Rav singh phone hacking

Mr Best, son of late football George Best, had been "bragging" about having "close mates inside News of the World", a journalist had told Mr Coulson in an email. The jury heard the email was sent after the newspaper took a call from Ms Hogan complaining that Mr Best had contacted her ahead of publication of the story. The model was said to have claimed Mr Best "must have been alerted from within News of the World and that she had a similar text before our other story on pregnancy.

She believes he is being tipped off in advance. Nine days earlier, Stuart Kuttner, then managing editor of the NoW, was copied into an email containing a list of "unbilled calls from Rav Singh", the jury heard. The Old Bailey today revisited an email between Coulson and former news editor Ian Edmondson which contained the order.

However, Coulson was asking Edmondson to check the phone records of News of the World showbiz reporter Rav Singh who was suspected of leaking information to Best — Coulson's defence lawyer claims. The trial over alleged phone-hacking at the Sunday red top was shown an email sent by NoW reporter Chris Tate to Edmondson on the morning of 20 May about a story involving Calum Best and Lorna Hogan, who claimed to be having his child.

The jury heard that hours after the email was sent, Coulson sent a message to Edmondson asking, "you think Calum a leak? Edmondson replied claiming Best had been "bragging" about having "close mates inside News of the World", the court heard. The court heard that Tate's email was not initially found by police and only came to light in October, five or six days before the trial opened. The jury was told that on 11 May Stuart Kuttner, then managing editor of the NoW, was copied into an email containing a list of "unbilled calls from Rav Singh".

Records showed that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire hacked Singh's phone on four occasions on 21 March , the court heard. Follow RT on.

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