As the first former News of the World reporter to claim publicly that his old friend and boss Andy Coulson had "actively encouraged" him to hack into voicemail messages, Mr Hoare, who was thought to be in his forties, was likely to have been a key witness in the judicial inquiry into hacking. He would probably also have been called to appear at any criminal proceedings brought by police against senior editors and executives at News International.

Friends of the pair said that Mr Coulson, who is holidaying in Cornwall, was shocked by the latest development.

Officers were called to a first-floor flat at a modern block in Watford yesterday morning after concerns for Mr Hoare's welfare were raised by a family member. His body was found and he was pronounced dead shortly after ambulance and police arrived.

Details surrounding Mr Hoare's death were unclear last night, with the police yet to inform family members or formally to identify the body. Two officers were on duty outside the entrance last night and the curtains were drawn.

In a statement, Hertfordshire Constabulary said the "death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious".

Inspector Rod Reeves said that a family member had become concerned when Mr Hoare had not returned calls. He would not comment on where Mr Hoare's body was found in the flat, but said he was alone.

He is understood to have lived in the block with his partner, Jo.

A neighbour said: "I feared the worst a couple of months ago. He wasn't looking in great shape physically. He was not his usual, bubbly, friendly self."

Another neighbour said Mr Hoare was "paranoid" about people seeing him and spoke of a "conspiracy" and that he was afraid of the police and the Government. "He talked about all sorts of problems that he had in his life. A lot of it was alcohol-related. His passage through life has not been an easy one." The neighbour added: "He said he was in trouble and he was worried about people coming to get him."

Tributes were paid to Mr Hoare on Twitter last night with David Yelland, a former Editor of The Sun, writing: "Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God."

Mr Hoare was sacked from the News of the World by Mr Coulson because of the effects his drink and drug problems were having on his health. Mr Hoare, who had previously worked with Mr Coulson on The Sun's Bizarre showbiz section and later at the Sunday People under Neil Wallis, was notorious on Fleet Street for his destructive lifestyle.

He told a fellow journalist of his "rock star's breakfast" - Jack Daniels and a line of cocaine. He said he took three grams of cocaine a day, which cost him about $1500 a week.

"Everyone got overconfident. We thought we could do coke, go to Brown's, sit in the Red Room with Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence. Everyone got a bit carried away," he once told The Guardian.

Former colleagues said that his dismissal had left him bitter and resentful. In an interview with the New York Times he claimed that Mr Coulson not only knew of phone hacking at the News of the World but he had "actively encouraged" it. He said he had played tape recordings of hacked messages for Mr Coulson. His allegations were heavily rejected by his former boss, who had become David Cameron's Director of Communications in May last year.

He made stronger allegations in a subsequent interview with the BBC, claiming Mr Coulson had personally asked him to hack phones and that the practice was "endemic".

In September last year he was interviewed by police about his claims but would not make a further comment, according to Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions. He was understood to be affronted when John Yates, then the Met's Assistant Commissioner, instructed officers to interview him as a suspect, rather than as a witness.

Then, a week before his death, he made separate allegations again to the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World had paid police to use technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, a technique called "pinging".

Although he was known to be in ill health and smoked and drank, he was still active. He recently attended a weekend children's party and had been injured taking down the marquee. He told The Guardian that he had broken his nose and injured his foot when he was struck by the pole.

One neighbour said last night: "He was physically going down hill. He was yellow in colour and wasn't looking well for the last month and was off sorts and I was really worrying about him.

"He had a constant struggle with alcohol and talked to me about how much he had put his wife through. He was talking about how he was in trouble and that he thought someone was going to come and get him, but I didn't known whether to believe half the stuff he was saying. He did say something about phone hacking and I think that was his main worry."

Phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Sean Hoare, the reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the 

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Fleet Street whistleblower James Hipwell, who says the News of the World was not the only newspaper to hack phones. Source:The Australian

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James Hipwell, 45, told The Australian Online he saw show business reporters on the Daily Mirror regularly intercept voicemail messages when he worked there from 1998 to 2000.

He says he's likely to make himself available to testify to the judicial inquiry into the scandal.

Hipwell is the only Fleet Street whistleblower who is offering to go on the record with accounts of voicemail hacking at newspapers other than the News of the World, which was closed down by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation two weeks ago.

“I know that for one simple reason: I used to see it going on around me all the time when I worked at the Daily Mirror,” he said in an interview that will appear in The Australian tomorrow.

“I sat right next to the show business desk and there were some show biz reporters who did it as a matter of course, as a basic part of their working day.

