: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
:06:12. > :06:14.
: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