The Phone Hacking Inquiry

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:00:02. > :00:05.Critics say it is expensive and unnecessary. It is time for our

:00:05. > :00:14.look at this week's evidence into the Leveson Inquiry, the inquiry

:00:14. > :00:19.set up to examine the culture, practice and ethics of the press.

:00:19. > :00:29.At midnight, running down the dark street with a 10 big men, it felt

:00:29. > :00:35.

:00:35. > :00:37.like such an intrusion into a They arrived here, witnesses whose

:00:37. > :00:44.lives have been cut by a celebrity or tragedy, ready to face

:00:44. > :00:49.barristers at an inquiry and a charge. But first, inevitably, the

:00:49. > :00:53.cameras. Some lived much of their lives with this sort of attention.

:00:53. > :00:57.But on day five, the inquiry heard from those who came to know it in

:00:57. > :01:01.the worst of circumstances. From the mother and father to Milly

:01:01. > :01:05.Dowler who, as they tried to cope with their daughter's disappearance,

:01:05. > :01:09.traced her last known journey, only learning later that a newspaper

:01:09. > :01:15.photographer had been had been them. On the Sunday, that

:01:15. > :01:20.photograph appeared in the News of the World. I can remember seeing it

:01:20. > :01:25.and I was really cross because we did not see anyone. They had

:01:25. > :01:29.obviously taken the picture with some sort of telephoto lens. How on

:01:29. > :01:35.earth did they know we were doing that walk on that day? It felt like

:01:35. > :01:41.such an intrusion into a really, really private grief moment. Time

:01:41. > :01:46.and again they checked Milly Dowler's phone messages just in

:01:46. > :01:53.case. Finding that perhaps one day she may be alive. It clicked onto

:01:53. > :02:03.hobos -- boy smelt so I heard her voice and it was, I thought she was

:02:03. > :02:07.

:02:07. > :02:12.alive! It was them, really. When we were told about the hacking, that

:02:12. > :02:16.was the first thing I thought. was not Milly Dowler who accessed

:02:16. > :02:21.her voice mail, it was the News of the World. And what about

:02:21. > :02:27.celebrities? Hugh Grant has made a new allegation against a different

:02:27. > :02:32.newspaper. The Mail on Sunday ran an article saying that my

:02:32. > :02:39.relationship with my then girlfriend was on the rocks because

:02:39. > :02:43.of my persistent late night flirtatious phone calls with a

:02:43. > :02:52.studio executive from Warner Brothers. The story was false and

:02:52. > :02:57.he sued. But remained suspicious. realised that although there was no

:02:57. > :03:01.executive from Warner Brothers, whom I had any kind of relationship

:03:01. > :03:05.with, there was a great friend of mine in Los ne in Los o runs a

:03:05. > :03:11.production coduction cch is associated with Warner Brothers and

:03:11. > :03:16.whose assistant is a charming, married, middle-aged lady, English,

:03:16. > :03:22.who, as happens in Hollywood, is the person who brings you. And she

:03:22. > :03:26.did leave him messages. I cannot for the life of me think of any

:03:26. > :03:32.conceivable source for this story in the Mail on Sunday, except those

:03:32. > :03:36.voice messages on my mobile telephone. The Mail on Sunday was a

:03:36. > :03:40.to deny having got that or any story through phone hacking and

:03:40. > :03:44.accused Hugh Grant of mendacious smears. Comment that would have

:03:44. > :03:50.consequences. But the actor told them about the way the press had

:03:50. > :03:55.treated the mother of his recently born child and her family.

:03:55. > :03:59.mother, the 61-year-old grandmother, of my child went out into a street

:03:59. > :04:03.and took a picture of a man sitting in a car with a great big camera.

