two decades of my life, where i could possibly have found something, but i never have. i didn t invent this. and it certainly wasn t i the paper s first rodeo, when it came to phone hacking, when they instructed me in how to do it. my head of me is sat there and said, i m going to use this one person- to demonstrate on because he never picks up his phone it s guaranteed to go - through to his voicemail. i m like, ok, shoot. who is it? he said, well, it s a guy called alan yentob. - i m like, i ve never heard of alan yentob before. . he was a bigwig at the bbc. and the head of news kind of. ba ba ba ba ba. gets himself into alan s system - and starts playing various messages for me and then showing me how to shuffle through them, - how to make sure i didn t delete any by accident. . there was no alert to. to the target person. while at the mirror, dan evans hacked hundreds of victims.
of press interest. the details are we re engaged. that s it. i was obviously naive. it was as if, oh, it s ok for you to overcome adversity, but there s no way you re going to marry an icon. they were just churning stories out that would feed into the public s gossipy nature. do you remember the first time that a personal piece of information was in the press, that you thought, i don t know how they got that ? it was, like, 2001. me and my then partner got into an argument, so i left and i went to my girlfriends and stayed there and switched the phone off. and woke up in the morning and found out that all my voicemail messages had been listened to. and i thought, that s weird. why would it not be unheard messages? didn t think anything more of it, got in the car, drove around. then i got a call from neil wallis, from the people. he said, we ve got this story that you have had an argument, and i was like, what?! he said, well, yeah. we got told by a guy
despite all the documentary evidence we have, the single most important thing are witnesses and whistle blowers in particular. by whistle blowers, i mean journalists who are willing to come forward to give evidence that they hacked phones and it s very rare for that to happen. that s why dan evans is so important, because he has come forward and admitted to doing this kind of stuff and doing it regularly. it s incredibly important evidence for the claimants. at the height of it, - i was hacking 100, 150 people a day, maybe. people like kate moss, - daniel craig, david blunkett, who was the home secretary. at the time, lots of celebrities, sports people, sometimes their nearest and dearest, j sometimes their mistresses.
who was coming in from london? i heard him leaving a message for her on her voicemail. - are you going to meet me at the train station? - bingo. put photographers on it, with some long lenses, i at both ends of the train journey. then and you ve got photos, and bob s your uncle, . it s a page in the paper. she was targeted specifically because of her ethnicity- and because of her gender, - because she was regarded as being, you know, somebody who would appeal to both male and female readers, - who ticked an important box, in terms of the demographicl reach of the paper. and i was the tool that was used to steal her secrets, put them on the front page of the paper they d chase down any boyfriend i was seeing at the time and, you know, i m in my 30s, so i m out there, trying to find the one, like every
of three weeks. - she decided to end the relationship. on the 13th of september, he crept up behind my- daughter, he raised a gun witnesses saw it. he raised a gun. he shot her at the back- of the head and as she fell, he shot her in the face. and then, he turned the gun on himself. | it was just before closing time last night when, in front of shoppers and staff, a man shot dead a woman serving on one of the ground floor cosmetics counters. it s believed the 22 year old victim had been stalked by her killer after ending a relationship with him. it was five years after clare s murder, i got a phone call. from the metropolitan police.