? Chris Jefferies tells how he was portrayed as a 'creepy oddball', a 'pervert' and a' peeping Tom'
? He says he will 'never fully recover' from the libellous coverage
? He says the PCC did not acknowledge a request to investigate the 'scurrilous reporting'
? Jefferies says despite his vindication some people will always 'retain the impression that I am a very weird character indeed who is best avoided'
? Former army intelligence officer Ian Hurst alleges corruption at the highest level at the Met police
?�Charlotte Church claims she was offered �100,000 or 'favourable coverage' in News International titles if she sang at Rupert Murdoch's wedding to Wendi Deng
Diamond tells how she was catapulted to fame in 1983 when on Britain's first breakfast TV station, TV-am.
Anne Diamond is now taking the stand.
Church concludes:
I feel strangely strong because I've survived it all and I don't know how because at times it really messes with your mind. In a way I think it's made me stronger but professionally because I've been made a caricature for so long and that really isn't me, the person I am or the way I live my life ? I think that has had a massive impact on my career. I find it really difficult to be taken seriously because my credibility has been knocked for so many years.
Church has just launched an attack on Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre and other editors. She said if they are not "whiter than white" their misdeeds deserve to be reported in the press rather than her private life.
The hearing has been told that Church has read a speech that Dacre recently gave to the Society of Editors.
I don't want to single out Paul Dacre at all. Just in terms of editors and people who are high up in tabloid papers ? he [Dacre] said that there were many journalists who were exposing the misdeeds of the rich, the powerful and the pompous.
It just struck me that Mr Dacre themselves and other editors are probably rich, definitely powerful; I'm not sure about pompous, but if they were subjected to the investigative journalism, maybe they would come out whiter than white, but if they weren't then their misdeeds are much more in the public interest as rich and powerful people than me as a TV presenter/singer or my friends.
Church says the PCC is not worth complaining to.
There is a massive problem to deal with and they just don't deal with the problems, they don't deal with it at all.
There's a massive financial implication just in submitting a complaint, Church says.
The damage is done once it's in print. It's been disseminated all over the internet or other publications It just feels a little pointless.
Earlier this month, the People newspaper suggested Church was going to get married with a splash headline "Marryoke". The paper had not contacted her.
She contacted the newspaper to say it was untrue and defamatory and there are ongoing legal proceedings.
Counsel for the inquiry Carine Patry Hoskins says it has been contacted by the publisher and says:
The People have now published a correction and an apology ? on 2 of yesterday's edition.
Church says she has seen this but it isn't good enough. She was seeking an apology on agreed terms on how it was written, and how there were quotes from her partners when it was totally made up.
A recent article claimed Church was drunk in a pub. It was "a complete fabrication".
The photograph to illustrate the article, she said, was from 2007 and a radio show she was doing with Chris Moyles.
It was a massively out of date photo.They phoned my publicist very late on Friday and asked what the nature of my relationship was ? they didn't give much away and therefore neither did we.
Within 36 hours it was picked up by 71 outlets and reported as fact.
The rest of the press picked up the story and the New York Post's headline was "Voice of an angel spews venom".
Church says her record company deemed it necessary to hire police guards.
The interviewer, Jasper Gerard, had asked her a lot of questions. She thought she had done really well. She was still used to interviews asking her about her favourite colour.
She recalls she had criticised a TV show for "demeaning" the firefighters by making them present an award for best soap.
This was turned into criticism of the firefighters as "celebrities".
I'd flown back from New York. The record company had set up the interview with me, that's quite normal. I felt at the time that the interview was going really well, he was asking interesting questions. It felt totally different and new. When I eventually saw the piece I was totally shellshocked. No one had sat it on the interview with me so I had the Sony people saying, have you said this, what's going on? I had to defend myself for ages against things that I was alleged to have said.
When I eventually saw the piece I was just totally shellshocked. Nobody had sat in the piece, nobody was taping it from our side ? I was alleged to have said ?
One of the most denigrating claims was the one about the "celebrity" firefighters. The comment was not disparaging, it was the reverse.
Church says she asked for the tape of the interview and the Times refused to release it ? "it was a terrible experience".
She is now talking about an article in the Times, although counsel for the inquiry says it may have been the Sunday Times.
The article concerned the 9/11 atrocity and Church, who was 14 at the time, was spending a lot of time in New York.