:04:03. > :04:07.He turned round, took a load of pictures of her, wound the window

:04:07. > :04:13.down and shouted abuse at her. As she crossed the road, he minister

:04:13. > :04:18.at -- minister with his car, drove very fast. He then did a U-turn,

:04:18. > :04:22.and minister again with the car. A story suggested you do not need an

:04:22. > :04:25.intimate or personal relationship with a celebrity to be a target. A

:04:25. > :04:31.professional one will do. When stories about Elle Macpherson were

:04:31. > :04:36.leaked to the press, she confronted her business adviser. Can you give

:04:36. > :04:41.me an example of when I have done this? She said, you have done 11

:04:41. > :04:45.things. I said, tell me what they are. I said, you cannot put me in

:04:45. > :04:49.here, tell me I have done something and then not tell me what I have

:04:49. > :04:53.done. She said, I am not allowed to tell you. Later it turned out the

:04:53. > :04:59.leak had come from hat for smells but by then this woman had been

:04:59. > :05:03.wrongly accused of being an alcoholic. -- from leaked voice

:05:03. > :05:07.mails. And then the story of this couple who lost two children. Their

:05:07. > :05:12.daughter was killed at school by another girl. Inaccurate press

:05:12. > :05:18.articles played down her murderous responsibility, affecting her

:05:18. > :05:28.brother. He then took his own life and was discovered clutching the

:05:28. > :05:32.

:05:32. > :05:42.cuttings. The journalists... If you do away with a press can plate, it

:05:42. > :05:43.

:05:43. > :05:48.can have a chilling effect. There can be malicious lies. Just because

:05:48. > :05:55.a person is deceased, you can write what you want? By the afternoon,

:05:55. > :06:02.Lord Justice Leveson had a message for the Mail's response to Hugh

:06:02. > :06:12.Grant's allegations. I am extremely concerned about ensuring that the

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:06:14. > :06:18.arguments relating to this inquiry are conducted here, not elsewhere.

:06:18. > :06:23.What newspapers are allowed to publish is at issue. And what

:06:23. > :06:32.privacy, in public or private, people should expect. A man who

:06:32. > :06:36.became known for playing a man who promoted himself also provided

:06:36. > :06:46.evidence. One can argue that there are those who make their Korea from

:06:46. > :06:51.

:06:51. > :06:59.being famous. Those people use the press to raise their profile. --

:06:59. > :07:08.make their career. It is a two way street. They exploit the press.

:07:08. > :07:15.They are in the fame game. Those people have an impact. I have not.

:07:15. > :07:23.I have never set myself up as a paragon of virtue, as a model of

:07:23. > :07:28.morality. I simply do what I do and that is what I like to be judged on.

:07:28. > :07:38.He could not recall how many kids and health schemes making their

:07:38. > :07:39.

:07:39. > :07:43.target. But he remembers one involving Andy Coulson. Someone I

:07:43. > :07:48.counted as a casual friend, more a friend of a friend, called me and

:07:48. > :07:54.told me I was about to be a subject of a steam, as it were. I was about

:07:54. > :07:58.to receive a phone call which would come from Andy Coulson's Office.

:07:58. > :08:05.There was a girl in Andy Coulson's office who was going to speak to me

:08:05. > :08:14.on the phone, the phone call would be recorded, and she would try to

:08:14. > :08:24.entice the to talking about intimate details of my life.

:08:24. > :08:26.

:08:26. > :08:34.People... We are here because somebody has to represent all of

:08:35. > :08:44.those other people who have not the stomach to be here. I want to make

:08:44. > :08:48.it clear that of course there is a personal element to this but it is

:08:48. > :08:52.not just about ours, it is about other people. On the seventh day,

:08:52. > :08:57.the story of how hacking was exposed at the paper that Andy

:08:57. > :09:01.Coulson once edited. This was the lawyer who fought the News of the

:09:01. > :09:05.World on behalf of the footballers union chief who believed his phone

:09:05. > :09:08.had been hacked. The inquiry heard the more they learned a packing,

:09:08. > :09:18.the more the paper's lawyers worried and the more the pay-outs

:09:18. > :09:20.

