Reporter recruited by News of the World for hacking ability

A former tabloid reporter has claimed he was recruited from the Sunday Mirror to join the News of the World partly because of his knowledge of phone hacking.

Dan Evans told the Old Bailey that he was approached by staff from the News of the World three times before he finally resigned from the Sunday Mirror in Oct 2004 and left three months later.

He said: “I was bringing phone-hacking techniques and methodology. I was bringing a pretty lengthy list of phone-hacking targets. People whose voicemails had been intercepted, general skills to perpetuate that activity.”