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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 feared "bombs under the newsroom floor" in the form of possible widespread wrongdoing in the past. | 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. |
| He "always had some discomfort", but accepted phone hacking must have been limited because police had not shown otherwise, he told the Leveson Inquiry. | He "always had some discomfort", but accepted phone hacking must have been limited because police had not shown otherwise, he told the Leveson Inquiry. |
| Mr Myler took the job in 2007, after a reporter and private investigator had been jailed for phone hacking. | 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 the NoW on lawyers representing phone-hacking victims, appear at the Royal Courts of Justice in London later. | |
| 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. | 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". | 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". |
| Where and when? | |
| "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. | "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." | "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. | 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." | "And I didn't know where they were and I didn't know when they were going to go off." |
| Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, suggested that the NoW's payout to Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor over the hacking of his phone had been to avoid "creating a tendency for one or more of those bombs to explode if there were a trial". | |
| Mr Myler denied that the News of the World had carried out a "cover-up" by paying out £425,000 plus costs to settle the case. | |
| But he said: "The company, not unreasonably or unsurprisingly, wanted to try to get things back on track after Mr Mulcaire and Mr Goodman went to jail. And it was a significant process to do that." | |
| Therefore "there was no appetite to go back" to court, he said. | |
| Without permission | |
| Later on Thursday, Mr Sanderson described how he had helped get hold of a copy of the diary of Kate McCann, the mother of missing Madeleine McCann. | |
| Mr Sanderson, then a junior reporter, said: "The whole thing caused me concern." | |
| But he added: "I was told at the time that we would not be publishing the diary unless we had the express permission of the McCanns." | |
| After extracts were published without the family's permission, the paper later apologised and made a donation to the McCanns' fund to find their daughter, who went missing during a family holiday in Portugal. | |
| "With hindsight, it was completely the wrong decision to publish," Mr Sanderson told the hearing. |