:09:20. > :09:30.on offer went up. The News of the Wo Woen caught out. It

:09:30. > :09:30.

:09:30. > :09:34.seemed such a flurry of activity. It culminated in a conversation

:09:34. > :09:42.between the News of the World and myself where they offered �50,000.

:09:42. > :09:47.This settled on �425,000 in damages. -- they settled. This could make

:09:47. > :09:50.you think suing papers was easy and lucrative. Not so said a woman who

:09:50. > :09:55.married and divorced a footballer and had only one way to find a

:09:55. > :10:02.libel action. I had to put the house on the market. I was told I

:10:02. > :10:08.needed to come up with �200,000. You know, to go into court. Where

:10:08. > :10:14.was I go in to find that money? All of my money was in my home.

:10:14. > :10:18.accepted that she had invited the press into her life. I would like

:10:18. > :10:23.things to be... If they are going to be reported, to be reported

:10:23. > :10:28.correctly because I do not know how if you have... I have been asked,

:10:28. > :10:34.if you sold your wedding, if I had written a book, if I had chosen to

:10:34. > :10:39.go on to a programme on television, then I am asking for it. In a week

:10:39. > :10:49.that saw the popular press vilified, it was the Guardian that had to

:10:49. > :10:53.apologise to a son for and mistaken print. This regarded the lawyer

:10:53. > :10:59.whose close attention to two Grand's evidence was noted on

:10:59. > :11:04.Twitter. The story was wrong. -- to Hugh Grant's. No celebrity suffered

:11:04. > :11:10.a wrong anything like that enjoyed by Gerry and Kate McCann. After

:11:10. > :11:20.their daughter was abducted, they received sympathy, suspicion and

:11:20. > :11:34.

:11:34. > :11:44.An article on 26th November 2007. You're accused him of selling her

:11:44. > :11:45.

:11:45. > :11:51.into white slavery. -- them. They said we stored her body in a

:11:51. > :11:55.freezer. They found themselves powerless to respond.

:11:55. > :12:01.desperately wanted to shout out that it was not true. But when it

:12:01. > :12:10.is you against the powerful media you just cannot do anything. We

:12:10. > :12:16.were trying to make them stop. libel suit stopped the stories but

:12:16. > :12:19.memories of the paparazzi waiting outside their house remained.

:12:19. > :12:27.were several occasions where they were banging on the windows asking

:12:27. > :12:33.to come in. I was scared. After they gave an interview to the

:12:33. > :12:40.magazines they had an angry editor of news of the world on the phone.

:12:40. > :12:49.He was irate when he found out about the publication which

:12:49. > :12:59.happened and was berating us. He wanted us to do lane to view. He

:12:59. > :13:00.

:13:00. > :13:06.beat us into submission, Beverley. He wanted us to do an interview.

:13:06. > :13:14.Long after their daughter's abduction, more anguish. I felt

:13:14. > :13:21.violated. I had written these words at the most desperate time of my

:13:21. > :13:31.life. It was my only way of communicating. There was absolutely

:13:31. > :13:32.

:13:32. > :13:37.no respect shown. It made me feel very vulnerable. I could not

:13:37. > :13:47.believe it. It did not stop. It was not a one day thing. That whole

:13:47. > :13:56.week was traumatic. I could not believe the injustice. I have read

:13:56. > :14:02.through my diary entries and I can hardly believe them. On day eight a

:14:02. > :14:07.film star who defeated that paper's publishers in court. Sienna Miller

:14:07. > :14:10.was paid �100,000 after admitting her phone had been hacked. She long

:14:10. > :14:16.wondered how photographers knew where she would be and why she

:14:16. > :14:22.could not escape them. I would find myself at midnight running down a

:14:22. > :14:25.dark street on my own with ten men chasing me. The fact that they had

:14:25. > :14:31.cameras and a hand made an illegal. If you take away the cameras you

:14:31. > :14:36.have got a pack of men chasing a woman. It is a very intimidating

:14:36. > :14:41.situation to be in. Before she worked out how the press got

:14:41. > :14:48.information she expected that it came from closer to home. I had

:14:48. > :14:52.been only careful to tell my mother, sister and two of my best friends.

