detract from all qualify that apology in any way. I must add that
:04:44. > :04:50.we accept that phone hacking at the News of the World was not the work
:04:50. > :04:55.of a single rogue reporter. We accept that there was no public
:04:55. > :04:59.interest justification for it. We further accept that it was not the
:04:59. > :05:05.subject of a proper and thorough investigation until the
:05:05. > :05:11.Metropolitan Police began operation Weeting in January this year
:05:11. > :05:16.following the supplier of material to them by News International. In
:05:16. > :05:20.addition we regard as wholly unacceptable the commissioning of a
:05:20. > :05:24.private investigator to carry out surveillance of lawyers acting for
:05:24. > :05:29.claimants or of Members of Parliament on the Select Committee.
:05:29. > :05:31.I should say that watching what people are getting up to is an old
:05:31. > :05:37.fashioned and perfectly proper journalistic practice in many
:05:37. > :05:44.circumstances. But in this instance it was not journalism at will and
:05:44. > :05:48.it was unacceptable. And later this warning. I am not going to give any
:05:48. > :05:54.guarantees that there was no phone hacking by or for the News of the
:05:54. > :06:00.World after 2007. The press knew why they were coming here and they
:06:00. > :06:05.were not taking it lying down. A man representing the Mail said they
:06:05. > :06:10.did not behave like News of the World. A no journalist at
:06:10. > :06:18.Associated Newspapers has engaged in phone hacking. It does not to
:06:18. > :06:22.bribe the police officers. And, in particular, it condemns the
:06:22. > :06:29.shameful practice of packing the mobile phones of the victims of
:06:29. > :06:34.crime or of their families. The activity which Stephen Whitmore was
:06:34. > :06:40.hired to undertake almost a dead wood ago was primarily to obtain
:06:40. > :06:46.addresses and telephone numbers, most of which could legally have
:06:46. > :06:52.been obtained if the individual had had the time to research it. And
:06:52. > :06:57.his assistants was required as far as associated journalists were
:06:57. > :07:01.concerned, to help trace people quickly, usually to verify facts or
:07:02. > :07:09.to comment on stories that were written or in progress prior to
:07:09. > :07:13.publication. And when, on day three, journalists spoke, they came not to
:07:13. > :07:18.praise but too damn others in their trade, some of them they suggested
:07:18. > :07:23.were afraid of their buzzers. reality is that speaking out
:07:23. > :07:26.publicly is not an option for many journalists who would feel at
:07:26. > :07:31.losing their jobs or making themselves unemployable in the
:07:31. > :07:38.future. In our experience that fear has been a significant factor in
:07:38. > :07:41.inhibiting journalists from following ethical principles in the
:07:42. > :07:46.workplace was in media organisations hostile to the
:07:46. > :07:50.concepts of trade unions, that is a problem. Where does the power
:07:50. > :08:00.Reside? Not at the bottom where the majority were to get the job done.
:08:00. > :08:08.But at the top. The expectation was, deliver the goods, and get the job
:08:08. > :08:11.done, bringing the story, whatever the means. No British news editor
:08:11. > :08:17.apparently considered it interesting that a former News of
:08:18. > :08:23.the World journalist was in November 2009 awarded the stunning
:08:23. > :08:28.some of �800,000 for suffering what an employment tribunal regarded as
:08:28. > :08:32.a culture of bullying by its then editor Andy Coulson. This record
:08:32. > :08:37.pay-out and verdict on a man who was about to work through the front
:08:37. > :08:43.door of Number Ten were not judged newsworthy. We have just heard this
:08:43. > :08:47.from the general secretary of the Union, a culture of bullying in any
:08:47. > :08:51.organisation is important. It may be pertinent to ask whether
:08:51. > :08:55.journalists felt intimidated and the things they need to be wrong.
:08:55. > :09:03.As suggests the enquiry may blight will ask whether this was the case
:09:03. > :09:07.within the News of the World. Can safeguards the Bill so that
:09:07. > :09:10.journalists working under increasing pressure can exercise
:09:10. > :09:16.some moral choices about the things they cannot square with their
:09:16. > :09:20.conscience. The answers to these questions about the response to the
:09:20. > :09:24.phone hacking revelations are vital ones for anyone who cares about the
:09:24. > :09:29.health of their democracy. Did people both internally and
:09:29. > :09:33.externally feel a fear of News International? Was its influence
:09:33. > :09:43.across many aspects of British political and cultural life simply
:09:43. > :09:45.
