Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain (53 page)

32. Sienna Miller could not understand how reporters and photographers knew about her life. ‘I felt like I was in a video game.’ Her legal case against News International uncovered a crucial weakness in the company’s story.

33. Milly Dowler’s parents, Bob and Sally, arrive at the Leveson Inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, with the combative Mark Lewis (in the orange coat). Lewis and Charlotte Harris (
plate 12
) were the first lawyers to challenge News International over phone hacking.

Notes

1. THE WRONG HEADLINES

1.
The Man Who Owns the News
, Michael Wolff, Vintage Books, 2010

2.
Good Times, Bad Times
, Harold Evans, Coronet, 1983, pp. 489–90

3.
Where Power Lies
, Lance Price, Simon & Schuster, 2010, p. 333

4.
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade
, Piers Morgan, Ebury Press, 2005, p. 147

5.
‘Untangling Rebekah Brooks’, Suzanna Andrews,
Vanity Fair
, February 2012

6.
The Insider,
p. 382

7.
Interview with Siôn Simon, November 2011

2. WAPPING’S NEWS FACTORY

1.
Murdoch
, William Shawcross, Simon & Schuster, 1992, p. 116

2.
‘Tabloid’s Dirty Secrets,’
Dispatches
, Channel 4, 7 February 2011

3.
Full Disclosure
, Andrew Neil, Macmillan, 1996, p. 160

4.
Ibid., p. 172

5.
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade
, Piers Morgan, Ebury Press, 2005, p. 82

6.
Ibid., p. 103

7.
Ibid., p. 95

8.
Paul McMullan, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 29 November 2011

9.
Ibid.

10.
Interview with anonymous News International executive, October 2011

11.
Confessions of a Fake Sheikh
, Mazher Mahmood, HarperCollins, 2008, p. 74

12.
Interview with anonymous News International executive, March 2011

13.
‘Stephen Glover on the press’, Stephen Glover,
Independent
, 21 March 2005

14.
Interview: Andy Coulson, David Rowan,
Evening Standard
, 16 March 2005

15.
‘How the Screws screwed its rivals’, Tim Luckhurst,
Independent
, 19 February 2006

16.
Matt Driscoll, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 19 December 2011

17.
Matt Driscoll, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 12 December 2011

18.
Matt Driscoll, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 19 December 2011

19.
‘Former NoW sports reporter in £792k tribunal payout’, Dominic Ponsford,
Press Gazette
, 24 November 2009

3. THE DARK ARTS

1.
Interview with Alec Owens, January 2012

2.
Ibid.

3.
Alec Owens, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 17 November 2011

4.
Ibid.

5.
Richard Thomas, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 6 September 2011

6.
Stephen Whittamore, BBC Radio 4
PM
programme, 21 September 2010

7.
Alec Owens, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 30 November 2011

8.
‘Exposed after eight years: a private eye’s dirty work for Fleet Street’, Ian Burrell,
Independent
, 6 September 2011

9.
Tom Bradby,
http://blog.itv.com/news/tombradby/2011/11/phone-hacking-the-movie/
, 10 November 2011

4. FIRST HEADS ROLL

1.
‘Fury after he ogled lapdancer’s boobs’, Clive Goodman and Neville Thurlbeck,
News of the World
, 9 April 2006

2.
Document written by Detective Superintendent Philip Williams, Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

3.
Alec Owens, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 17 November 2011

4.
Carine Patry Hoskins, counsel to the Leveson Inquiry, during Matt Driscoll’s oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 19 December 2011

5.
Sheridan Victory Speech in Full, BBC News Online,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5246764.stm
, 4 August 2006

6.
‘Met failed to pursue data on tabloid phone taps’, Nick Davies,
Guardian
, 5 April 2010

7.
Statement by Detective Chief Inspector Keith Surtees, Judicial Review by Lord Prescott, Chris Bryant, Brian Paddick, Ben Jackson and HJK against Metropolitan Police, High Court, 30 September 2011

8.
Detective Chief Inspector Keith Surtees, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

9.
Detective Superintendent Philip Williams, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

10.
Robert Jay QC, Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

11.
Document, Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

12.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 1 March 2012

13.
Lawrence Abramson, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 13 December 2011

14.
Richard Thomas, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 6 September 2011

5. A Rogue Defence

1.
Interview with Mark Lewis, June 2011

2.
Harbottle & Lewis, written evidence, Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, August 2011

3.
Interview with George Eustice, September 2011

4.
Ibid.

5.
‘The World according to Rupert’, Nicholas Wapshott,
Independent
, 23 July 2006