:14:52. > :14:56.Journalists call not saying that they knew about this. I accused my

:14:56. > :15:05.family and people who would never dream of selling any of my

:15:05. > :15:15.information. Max Mosley won his own victories against the press. He got

:15:15. > :15:19.

:15:19. > :15:28.a privacy action. He could not work out what gave journalists the right

:15:28. > :15:36.to judge him. He's so that I was guilty of unimaginable depravity.

:15:36. > :15:43.It reflects badly on his imagination. Apart from that, it is

:15:43. > :15:50.not a sensible comment. I would not have any idea why he said those

:15:50. > :16:00.things. All I know is that he has his preoccupation with Prue --

:16:00. > :16:04.

:16:04. > :16:08.schoolboy smut. He may have some sort of strange sex obsession. It

:16:09. > :16:18.is not up to me to go into his bedroom and a film and write about

:16:18. > :16:25.it. It is his business. He spoke of the impact history about his sex

:16:26. > :16:32.life had on his son who died of an overdose. The story had the most

:16:32. > :16:42.devastating effect on him. He could not cope. It was so awful. It was

:16:42. > :16:42.

:16:43. > :16:46.bad for me but for my son to see it all over the newspapers and the

:16:46. > :16:51.weather was horrible. For Max Mosley the problem was less the

:16:51. > :16:57.Bulls the press had to follow and the one -- than the ones that could

:16:57. > :17:03.not be enforced. For many it is not just about what is published but

:17:03. > :17:08.about what journalists do. Like JK Rowling explaining the battle she

:17:08. > :17:14.had been fighting to keep her daughter out of the press. She does

:17:14. > :17:20.in her first year at primary school. I opened her school bag in the

:17:20. > :17:24.evening. Among the usual letters from school of and debris that

:17:24. > :17:34.every child generates, I found an envelope addressed to me and a

:17:34. > :17:37.

:17:37. > :17:43.journalist. Your letter was from a journalist. I was so angry that my

:17:43. > :17:49.five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a place of complete

:17:49. > :17:54.security from journalists. She also faced the photographers at home and

:17:54. > :18:03.in the street. I have gone to such lengths to prevent the

:18:03. > :18:11.photographing of my children. I have complained to the PCC and had

:18:11. > :18:16.been to court. I would like to say that particularly with regard to

:18:16. > :18:21.photographers outside our house I think a very good example of this

:18:21. > :18:26.is to journalists from a Scottish tabloid took up residence outside

:18:26. > :18:33.their house in a car at a time when I was absolutely unaware that there

:18:33. > :18:42.was interest in me. They were just sitting there. I asked someone who

:18:42. > :18:48.works for the publication to ask them what they wanted. The response

:18:49. > :18:54.we received was that it was a boring day at the office. By family

:18:54. > :19:00.and I were under surveillance for their amusement. It was not even a

:19:00. > :19:05.pretence that there was a story. It is difficult for people who have

:19:05. > :19:15.not experienced that to understand how terrible it is. What do they

:19:15. > :19:17.

:19:17. > :19:21.want? What they think they have got's it is incredibly threatening.

:19:21. > :19:29.I had at this point a ten-year-old daughter and a virtually new one

:19:29. > :19:34.baby. We were besieged friar week. The photographers had disappeared.

:19:34. > :19:41.For the first time in a week I was able to get out of the house with

:19:41. > :19:46.my daughter and the baby. On this occasion I saw the photographer

:19:46. > :19:55.taking a picture from across the street. At what my daughter behind