Her manager had organised a visit to Ground Zero, fire stations and some benefit gigs.
Church says one of the worst things for her was an article that claimed she and her friends had a nickname for an overweight friend. She had never ever spoken about her friend in this way.
She didn't complain to the PCC, she tells Leveson.
The damage is already done, there are no repercussions and it doesn't help. Most of the time I didn't bother. The sporadic nature of them [her complaints to the PCC] is when I just had enough and therefore had gone to the PCC to made a complaint.
Saying nothing is best; you just have to put up and shut up and that's the way it is.
She is told that her first boyfriend sold stories about her and that was a sign of things to come. It happened again with a boyfriend she had when she was 19.
Church says it was terrible to think somebody like her grandmother could read intimate details of her love life.
Basically there was always paparazzi around, always journalists around trying to speak to friends, money in order to talk or give a quote. My first boyfriend sold a story on me when I was 17 and that was pretty dreadful. I remember thinking why is it OK that someone senior in a newspaper could pay an unemployed boy from Cardiff tens of thousands of pounds to reveal intimate sexual details about another 17-year-old girl from Cardiff?
Church was subsequently shown another file which had more information than Mulcaire's notes.
[It was] a massive black book which seemed to be full of information when I was 19, more than Glenn Mulcaire. Information about me, friends, family; criminal records, DVLA records, mobile numbers and house numbers. We were just completely taken aback.
She is asked if there were transcripts of phone calls.
This was something my dad recalled. I remember something to do with live interception of phone calls.
Church adds:
To find out that they were hacked and you had accused these people, you're left with a feeling of guilt. It wasn't my fault for accusing people.
When Church's new born baby Ruby was born she wanted to keep it secret for about a week. It appeared in the papers within two days and she accused her family but she now realised that could be "entirely down to hacking".
Church says her phone was hacked when she was just 17.
The police have told her that her phone messages were monitored and intercepted by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
She first found out that earlier this year when she was contacted by the police who showed her his notes.
She says:
[They had] passwords, pin numbers, phone numbers of lots of people in my life, my mother, my father, their friends, my friends, my old boyfriend's number, it was quite substantial.
The hacking related to 2003 to 2006.
Church tells the inquiry that the press were interested in her from the start of her career.
When I was younger, it was a commodity that I was this small girl with a big operatic voice therefore you needed to see it. As a TV presenter definitely you need the press more than as a musician. They do aid people and encourage people to watch your shows and know when they are on and so on.
If you have a show on television or a book you're signed to a company and contractually obliged to promote that product. I was obliged to do so and I didn't really have any formal training from when I was 12.
She says she had no guide to help her deal with the intense interest in her life.
Categorically, no. I think there is no rulebook for dealing with the tabloid press. I've tried lots of different approaches. They made up stories and used old photographs.
She described how she was made a prisoner in her own life. She shopped online to avoid going outside her house.
There were six to eight photographers outside her house throughout her pregnancy.
She agrees that interest comes with being famous, but wanted to try something different to get rid of the press ahead of the birth of her baby.
She decided to do a deal with celebrity magazine.
Whilst I'm giving birth to my first child I'm well aware there are six photographers outside my house. By signing that exclusivity deal I thought I was reducing the value of paparazzi photographs.
Church then reads out some of the article.
"Superstar singer Charlotte Church's mum tried to kill herself because of ?" she reads.
It was totally sensationalised, whether partially or wholly true. And I just really hated the fact that my parents who had never been in this industry ? apart from looking after me ? were being exposed and vilified in this fashion. It had a massive massive impact on my family life.
They knew how vulnerable she was and still printed this story, which was just horrific. I see no public interest at all, other than to sell papers.
It just had a massive impact on my mother's health, her mental health, her hospital treatment ? the only way they know about that was either through the hacking or the bribing of hospital staff.
They knew how vulnerable she was but still published the story, which was horrific.
She is now talking about the News of the World's allegations that her father had an affair headlined "Church three in a bed cocaine shock".
The NoW reported that my father was having an affair. I'm not sure whether we were given knowledge of this article being published to comment on it ?
I'm just not sure how it came about. The front-page headline had my picture behind it.
I think I've just blanked out how bad these articles were.
Church is now alking about a kidnap plot reported by News of the World.
A lot of this information about kidnap stuff really was kept from me to protect me and my sanity.
The News of the World deemed it acceptable to publish that there was a kidnap plot.