:09:45. > :09:48.to dominate? How did News Corp leverage its influence. It was the
:09:48. > :09:52.experiences of those on the receiving end of a journalistic
:09:52. > :09:58.muscle that rang loudest. Experiences at the hands of what
:09:58. > :10:03.was described as a tawdry journalistic trade. The real code
:10:03. > :10:06.of practice seems to be for such journalists in publishing stories
:10:06. > :10:13.about the private lives of people in the public eye, that what you
:10:13. > :10:19.can get away with, you buy. Regardless of whether it is illegal,
:10:19. > :10:24.it unlawful or just plain wrong. What you cannot buy, you pro cruel,
:10:24. > :10:31.often through deception and lies. What you cannot pick your, you just
:10:31. > :10:37.plain steel. And what you want to published but can neither verified
:10:37. > :10:45.will prove you simply make up. Because it sounds) sells newspapers.
:10:46. > :10:51.At the heart of his case the experience of this family. By on
:10:51. > :11:00.21st March 2000 to a 13-year-old girl was abducted and murdered. Her
:11:00. > :11:05.name was me. -- Milly Dowler. Between March and September she was
:11:05. > :11:09.still believed to be missing, not just by the public but also by her
:11:09. > :11:14.family. Five days after her disappearance a mystery caller left
:11:14. > :11:20.a voicemail message on her phone, apparently inviting her to a job
:11:20. > :11:25.interview in the Midlands. The call was a hoax. A particularly cruel
:11:25. > :11:29.and insensitive folks. It was such an awful story that it made the
:11:29. > :11:37.front pages. A now defunct newspaper put it in their first
:11:37. > :11:41.edition. While the woman who made that call and thereby caused
:11:41. > :11:45.distress to Milly Dowler's family was convicted and imprisoned for
:11:45. > :11:50.five months, what we now know is that another outrage, another act
:11:50. > :11:55.of Crawley and insensitivity was the one which was no way mentioned
:11:55. > :12:00.in the News of the World. That was the fact that Glenn Mulcaire,
:12:00. > :12:05.acting in the course of his work for the newspaper, had deliberately
:12:05. > :12:09.accessed and listen to the missing girl's voice mails. Worse still, he
:12:09. > :12:14.had even deleted some to ensure there was room for waiting voice
:12:14. > :12:18.mails to come through to hope otherwise all-male worlds. Mr Rann
:12:18. > :12:20.Mrs Dowler will tell you in their own words what it felt like in
:12:20. > :12:24.those moments when her mother finally got through to her
:12:24. > :12:29.daughter's boy's mouth after persistent attempts had failed as
:12:29. > :12:34.the box was fault and the euphoria that this belief created, false as
:12:34. > :12:39.it was, unfortunately. Perhaps Cyrano words which can adequately
:12:39. > :12:45.describe how despicable this act was, but the Milly Dowler story is
:12:45. > :12:53.just one of those you were here. The inquiry would also hear the
:12:53. > :12:59.story of a business advisor to Elle Macpherson. This field will give
:12:59. > :13:03.evidence about how she became Elle Macpherson's business advisor but
:13:03. > :13:10.how when damaging details of her private life started appearing in a
:13:10. > :13:13.place she was blamed by her employer. This is no ordinary story,
:13:13. > :13:17.there. The circumstances in which so she was packed off to way clinic
:13:17. > :13:22.in America because her employer believes that her refusal to accept
:13:22. > :13:27.that she was responsible was plainly a denial born out of the
:13:27. > :13:31.strain of caring for her disabled son and a problem with alcohol. She
:13:31. > :13:36.will explain how she reluctantly agreed to his travel to this clinic
:13:36. > :13:41.and then when the clinic sent her back because there was no problem
:13:41. > :13:46.she was in any event sacked by her employer. These are matters she
:13:46. > :13:49.will graphically describe. Of course we all know now that those
:13:49. > :13:54.stories in the press were actually the product, not have someone
:13:54. > :14:04.leaking to the newspapers, but rather the unlawful interception of
:14:04. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:13.her voice mails and her employers Sara pain, mother of Sarah, who was
:14:13. > :14:23.murdered, the phone that she was given by the pay but may have been
:14:23. > :14:25.
:14:25. > :14:29.had by Glenn Mulcaire. -- by the paper.