“One of their bosses would wander up and instruct a reporter to `trawl the usual suspects', which meant going through the voice messages of celebrities and celebrity PR agents.”

“For everyone to pretend that this is some isolated activity found only at the News of the World is ridiculous, it's just a lie.”

Hipwell said that depending on legal advice he would be willing to speak to the police and to the inquiry headed by Lord Justice Brian Leveson into the hacking scandal and the future regulation of Britain's press.

Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, denied Hipwell's claims, issuing a statement declaring that: “Our journalists work within the criminal law and the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct.”

Chris Hughes, a show business reporter during Hipwell's time at the Mirror who has since become a defence correspondent, told The Australian Online that he had never hacked voicemails or been aware of the practice at the Mirror.

The first whistleblower in the scandal, Sean Hoare, worked at Trinity Mirror's Sunday People as well as News Corporation's Sun and News of the World, but he died this week from what was rumoured to be a drug overdose.

Paul McMullan, the other prominent whistleblower who has repeatedly spoken about phone hacking and other illegal practices, worked at the News of the World.

Hoare was sacked by the then NOTW editor Andy Coulson in 2005 because of his drug and drink addictions. McMullan has left the industry to run a pub and admits that he has a grudge against his former editor, Rebekah Brooks.

Hipwell also fell out with his former employer. He left the Mirror in disgrace in 2000 before being convicted five years later on market-rigging charges over “City Slickers”, a share-tipping column he wrote with a colleague.

Hipwell served 59 days in jail and was bitter to see his former editor Piers Morgan escape charges.

Morgan told investigators that it was a coincidence that he suddenly ploughed all the money he could get his hands on, Stg67,000, into shares of a relatively small firm on the day that City Slickers was about to tip it as a hot prospect, doubling its share price.

Hipwell has since written for The Guardian and The Observer. He has now moved his career to Lebanon, and writes largely about the issue of organ donation, having received a kidney transplant from his wife.

Hipwell's interview with The Australian Online is the first time he has discussed the phone hacking issue since giving an interview to The Guardian after a News of the World reporter and private investigator were first arrested five years ago.

The New York Times yesterday reported that five former journalists at the Mirror's stablemate The People had said that they regularly witnessed hacking in that newsroom in the late 1990s to early 2000, but they spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“I don't think anyone quite realised the criminality of it,” said one of the unnamed former reporters at The People.

Fresh claims: Victims of the 2005 London bombings have said they believe police may have leaked their details to a tabloid. Picture: Paco Serinelli Source: AFP

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The allegations deepen the scandal surrounding phone-hacking at the paper, which has shaken Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, claimed the jobs of two of Britain's top police officers and dragged in British Prime Minister David Cameron.

The Observer newspaper reported that survivors of the July 7, 2005 London bombings had asked lawyers to probe their belief that the capital's Metropolitan Police had sold or passed on a confidential contact list of victims.

Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors Foundation Coalition, said journalists from the paper approached survivors with false stories about how they got their details.

"Scotland Yard had the full list of survivor contact details. I am pretty sure that is how the News of the World got my home address," she told the Observer.

Four suicide bombers blew themselves up on three underground trains and a bus in the worst terror attacks on British soil, killing 52 people.

Separately the BBC reported that police had removed an officer from the inquiry into the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002 after information was allegedly leaked to the News of the World (NotW).

Police in Surrey, a county southwest of London, confirmed that a detective constable was accused by a colleague of inappropriately disclosing information about the case to a "retired police officer friend".

The officer "received words of advice and was removed permanently from the inquiry", the force said in a statement. It did not mention the NotW.

The tabloid has already been accused of hacking Milly Dowler's voicemails and those of families of 7/7 victims, but this is the first time police have directly been linked to the paper's activities on the two events.

Mr Murdoch has now closed the NotW and personally apologised to Dowler's parents.

Revelations that police employed a former NotW executive who has since been arrested over hacking claimed the jobs of Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and the force's anti-terror boss John Yates a week ago.

Scotland Yard was heavily criticised for botching an initial investigation, which resulted in the jailing of the paper's former royal editor and a private investigator in 2007 but concluded he was a "rogue reporter".

When the force bowed to pressure and reopened the probe in January it emerged that nearly 4000 people may have had their phones hacked.

Other British papers were dragged into the row this weekend when former journalists at the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror - Mr Murdoch's main British tabloid rivals - reportedly said phone-hacking was rife at their papers too.

But the main effects have been on the Mr Murdoch's US-based News Corporation, which also owns this publication.