I asked the publication not to print in any terms where I lived, but they did.
It was really quite exact.
The PCC upheld Church's complaint against the Sun.
The Sun said it had received firm information that she was pregnant. The newspaper was told the information was private and would not be commented on; despite this the newspaper referred to her pregnancy.
When Church found herself pregnant with her first baby the Sun ran a story titled "Church sober shock".
It was the first trimester and it was very sensitive time.
She doesn't know if her phone was hacked but says she just can't see it came from any other route.
My family were really upset that it had come out in this way. It was my news to tell and they took that away from me.
It should have been left up to me to tell people ? the PCC complaint was upheld. But what does that mean? There was a small retraction but I just don't think that would deter another paper in the future.
Audio of Charlotte Church talking about press intrusion:
She adds:
At different times there were different levels of interest. I don't live in London so a lot of photographers would have to travel. Generally from 16 to 18 there was at least one photographer for most days and by most days I mean five out of seven days. If there was a story at the time, they would be there all the time ? maybe six to eight of them.
Church also tells the inquiry how photographers tried to take pictures up her skirt.
Church reveals how photographers had cut a hole in a hedge near her home so they could track her every move.
My manager and said he'd found a camera and that there was something cut out of the hedge. There was really no other person in the world who would do that other than the press.
It had happened before, but not quite so dramatically.
Church is talking about the runup to her 16th birthday. The paper had a "countdown clock" on its website, which she found was "a little bizarre".
How did it make her feel? "Just horrible," she says. "I was a 16-year-old girl and I was really uncomfortable with it."
She says she was flown in on Murdoch's private jet from LA to New York.
Church is now talking about this sensational disclosure:
I remember being told that Murdoch had asked me to perform at his wedding to Wendi Deng in New York on his yacht. I remember being told of the offer of the favour ? to get good press ? and I also remember being 13 and thinking why would anyone take a favour of �100,000?
But I was being advised by my management and certain member of the record company that he was a very very powerful man and could certainly do with a favour of this magnitude.
News International has denied the allegations. It says that Church's performance was a surprise to Murdoch.
But Church claims she received a specific request from Murdoch to sing Pie Jesu.
She is now talking about an incident when she was 13 years old and she was asked to perform at Rupert Murdoch's wedding to Wendi Deng in New York.
The Leveson inquiry's junior counsel tells the hearing:
She was told by management there would be �100,000 or if her fee was waived she would be looked upon favouraby by Rupert Murdoch's papers.
Yes, that is correct, says.
She was convinced into taking the latter.
Church started life as a singer aged 11.
There was a massive amount of interest right from the start, because I didn't have any skeletons; they kind of treated me with kid gloves.
They were always at my school, but at that time it didn't feel that intrusive; it was all rather new, totally exciting and different
Is started to change when I was about 14. It got more negative and got more intrusive.
Church has revealed that paparazzi have made her life totally public.
She hasn't had a holiday since she was 16 without their presence and blames a network of paid tipsters as well as paparazzi for her lack of privacy.
They will follow me wherever I go, taking my children to nursery even though I've asked expressly for them not to take photographed.
It's everywhere. There's a shadow network, concierges; restaurants; the airlines; I haven't been on a holiday since I was 16 where I haven't been found and photographed.
Much of that was bought information.
Charlotte Church is now taking the stand. Wearing a black suit and top, she looks composed. She says however she has never given evidence before.
She's agreed to testify because she thinks the things she went through when she was younger ? from the age of 12 ? show that it is "imperative that children are protected"
I've agreed to be here today because I think that the things I went through when I was quite young, I was a minor, 12 years old, I want to show through my experiences that it's imperative that children are protected.
Leveson is now back. Robert Jay tells Leveson he can see arguments for both sides of the argument as to whether Alastair Campbell's statement should be published on the Leveson website.
Jay has said that Paul Staines, otherwise known as Guido Fawkes should make "appropriate immediate effects" with regards the Alastair Campbell statement.
Leveson is returning 15 minutes early today ?�the inquiry is resuming at 1.45pm when we will hear from Charlotte Church and former breakfast host Anne Diamond.
We should also hear whether Alastair Campbell's evidence will be officially published on the Leveson website.