:14:29. > :14:34.The story which the News of the World plastered across its front
:14:34. > :14:39.page, with the screaming headline, Formula One boss has it not sick
:14:39. > :14:44.orgy with five walkers, revealing the details of Max Mosley's sex
:14:44. > :14:52.life, together with graphic images, has nothing whatsoever to do with
:14:52. > :14:56.public interest. Max Mosley's work as President of B F I A, may have
:14:56. > :15:03.involved a public dimension in terms of imposing sanctions on the
:15:03. > :15:08.Formula One industry, but much, if not more, was about road safety,
:15:08. > :15:13.which is rather boring, but nevertheless incredibly important.
:15:13. > :15:16.Max Mosley did not court publicity, neither he nor his wife, nor his
:15:16. > :15:23.sons, had any interest in being associated with the glamour of
:15:23. > :15:26.motor sport. However, before the end of March 2008, he may not have
:15:26. > :15:31.been well known to the average member of the British public, and
:15:31. > :15:35.that was a deliberate choice, he is well known now, to be honest, who
:15:35. > :15:41.can look at him without thinking about what he chooses to do with
:15:41. > :15:44.other consenting adults in private? And then stop and ask yourself this,
:15:44. > :15:50.is this something that you really feel that you are entitled to know
:15:50. > :15:53.about? Whatever your answer, you do know it, and once you know it, it
:15:53. > :16:00.is too late. The fact that he won his case does nothing to remedy
:16:01. > :16:06.that. Sadly, in Max Mosley's case, and in several other accounts that
:16:06. > :16:11.you will hear, there is a terrible postscript. In the aftermath of the
:16:11. > :16:15.trial, his son, who was suffering from depression, died from an
:16:15. > :16:21.overdose, something which he strongly believes was in some way
:16:21. > :16:26.attributable to the very public humiliation. The press's reaction
:16:26. > :16:31.to this deeply sensitive issue highly covers them in more glory.
:16:31. > :16:35.As Mr Mosley tried to sort out his son's personal effects, he was
:16:35. > :16:41.mobbed by journalists at the house, even though he had written to
:16:41. > :16:47.newspaper editors, asking to be left alone. An isolated incident?
:16:47. > :16:53.No. The same is true of his son's funeral. One of the reporters tried
:16:53. > :16:57.to pass himself off as a rambler in order to get in and take pictures.
:16:57. > :17:02.For Charlotte Church, it was her parents who suffered, said the
:17:02. > :17:05.lawyer, at the most difficult of times. Part of her estate men
:17:05. > :17:11.concerned a story that was published on the front page of the
:17:11. > :17:15.News of the World in December 2005, under the headline, church, three
:17:15. > :17:19.in a bed, cocaine. You might be forgiven for thinking when you saw
:17:19. > :17:25.the headline, that it was some revelation about the singer herself.
:17:25. > :17:30.It was not. Although I suspect that was the intention. Instead, it was
:17:30. > :17:36.a story about her father, having an affair with someone who worked with
:17:36. > :17:40.him, and in several pages, sensational details of his private
:17:40. > :17:44.relationship was plastered across the newspaper. The effect on her
:17:44. > :17:48.parents and particularly her mother, someone the press would call, the
:17:48. > :17:53.innocent party, was absolutely devastating, and Ms Church will
:17:54. > :17:58.tell you about this. The newspaper was aware of that effect even at
:17:58. > :18:03.the time. How do I say that? It transpired that the family
:18:03. > :18:07.discovered that the story was the product of their personal messages
:18:07. > :18:10.being an illegally accessed by Glenn Mulcaire. Part of the
:18:10. > :18:14.information which they would have found that was the fact that surely
:18:14. > :18:20.pride to the story been published, Charlotte's mother was admitted to
:18:20. > :18:26.hospital following an attempted suicide. The newspaper I knew it.