In a further blow British Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday there were "big questions" over whether the mogul was fit to control a British broadcaster.

"We have learned from the past that having media moguls dominating the British media is deeply unhelpful, not simply in terms of plurality but because of the wider impact on the political world," he said.

News Corp. was forced by the scandal to scrap its bid for full control of pay-TV giant BSkyB earlier this month.

Mr Cable was stripped of responsibility for deciding the fate of the BSkyB deal last year after a newspaper secretly recorded him saying he was at "war" with Mr Murdoch.

Mr Murdoch's son James meanwhile faces calls for a police probe into evidence he gave to lawmakers last week saying he did not know hacking was more widespread.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Cameron has also come under pressure due to his decision to employ Andy Coulson, another former editor of the tabloid, as his media chief.

Mr Coulson then quit Downing Street in January and was arrested on July 8. Ten people have been detained since January.

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Tom Watson said he would formally ask police to investigate Mr Murdoch's evidence this week to the House of Commons media committee after the accusations from two senior executives of the closed News of the World.

Colin Myler, the last editor of the newspaper, and Tom Crone, its top lawyer, issued a statement yesterday saying Mr Murdoch was wrong when he told MPs he had not been told in 2008 about a crucial piece of evidence in the phone hacking scandal at the newspaper.

Mr Watson, a Blair and Brown government minister and a member of the media committee, alleged that Mr Murdoch may have been involved in perverting the course of justice, and failing to report a crime.

"Myler and Crone . . . are clearly concerned that they have effectively been hung out to dry by James Murdoch in the evidence session earlier in the week," he said. "If their statement is accurate it shows James Murdoch had knowledge that others were involved in hacking as early as 2008, it shows he failed to act to discipline staff or initiate an internal investigation, which undermines Rupert Murdoch's evidence to our committee that the company had a zero tolerance to wrongdoing.

"More importantly it shows he not only failed to report a crime to the police but because there was a confidentiality clause involved in the settlement it means that he bought the silence of (Professional Footballers Association chief executive) Gordon Taylor and that could mean he is facing investigation for perverting the course of justice."

Mr Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation's British operations and a potential successor to his father, Rupert, as overall chief executive, stood by the evidence he gave to the committee on Tuesday. News Corporation is the ultimate owner of The Weekend Australian.

The split among the former leaders of the NOTW is over the payment of a large secret settlement in a phone hacking case which Mr Watson and other MPs have suggested was an attempt to cover up the extent of the newspaper's voicemail hacking.

Another former News International employee -- the firm's most senior lawyer during the scandal, Jon Chapman -- issued a statement saying there had been "a number of serious inaccuracies" in statements to the committee on Tuesday, when the Murdochs and former chief executive Rebekah Brooks appeared.

MPs suggested this week that News International gave Mr Taylor a large payment with a gag clause to avoid the airing of an email, which would have destroyed the company's claim that hacking at the NOTW was the work of "one rogue reporter", as the company insisted until this year.

Mr Murdoch told the house media committee that when he authorised the payment in April 2008 Mr Crone and Mr Myler had not informed him that Mr Taylor's lawyers had obtained a copy of a highly incriminating email, which showed that the newspaper's chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, knew about phone hacking.

Entitled "for Neville", the email was written in 2005 by a junior reporter and contained transcripts of 35 hacked voice messages. "I was not aware of that at the time," Mr Murdoch told the committee.

The payment to Mr Taylor kept the incriminating email under wraps because it was conditional on a gag clause that banned Mr Taylor from revealing even the fact that there was a confidentiality agreement. Mr Crone, who lost his job when the NOTW was shut two weeks ago, told the Evening Standard last week that he would closely watch the Murdochs' evidence to the committee and warned he could speak out "if they completely screw me over".

Yesterday he and Mr Myler issued a joint statement "just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's select committee hearing".

"We would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

"In fact, we did inform him of the 'for Neville' email which had been produced to us by Gordon Taylor's lawyers."

In a statement issued by News International's parent firm, News Corporation, Mr Murdoch later said: "I stand by my testimony to the select committee."

The committee's chairman, John Whittingdale, said that he would like Mr Murdoch to respond "within a week" to the statement by Mr Myler and Mr Crone.

Matt Nixson, a journalist on the NOTW's sister newspaper, The Sun, was sacked and escorted from News International's premises yesterday over further phone hacking disclosures but the firm said it related to his activities when he worked at the NOTW, not at The Sun.

Amid growing speculation about whether the practice was confined to the NOTW, a former Fleet Street reporter, James Hipwell, has told The Weekend Australian he was likely to make himself available to the judicial inquiry and police to give evidence about phone hacking he says he saw while working at the Daily Mirror.