Tom Watson has just tweeted this:
Remarkable: Read Ian Hurst's testimony to #Leveson on the Guardian live feed
Here is a lunchtime summary of today's evidence so far:
? Chris Jefferies tells how he was portrayed as a "creepy oddball", a "pervert" and a "peeping Tom".
? He says he will "never fully recover" from the libellous coverage of his arrest.
? He says the PCC did not acknowledge a request to investigate the "scurrilous reporting".
? Jefferies says despite his vindication some people will always "retain the impression that I am a very weird character indeed who is best avoided".
? Former army intelligence officer Ian Hurst alleges corruption at the highest level at the Met police and calls on Leveson to investigate.
? He says News of the World hacked his computer using "Trojan" software that collected his emails.
? The head of British Irish Rights Watch, Jame Winter, says the hacking of Hurst's phone compromised her organisation's security because of the highly sensitive nature of their work.
The Leveson inquiry has broken for an extended lunch while counsel discuss "administrative issues" in relation to the Alastair Campbell evidence and whether it will be published today.
The inquiry will resume at 1.45pm, with Anne Diamond and Charlotte Church scheduled to appear.
Jane Winter's evidence has now concluded. It was short but reinforced the allegations Hurst made.
"This ripple effect is particularly chilling for an organisation such as BIRW, which handles extremely senstive information and can compromise the security of people," says Jay.
Winter's written statement says that it is not clear that her intercepted messages were being used for publication, and that is something that should be investigated.
Winter says that when she heard the documents had been compromised a lot of vulnerable witnesses would lose confidence in her charity.
From the point of view of my organisation, we really rely on trust and confidentiality ? when I first heard these documents had been compromised, my first thought was when all of the people involved in this will lose confidence in us.
That is a very chilling thought for an organisation like us ? it is a real issue for us. This could dent our reputation for confidentiality.
Robert Jay, counsel to the inquiry, says: "If you hack into one person's computer you see a panoply of information that may derive from third parties such as yourself."
Mr X, the hacker referred to earlier by Hurst, had documents on her, but she was not aware if her computer was hacked or not.
Winter says she has spoken to the Met police about hacking. Police showed her attachments of emails, not the actual content of emails themselves, Winter says.
"They were both very confidential and sensitive," she adds.
Lord Justice Leveson says the peace process is an "extra dimension among many other dimensions" in his own inquiry into press ethics.
Winter says she was told by Ian Hurst earlier this year that documents she had sent to him had been illegally accessed. "I was aware that his computer had been hacked, but I didn't know correspondence with me was involved," she says.
Jane Winter, a peace campaigner and charity worker in Northern Ireland who runs British Irish Rights Watch, is appearing now.
Hurst says he will provide the inquiry with more evidence. He says he he understands when Leveson points out that the inquiry will deal with the press's relationship with the police in part two.
Then Hurst alleges that there is corruption at the highest level of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Hurst calls on Leveson to "ask that the MPS provide you with all intelligence of police corruption including that at very highest level. It is there, it is at the highest level and out there with journalists today."
Hurst says the MPS "has let society down they should be making a full disclosure".
Hurst then reads a statement that was made during the filming of the Panorama programme:
Andy Coulson was the editor [of the News of the World] and he is fucking big pals with a lot of powerful people including police officers.
Hurst then declares to the inquiry:
That is exactly what you are dealing with here ladies and gentlemen ? corruption.
In April 2009 when Mr X was arrested, documents showed that the security of his wife, who is a nurse, had been compromised. Mr X had documents including her CV, her pin numbers, documents concerned with her telephone, address, and phone records.
"There's copious amount of knowledge that the police had," says Hurst.
Hurst tells how the police knew from 2007 that his computer had been hacked.
In February 2007 documents were recovered from a hard drive involved in a separate investigation. At that stage this person's phone records had been obtained and News of the World had paid �850 for that.
Because the subject of those phone records and I were linked, the police were aware in 2007 that directly and unambiguously that I and muy family's security had been compromised.
That information was then leaked to a journalist and used in a book in 2008.
Documents seized in 2007 by the police show the security on his computer had been compromised and information had been obtained from it.
The Metropolitan police did not tell Hurst of the hacking of his computer until October 2011.
The inquiry hears that the hackers were not interested in Hurst's private life, but his work in the intelligence community in northern Ireland.
They were looking to obtain a commercial advantage as well, claims Hurst.
He adds they were also trying to obtain information on an IRA informer.
