A NEWSPAPER editor yesterday rejected claims from author Justine Delaney-Wilson that his reporters put her under so much pressure she had to destroy her taped recordings of a minister confessing to taking cocaine.

A newspaper editor today denied his staff put so much pressure on journalist Justine Delaney Wilson that she was forced to destroy an alleged recording of a government minister admitting he took cocaine.

Ireland on Sunday editor Martin Clarke has left the paper to become executive editor of Britain’s Mail on Sunday.