Mr Hipwell, a former stockmarket columnist, was jailed in 2005 over a stock-rigging scandal at the Mirror.

The FBI said it would contact the actor Jude Law over claims NOTW intercepted one of his voicemails while he was in New York, possibly an offence under US law.

The Wall Street Journal reported the US Justice Department was preparing subpoenas for preliminary investigations into News Corporation relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemails of 9/11 victims.

The issuance of subpoenas would represent an escalation of scrutiny of the New York-based media company. While it has sought to isolate the legal problems in Britain, it has been bracing for increased scrutiny in the US from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the company's strategy.

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Glenn Mulcaire, 40, was on an alleged 105,000 pounds annual contract to supply the now defunct paper with phone numbers used to hack the voicemails of celebrities, politicians, murder victims, including schoolgirl Milly Dowler, and people killed in the Middle East and terrorism attacks.

Despite being arrested and jailed for his role in phone hacking, Mr Mulcaire's legal fees were paid for by News of the World publisher News International.

But less than 24 hours after News International's James Murdoch dramatically revealed to British lawmakers at Tuesday's phone hacking hearing that Mr Mulcaire was being financially supported, the company announced they had stopped all legal payments to the convicted hacker.

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Hertfordshire police said an autopsy confirmed "no evidence of third party involvement and the death is non-suspicious".

Hoare, in his mid-40s, was the first journalist to declare his former friend and editor at the News of the World, Andy Coulson, knew about the now defunct tabloid's widespread use of phone hacking.

Police hope toxicology tests will solve the riddle of Hoare's death.

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British PM says with hindsight, would have not hired Coulson

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"People will of course make judgements about it. Of course I regret and I am extremely sorry about the furore it has caused," Cameron said in an emergency statement to parliament on the phone-hacking scandal.

"With 20-20 hindsight and all that has followed, I would not have offered him the job and I expect that he wouldn't have taken it.

"But you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. You live and you learn and believe you me, I have learned."

Cameron has come under intense pressure over his decision to hire Coulson, shortly after the journalist quit as editor of the News of the World in 2007 following the jailing of two people at the tabloid over phone hacking.

Coulson has always denied wrongdoing but he was arrested earlier this month on over the scandal, and on allegations of police bribery. He resigned as Downing Street communications chief in January.

The prime minister however refused to formally apologise for hiring Coulson.

He repeated his earlier assertion that if it turned out that Coulson had lied to him about his knowledge of hacking at the News of the World tabloid, and had lied to the police, it would be a matter for criminal charges.

"I have an old-fashioned view about innocent until proven guilty but if it turns out I have been lied to that would be a moment for a profound apology," he added.

UK PM David Cameron has defended his hiring of Andy Coulson (pictured), the former editor of News of the World.Source: AP

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In a raucous emergency session overnight in parliament, Cameron admitted, however, that both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour parties had failed to pursue key developments in the hacking case over the years.

"The greatest responsibility I have is to clear up this mess," Cameron told MPs, promising that a government inquiry would investigate whether other media organisations besides News of the World also committed illegal acts over the years.

Cameron cut short his Africa trip to appear before the House of Commons, which delayed its summer break to debate issues engulfing Britain's political and media elite and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owned the troubled News of the World.

Cameron's former communications chief Andy Coulson - a former editor at the tabloid - is among 10 people who have been arrested in the scandal. One person has been cleared by police.

MPs want to know why Mr Cameron insisted on hiring Mr Coulson despite warnings and how much the prime minister knew about the phone-hacking investigation.

Some have alleged that some of Mr Cameron's staff may have met with police in an attempt to pressure them to drop the investigation.

"To risk any perception that No 10 (Downing Street) was seeking to influence a sensitive police investigation in any way would have been completely wrong," he said.

Mr Cameron did, however, meet with News Corp executives more than two dozen times from May 2010 to this month - meetings that were criticised in parliament by Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who said Mr Cameron made a "catastrophic error of judgment" in hiring Mr Coulson.

Mr Cameron defended Mr Coulson's work in government and said if it emerged that Mr Coulson had lied to him about his role in the hacking case he would take it seriously.

"You don't make decisions in hindsight," Mr Cameron said.

Britain's Conservative Party said yesterday it had learned that another recently arrested phone-hacking suspect, former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis, may have advised Mr Coulson before the 2010 national election that put Mr Cameron into power. It said Wallis was not paid for the advice, however.