Hurst indicates he has this week received fresh information about the source of the Trojan, but this information is disallowed from the inquiry because it is not in his written statement.
For clarity he confirms that he does not believe Mr X was the source of the Trojan, which he says leaves "fragments" on the hard drive even after it self-destructs.
"It is not an interpretation ? people tell you porkie pies and you try and separate the wood from the trees. You do that by evidence, not conjecture," says Hurst.
He does not accept that the email came from Mr X, but from a newspaper contact.
Hurst says the Trojan was programmed to be on the hard drive for three months and then it self-destructed.
The hacker admitted that he placed it [the Trojan] on Hurst's hard drive.
"We know there was a Trojan on the hard drive and I have seen the evidence."
Hurst sent him an email with an attachment which he opened and that was it.
He said he thinks he sent it from a bogus email address.
Hurst says:
We had a meeting. I had known Mr X for number of years, we had a drink and in a relaxed atmosphere he made it clear these events took place a long time ago ? there was nothing personal, it was professional, which I accepted.
He outlined the majority of people involved in the conspiracy. He was keen to leave out one or two for his own personal reasons and he more or less charted the events from the middle of June 2006, he states for a three-month period, and all documents he could access via Trojan - emails, hard drive, social media.
He didn't say this, but the Trojan would have allowed [him see through the cam], the webcam, so he could have actually seen me or the kids at the desk.
Hurst says:
I was aware that there was probably gaps in knowledge by the BBC. The reality was that we needed to confront him ? I needed to extract that information to put together the jigsaw puzzle.
During the making of the documentary he confronted Mr X and met him in a local hotel.
X said he was not surprised that you had made contact. He had heard a few days earlier that Panorama "were sniffing around".
The private investigator had employed a private detective who specialised in computer viruses to do the computer hacking job.
This individual was known to Hurst as he had served in the intelligence forces in northern Ireland for three years.
He tells how his computer was hacked by a "Trojan horse". He says the military Trojans would have been quite sophisticated because they would have contained in a "micro-dot" or a "full stop" but the newspaper Trojans were not so sophisticated because they required someone to open an attachement.
He had been shown a seven-page fax by the BBC. This contained material from July 2006 which was "not only material from his computer" but also "one particular extract from an email and other material that hadn't been directly related" to his computer.
"It was a precis of information they had collected and forwarded to Dublin [to the News of the World headquarters in Ireland]."
The Panorama team covertly filmed one of the computer hackers involved. The film was shot over two-and-a-half hours and this was cut to about one minute.
He told the BBC that he believed one of his computers was hacked by the News of the World.
He went to live in France in 1994 but has maintained links with his previous work.
He goes on to discuss the Panorama documentary about the phone and computer hacking row that was engulfing the News of the World. It was broadcast in March 2011 and contained an interview with Hurst.
Here is Roy Greenslade's coverage of the programme at the time.
His statement is redacted because of a gagging order ? an injunction brought by the Crown against him in 1999.
He says his job was to recruit, develop and exploit agents in republican paramilitary organisations.
Hurst was a "handler" in northern Ireland and acted as one of the British army's contacts for IRA spies.
He served in covert units between 1980 and 1991 in northern Ireland.
Leveson is now back. Ian Hurst, the former British army intelligence officer, is the next witness.
The inquiry has now taken a five-minute break.
Jefferies finishes his evidence by saying:
I very much hope that as a result of the present inquiry, it will be possible to put in a place arrangements whereby it will be very difficult indeed for newspapers to in the future behave in the way they did in my case.
Jefferies says the libel actions completely cleared him of any involvement in the murder and also of any improper behaviour in his past.
However he says he "will never fully recover from the events" and the "incalculable" effect will "be difficult ever to escape".
He tells Leveson:
The smears were so extensive, it's true to say there will always be people who don't know me, who will retain the impression that I am some sort of very weird character indeed who is best avoided.
Jefferies says the bias against him was not confined to tabloid newspapers.
He doesn't identify the paper, but cites one broadsheet that ignored reader protests about the coverage of his arrest.
I am aware that quite a large number of people complained about a newspaper. None of those letters were published in that broadsheet and there was no response to those letters even when one of their columnists brought them to the attention to the editor.
Jefferies says the apologies in the newspapers were printed "on page 2 towards the top of the page". He received no communication from the editors of the papers that made payouts.