:18:26. > :18:29.In an act of great sensitivity, as in his church will it is plain,
:18:29. > :18:35.following the article published, the newspaper approached her mother
:18:35. > :18:39.directly, and persuaded her to give them an exclusive despite her
:18:39. > :18:44.fragile condition, in part of a packed, in return, they would not
:18:44. > :18:49.run up another follow-up story about her husband's affair. There
:18:49. > :18:56.was no effect to trouble JK Rowling, no scandal, just the job of trying
:18:56. > :19:00.to secure some privacy for her children. The fact that she has
:19:00. > :19:05.tried to carve out an protect some form, some semblance of normal life
:19:05. > :19:10.for her children, but has failed to do so, despite her best efforts,
:19:10. > :19:15.just highlights the excesses of the press. It should not need saying,
:19:15. > :19:19.and indeed it is part of the PCC code, whatever good that has done
:19:19. > :19:24.her in the past, that just because children have famous parents, does
:19:24. > :19:29.not mean they are public property as well. Adults can make choices
:19:29. > :19:33.that children cannot. And while it the most well-known of hurt
:19:33. > :19:37.repeated disputes with a certain section of the press, desperate to
:19:37. > :19:42.overstep the boundaries between her private and professional career, is
:19:42. > :19:46.the case that she brought against big pictures, a photographic agency,
:19:46. > :19:50.over a photograph they took, published in the Express, offer
:19:50. > :19:54.walking on a family outing, sharing some special moments with her
:19:54. > :19:58.husband and children, this is by no means the only example she would
:19:58. > :20:02.give of such intrusion. There have still been photographers and press
:20:02. > :20:06.camped outside her house, with young children had had notes
:20:06. > :20:11.pressed into her school bag, pictures of them had been snatched,
:20:11. > :20:16.while they had been enjoying quality time on holiday. And few
:20:16. > :20:23.parents can no and experience that the case of what the parents of
:20:23. > :20:27.Madeleine McCann. In September 2008, the News of the World published
:20:27. > :20:31.Kate's private diary that she had written to her missing daughter. It
:20:31. > :20:35.was a diary in which she recorded her innermost thoughts, things that
:20:35. > :20:40.she had written to her daughter, the document so private that even
:20:40. > :20:45.her own husband had not seen it. But which was taken by the police
:20:45. > :20:49.in the course of the investigation. How did the News of the World get
:20:49. > :20:54.this from the police? De dead by the information, obtain net through
:20:54. > :20:58.some form of deception, we may never know, especially as the
:20:58. > :21:05.newspaper is defunct. On what basis did they think they could justify
:21:05. > :21:10.such a staggering intrusion into their privacy? The publication of
:21:10. > :21:13.this material under the headline, Kate's diary, in her own words,
:21:13. > :21:21.with a picture on the front page suggesting that she had provided
:21:21. > :21:26.this herself, left her feeling mentally raped, her husband said.
:21:26. > :21:30.He will speak for himself next week, as would JK Rowling. Hugh Grant as
:21:30. > :21:37.well. It was his case that will last week's evidence right up to
:21:37. > :21:43.date, an experience not known to the public and to the victim's
:21:43. > :21:48.Council told the inquiry what had been happening to the mother of his
:21:48. > :21:52.newborn daughter. It was appalling harassment which this lady was
:21:52. > :21:57.having to endure, simply because she was his former girlfriend and
:21:57. > :22:01.has had his child. That is not strictly true. The real reason for
:22:01. > :22:05.the harassment is probably far more sinister, and it is revealed in the
:22:05. > :22:09.evidence that she gave, namely that she has received threats, because
:22:09. > :22:14.of the fact that the father of her child has spoken out against the
:22:14. > :22:19.press. She recalls how while Mr Grant was appearing at Question
:22:19. > :22:22.Time, discussing the closure of the News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
:22:22. > :22:26.and press stand is generally, she received a barrage of telephone
:22:26. > :22:31.calls from a withheld number that someone managed to get it. When she
:22:31. > :22:37.finally answered, she was threatened in the most menacing
:22:37. > :22:42.terms, terms which will reverberate around this inquiry, tell Hugh
:22:42. > :22:47.Grant. Unsurprising it, she was too stressed to call the police. After
:22:47. > :22:51.the birth of her child, the fact which appears to have been leat
:22:51. > :22:56.somehow, this hounding turned into a continued pursuit of her and her
:22:56. > :23:00.child, by paparazzi and other photographers. It became so nasty
:23:00. > :23:06.that when her mother tried to get evidence of the identity of one of
:23:06. > :23:10.the paparazzi in the crowd, he then tried to run her over. All that was
:23:10. > :23:14.one side of the story of course, and Lord Justice Evans and went out
:23:14. > :23:19.of his way to reassure those concerned that his inquiry it will
:23:19. > :23:26.leave Britain with a muted and servile press. -- would not leave
:23:26. > :23:30.Britain. The overwhelming majority of journalism practised in this
:23:30. > :23:35.country is very much in the public interest, and has the public
:23:35. > :23:39.interest very much at its heart. Journalists may have their work cut
:23:39. > :23:43.out convincing everybody that is the case. What is happening here is
:23:43. > :23:48.an inquiry, of those who feel they have been wronged by the press,