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Leveson Inquiry: Myler accepted 'rogue reporter' view Leveson Inquiry: Myler accepted 'rogue reporter' view
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Ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler has said he believed, when he joined the paper, that phone hacking had been limited to "one rogue reporter". Ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler has said he feared "bombs under the newsroom floor" in the form of possible widespread wrongdoing in the past.
A police investigation had unearthed no evidence of wider wrongdoing at that time, Mr Myler told the Leveson Inquiry examining media ethics. He "always had some discomfort", but accepted phone hacking must have been limited because police had not shown otherwise, he told the Leveson Inquiry.
On Wednesday, he told the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice that illegality should be prosecuted. Mr Myler took the job in 2007, after a reporter and private investigator had been jailed for phone hacking.
A former NoW reporter and a private detective give evidence later.A former NoW reporter and a private detective give evidence later.
Reporter Daniel Sanderson and investigator Derek Webb, who carried out surveillance for NoW on lawyers representing phone-hacking victims, appear at the Royal Courts of Justice in London later.
Where and when?
Mr Myler took over running the paper in January 2007, after royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for illegally accessing the voicemails of royal aides.
Giving evidence for a second day on Thursday morning, Mr Myler said he had initially believed News International's assertion that phone hacking at NoW had been limited to "one rogue reporter".
"Given what I believed to be a thorough police investigation throughout that period, and the fact that the police had not interviewed any other member of staff from the News of the World other than Mr Goodman, I think that weighed heavily on my mind," Mr Myler said.
"I assumed that they would have done so if they had any kind of evidence or reason to speak to somebody else."
But he added: "It's fair to say that I always had some discomfort and at the time I phrased it as that I felt that there could have been bombs under the newsroom floor.
"And I didn't know where they were and I didn't know when they were going to go off."