Jefferies wrote to the PCC complaining about the "scurrilous reporting of an innocent man". In a lengthy written appeal for action he said:
In the coverage of my case there was flagrant lawlessness. Newspapers searching for sensation and increased sales will take almost any risk.
He tells Leveson he didn't receive an acknowledgement from the PCC.
?�11.55am UPDATE: The PCC has responded to Jefferies's comment as follows:
That is regrettable and we will be writing to him to explain the position.
We contacted him (via his representatives) on a number of occasions since he first came to attention, including the letter requesting his comments to which he has referred. We are still considering all of the circumstances of his case, with a view to making use of it for the purposes of reform. The PCC proactively made itself available to Mr Jefferies, including after the end of the libel trial. We are actively considering the points he has made to us.
Jefferies says the director of the PCC, Stephen Abell, wrote to his solicitor indicating that it would wish to examine how the problems arose and how they could be prevented.
Jefferies also gave an interview to ITV which can be seen here. He gave it to ITV because he used to teach the reporter.
Leveson says "it was worse than that" ? it was "damaging" and "false".
Jefferies says:
It is incontestable that the whole slanting of the coverage was as sensational as it was exploitative, as titillating to appeal in every possible way to people's voyeuristic instincts.
Jefferies did give one interview. It was with Brian Cathcart for the Financial Times, published on 8 October.
He said Cathcart did a good job of "distilling" his experience.
Legal proceedings are never speedy, says Jefferies, and it took three months for his case to come to court. Jay says "that is pretty fast".
Some of the newspapers admitted liability and agreed to pay damages.
Jefferies then launched libel proceedings against eight newspapers ? the Sun, the Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, the Scotsman, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mirror.
Here's a link to the Guardian's story at the time.
On 4 March, the police lifted Jefferies's bail conditions.
Jefferies said the period preceding was hell:
It was the most difficult period I have spent living this hole-in-corner existence with my life in effect being in abeyance.
A statement by Yeates's boyfriend Greg Riordan was more or less ignored by the press in relation to Jefferies.
The third article which attracted contempt proceedings was on the Daily Mirror on New Year's Day. It was headlined: "Was killer waiting in Jo's flat?"
Jefferies says it suggested that because he was the the landlord and had keys to the flat he must have been waiting there for Yeates's return.
An article in the Daily Mirror on 31 December 2010 which was the subject of contempt of court proceedings was headlined "Jo suspect is peeping tom".
"It appears to be linking you to an old murder and paedophile crimes," Robert Jay the counsel for the inquiry notes.
A Sun article titled "The strange Mr Jefferies" referred to him as "WEIRD 'Strange talk, strange walk'; POSH 'Loved culture, poetry'; LEWD 'Made sexual remarks'; CREEPY 'Loner with blue rinse hair'". It also branded him a "creepy oddball".
Another article was headlined "Murder police quiz nutty professor".
There were more than 40 articles cited in Jefferies' evidence.
Three of the articles were held in contempt of court including the Sun, which reported "Jo suspect scared kids - obsessed by death", and an article in the Daily Mirror asking "Was killer waiting in Jo's flat?".
The inquiry hears how the press protrayed Jefferies as some sort of sexual deviant.
It was certainly suggested that there may well have been some sort of sexual motive for the murder of Joanna Yeates and ... it was suggested in some of the articles that I was gay.
So that created a bit of a problem as far as that line goes. There was another suggestion that I was a bisexual. The press were trying to have it every possible way.
The impact of these photographs was that I was instantly recognisable. It would be fair to say that I had a distinctive appearance and it was a result of the entire world knowing what I looked like. It was suggested to me that I ought to change my appearance so I wouldn't be recognised and harassed by the media.
Sources often had very spurious links to him.
One of them just happened to live in a flat that he had owned.
Somebody who was not on the staff of the establishment where I was teaching ? had at one time lived in one of the flats in the building where I live. He had sold that flat to somebody else, who sold it to another person, it was that person who I eventually bought the flat. There was a very considerable gap [between buying the flat from the person].
Jefferies says reporters were so good at hunting him down, they were like private detectives.
The efforts which some members of the press went to to contact some of these people was extraordinary and worthy of private detectives, I would have thought.
A number of those who were contacted by the press refused to make any statements. Very many of the comments contained in the articles published are not attributed ? only a handful are attributed. I haven't been in contact with any of those whose names have been attached to supposed quotations.