6.
Ibid.

7.
Interview with George Eustice, September 2011

8.
‘Rebekah vetoed BBC man and told Cameron he should give No 10 job to Andy Coulson’, Simon Walters,
Mail on Sunday
, 16 July 2011

9.
‘ Cameron fires up the faithful’, Brian Whelan, BBC News Online,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7025958.stm
, 3 October 2007

10.
‘Police Cameron Action’, George Pascoe-Watson,
Sun
, 30 January 2008

6. THE MANCHESTER LAWYERS

1.
Interview with Charlotte Harris, August 2011

2.
Email from Tom Crone to Colin Myler headed: ‘Strictly private and confidential and legally privileged’, 6.10 p.m., 24 May 2008, disclosed by Farrer & Co to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 31 October 2011

3.
Legal Opinion by Michael Silverleaf QC, to News Group Newspapers [the News International subsidiary which owned the
News of the World
], 3 June 2008, disclosed by Farrer & Co to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 31 October 2011

4.
Email from Colin Myler to James Murdoch, 2.31 p.m., 7 June 2008, disclosed by Linklaters to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 12 December 2011.

5.
Email from Julian Pike to Tom Crone, 5.16 p.m., 6 June 2008, disclosed by Linklaters to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 12 December 2011

6.
James Murdoch’s reply at 2.34 p.m.

7.
Richard Thomas, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 6 September 2011

8.
Ibid.

9.
‘Bloated BBC out of touch with the viewers’, David Cameron,
Sun
, 3 November 2008

10.
‘Tory government “would force BBC to reveal stars’ salaries”’, Leigh Holmwood, Guardian online,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/22/tory-government-bbc-pay
, 22 January 2009

11.
‘Tories would cut Ofcom powers, says David Cameron’, Jason Deans, Guardian online,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/06/tories-cut-ofcom-powers-david-cameron

12.
‘We’d abolish BBC Trust, says Tory culture spokesman Jeremy Hunt’, John Plunkett and Tara Conlan, Guardian online,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/wed-abolish-bbc-trust-hunt
, 19 October 2009

7. ONE DETERMINED REPORTER

1.
Interview with Nick Davies, February 2012

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Interview with Alan Rusbridger, August 2011

5.
‘Revealed: Murdoch’s £1m bill for hiding dirty tricks’, Nick Davies,
Guardian
, 9 July 2009

6.
Minutes of Gold Meeting, Scotland Yard, 9 July, disclosed at Leveson Inquiry, 29 February 2012

7.
Ibid.

8.
Interview with Chris Bryant, June 2011

9.
‘Sienna Miller: hacking’s heroine’, Jemima Khan,
Independent
, 23 September 2011

10.
Tom Crone, oral evidence, House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, 21 July 2009

11.
Phone conversation between Neville Thurlbeck and Tom Watson, October 2011

12.
‘Tony Blair accused of trying to silence Rupert Murdoch critic’, Martin Hickman,
Independent
, 11 July 2011

13.
Alastair Campbell, draft statement to Leveson Inquiry, November 2011. This passage was included in Campbell’s draft statement to the Leveson Inquiry but was omitted after he consulted ‘close friends’

8. INTIMIDATING PARLIAMENT

1.
Mark Lewis, oral evidence, House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, 2 September 2009

2.
Ibid.

3.
‘News of the World faces £800,000 payout in bullying case’, Hugh Muir and Chris Tryhorn,
Guardian
, 23 November 2009

4.
Matt Driscoll, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 12 December 2011

5.
‘Tabloids, Tories and Telephone Hacking’,
Dispatches
, Channel 4, 4 October 2010

6.
Letter from the
Guardian
to Dick Fedorcio, Guardian online,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/15/letter-from-the-guardian-to-dick-fedorcio
, July 15 2011

7.
‘We must hold the powerful to account’, Philip Davies,
News of the World
, 28 February 2010

8.
News International Statement on Phone Hacking,
Press Gazette
, 24 February 2010

9. A MURDER

1.
Tom Watson, adjournment debate on murder of Daniel Morgan, House of Commons, 29 February 2012

2.
‘Fraudster Squad’, Graeme McLagan,
Guardian
, 21 September 2002

3.
Ibid.

4.
Jacqui Hames, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 22 February 2012

5.
Lord Stevens, oral evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 6 March 2012

6.
Jacqui Hames, written evidence, Leveson Inquiry, 22 February 2012

7.
‘Collapse of long-running inquiry leaves unanswered questions and accusations’, Sandra Laville,
Guardian
, 12 March 2011