Jefferies says he felt he was under "house arrest" after his release from custody, besieged by press.
I was very strongly advised not to go out. If it had have been apparent where I was staying those friends would have been beseiged by reporters and photographers.
In effect for a period after I was released I was effectively under house arrest and went from friends to friends, rather as if I was a recusant priest at the time of the Reformation going from safe house to safe house.
During the time Jefferies was in custody he was not aware of the reporting by the press.
When he was released, his solicitor outlined in "general terms" what the press coverage had been.
They suggested that it might be good for his "psychological health" that he didn't read the coverage.
At this point the press were also talking to his neighbours, but at that point they had not got in contact with any former pupils or relatives.
Jefferies is asked whether there was any interest by the press before the arrest.
Jefferies says the press were interested in the second statement he had given to the police.
They had a "garbled version" of this statement, Jefferies says.
The inquiry is now setting the scene for Jefferies testimony. It was 17 December last year when Joanne Yeates disappeared. Jefferies was arrested at 7am on 30 December and released on police bail on 1 January 2011.
Jefferies, who is well spoken and composed, is now running through his career. He is now retired, and owns three flats in Bristol.
Jefferies, a former schoolteacher, won a case against two papers for contempt in their coverage; the Sun was fined �18,000, and the Daily Mirror �50,000.
It must be singularly unpleasant to relive the events that you lived through, Leveson tells Jefferies.
Chris Jefferies is now taking the stand.
Dan Sabbagh, our head of media, tweets:
Brilliant. Paul Staines who is opposed press regulation, is now summoned to Leveson. Statutory regulation right there.
Here are profiles of today's witnesses:
Christopher Jefferies
This time last year Christopher Jefferies was an anonymous former English teacher from Bristol. His life was turned upside down over a manic fortnight of tabloid intrusion in December, after he was arrested and later released without charge over the murder of the architect Joanna Yeates. His public "character assassination", as Jefferies' solicitor later described it, led to Britain's tabloid press appearing in the dock over charges of libel and contempt of court. Eight titles ? the Sun, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Scotsman and Daily Express ? agreed to pay Jefferies substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures, in July. The Sun and Daily Mirror were separately fined �18,000 and �50,000 respectively for contempt of court.
Ian Hurst
Hurst is a former British army intelligence officer who worked in Northern Ireland. His computer was allegedly hacked by the News of the World, which was supposedly searching for details of an IRA informer. Hurst claims that a private investigator confirmed to him that he placed a Trojan virus on his hard drive to obtain emails over a three-month period for the News of the World. This is now the subject of a Scotland Yard investigation. The BBC's Panorama filmed Hurst being shown copies of information allegedly obtained from his computer. The programme claimed the investigator was commissioned by Alex Marunchak, a former News of the World journalist who was a senior figure at the paper. Hurst is suing the owner of the defunct paper, Rupert Murdoch's News International, in the high court.
Jane Winter
A peace campaigner and charity worker in Northern Ireland who runs British Irish Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation which monitors human rights abuses on both sides of the political and religious divide.
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church will tell the Leveson inquiry how the News of the World in 2005 printed lurid details of her father's alleged extramarital affair allegedly gleaned from voicemail messages left on the singer's phone. Through intercepted voicemail messages, the paper is alleged to have learned that Church's mother was admitted to hospital shortly before the story was published after attempting to commit suicide. Barrister David Sherborne told the Leveson inquiry that the News of the World then approached Church's mother and persuaded her to an exclusive interview about the affair, in return for not publishing further "lurid" details gleaned from alleged voicemail intercepts. "When people talk of public interest in exposing the private lives of well-known people or those close to them this, is the real, brutally real impact, which this kind of journalism has," Sherborne said.
Anne Diamond
Former breakfast TV presenter Anne Diamond insists her battle with News International began over two decades ago, when she asked Rupert Murdoch at a party how it felt to own newspapers that ruin people's lives. "You can't do that to a newspaper mogul," David Sherborne told the Leveson inquiry. Diamond is expected to tell the inquiry how she felt when the Sun published a front page picture of her holding her son's coffin at his funeral in 1991. On a separate occasion, the Sun was accused of paying the Diamond family's nanny to reveal intimate details about her alleged relationship with Diamond's husband.
Leveson shows his displeasure with Guido Fawkes. "It wasn't how I was envisaging spending Sunday evening either," he says referring to the leak last night on Fawkes blog.
The judge say he is concerned to "deprive" Guido Fawkes of that "oxygen" of publicity.
He says he will be summoning Paul Staines to explain how he got the testimony.
I intend to issue notice under section 21 of the Inquiries Act requiring him to disclose how he came about the evidence ... and requiring him to give evidence.
Caplan says:
The fact is that although the leak itself has been widely published the contents of Mr Campbell's statement it appears have not been widely disseminated. The content of Mr Campbell's statement make a number of points against a number of organisations and individuals.
Jonathan Caplan, counsel for Associated Newspapers, does not want Campbell's statement to be published today.
Leveson says his view last night was that it should be published today ? two days in advance ? this is affording people 72 hours' notice in advance.
Leveson says he does not want to give Guido Fawkes "the oxygen of additional publicity" and is minded to have the Campbell testimony published.
Leveson says he is "concerned for the future" and has warned anyone who leaks testimony that they can be referred to the high court for "appropriate action".
He has reminded those at the hearing that section 19 of the Inquiries Act restricts the publication or disclosure whether in whole or in part ? outside the confidentiality circle which comprises Leveson, his assessors, the core inquiry team, the core participants ? any statement prior to the making of the statement orally.
The blogger got hold of Campbell's draft statement and published it three days before he was due to appear. Normally the statement is not made available until the witness is sworn in.
I am obviously concerned about the security of the information that is available and to maintain the integrity of the inquiry as we move forward.
As a result I am intending to inquire ... into the circumstances in which this statement came to be made available for publication.
The inquiry has now opened and Lord Justice Leveson is talking about Guido Fawkes' leak of Alastair Campbell's witness statement.
Roy Greenslade today writes how many veteran journalists were appalled by the evidence given at the Leveson inquiry last week:
Evidence given to the Leveson inquiry last week appalled many veteran journalists. Among them was John Dale ? a former national newspaper reporter and magazine editor ? who wrote on the gentlemenranters site of "journalistic corruption and debasement" that "shamed Fleet Street."
Another hardened old hand, Jim Cassidy, was disgusted too. As the editor of two red-tops ? the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail and, briefly, theSunday Mirror ? he knows the business from the inside.
I am pleased to act as host to his passionate response to the revelations of the first week's hearings...
Do journalists cry? Do editors cry? Do photographers cry? They should. They do. They must. I advise any of the journalists due to attend court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice over the next week to stop and take some time out at prayer room E131.
There, they can find time to reflect, pray and perhaps shed a few tears for the hurt, anguish and pain they have caused...
At the Leveson inquiry today is Dan Sabbagh - you can follow him on @dansabbagh.
On the live blog today are Lisa O'Carroll and Josh Halliday ? you can follow them on Twitter at @lisaocarroll and @JoshHalliday.
James Robinson ? @jamesro47 ? is also in court to cover an application by Steve Coogan and former Max Clifford PR Nicola Phillips to force former private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to reveal who ordered him to hack into phones. The hearing begins at 10.30am.
We will bring you the latest as soon as it breaks.
Lord Justice Leveson yesterday summoned Guido Fawkes blogger Paul Staines to give evidence to the inquiry after his website published evidence from Alastair Campbell three days before it was due to be publicly heard.
Evidence has not previously been made available to the public or the press until the witness is sworn in, but the leak was apparently of a draft Campbell testimony.
Good morning and welcome to day eight at the Leveson inquiry.
The paparazzi will be centre stage again today, with singer Charlotte Church describing how she has been tailed by photographers throughout her life but particularly when she started dating rugby player Gavin Henson.
Former army intelligence officer Ian Hurst will testify on his experience on northern Ireland where he alleges he was spied on by press interested in his job as a "handler" for IRA informers.
Newspaper stories about alleged spy Freddie Scappaticci and murdered solicitor Pat Finucane are expected to be raised.
Hurst believes someone acting for a newspaper infected his computer with a Trojan virus to try and establish Scappaticci's whereabouts and to source information about Martin McGuinness.
Also taking the stand today is former breakfast TV presenter Anne Diamond; Chris Jefferies, the Bristol landlord wrongly linked to the murder of Joanne Yeates; and Jane Winter, a peace campaigner who has worked in northern Ireland.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/nov/28/leveson-inquiry-charlotte-church-anne-diamond-live
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