Mr Cameron also said the hacking affair raises questions over the ethics and values of London's police force. He told MPs yesterday that he would look at ways to bring in new leadership to Britain's police force and named six people who will assistant Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into the culture, practices, and ethics of the press.

The scandal has captivated audiences from America to  Australia, and there's more to come; only a fraction of about 3870 people whose names and telephone numbers were found in News of the World files have been contacted by police so far. It remains unknown how many of those names were targeted for hacking.

Yesterday, a judge awarded Notting Hill actor Hugh Grant - one of the most prominent celebrity critics of News Corp - the right to see whether he was one of them.

Meanwhile, a House of Commons committee yesterday blasted both News International, the News Corp unit which operates the British papers, and London Metropolitan Police for their performance on the scandal.

"We deplore the response of News International to the original investigation into hacking. It is almost impossible to escape the conclusion ... that they were deliberately trying to thwart a criminal investigation," said the home affairs committee, which has been grilling past and present Metropolitan Police officials about their decision not to reopen the hacking investigation in 2009.

However, the panel said it was astounded that police would blame the newspaper's tactics for their failure to mount a robust investigation.

"The difficulties were offered to us as justifying a failure to investigate further and we saw nothing that suggested there was a real will to tackle and overcome those obstacles," the committee said.

The committee said it was "appalled" by testimony on Tuesday from Dick Fedorcio, director of public affairs for the Metropolitan Police press office, about a short-term contract given to Wallis to advise the department on press and publicity. Fedorcio testified that he couldn't remember who recommended Wallis and "attempt(ed) to deflect all blame" to Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has resigned as head of the anti-terrorist command.

The revelation of the Wallis contract led to the resignation on Sunday of the police chief, Paul Stephenson.

Buckingham Palace reacted sharply to a claim by legislator Chris Bryant that the palace had raised concerns with Cameron's office over his decision to hire Mr Coulson.

"It is outrageous to suggest this," said a palace spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with royal practice.

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Last week it emerged that the files from Operation Motorman, an investigation into a private detective in 2003, had been passed to police.

The Sunday Times has obtained details of some of the alleged offences. They reveal how a civilian worker based at a south London police station was trawling criminal records for any information on celebrities.

In April 2005, private investigator Steve Whittamore and Paul Marshall, a communications worker at Tooting police station in London, admitted trading in confidential data.

According to the court files, Whittamore used Marshall to obtain information from the police national computer on several celebrities. In May 2002, he searched for information on Jessie Wallace, who stars in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The same day, Whittamore called Mirror newspapers at 10.56am.

Three days later, the Sunday Mirror reported that Wallace had once refused to take a breath test and had been involved in a minor offence as a teenager. The headline read: "TV Kat's guilty secrets: she hides criminal past from EastEnders bosses".

Whittamore and Marshall also conducted illegal criminal-record checks on Clifton Tomlinson, the actor Ricky Tomlinson's troubled son, who died in December 2004 from alcoholic liver disease, and Andrew Goody, the father of Jade Goody, the Big Brother contestant who has since died of cancer. Within days of the checks, articles on the individuals appeared in the Sunday Mirror.

The Whittamore files contain 4000 requests from 31 news outlets, including 952 from the Daily Mail, 266 from The Mail on Sunday, 103 from The Observer and four from The Sunday Times.

Many of the requests were legitimate, such as checks on company directorships and the electoral roll, but others could breach data-protection laws unless a public interest can be shown. The maximum penalty for each offence is pound stg. 5000 ($7500).

Trinity Mirror insists its journalists operate within the law and the Press Complaints Commission code, but last week it was facing more allegations.

In an interview with the BBC, a former Sunday Mirror reporter claimed Liz Hurley was among the targets. The source said: " I saw Liz Hurley's phone being hacked and a reporter listen to her mobile phone messages and take a note of what was said . . . I was told there wasn't much on there . . . so they would keep trying to see what they could find." James Hipwell, a former reporter at the Daily Mirror who was jailed for manipulating share prices, also said last week that phone hacking had been used at the paper by show-business reporters. He claimed they were ordered to "trawl the usual suspects", which meant going through voicemails.

Trinity Mirror has written to Britain's Culture, Media and Sport committee about incorrect claims by MP Louise Mensch that Piers Morgan, a former Mirror editor, had admitted phone hacking was used to reveal the affair between Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England football manager, and television presenter Ulrika Jonsson. Ms Mensch said any correction would be made in parliament.

THE SUNDAY TIMES

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More British papers dragged into hacking row

British scandal sheet wracked by scandal of its own

Hacking scandal exposes secrets at Murdoch's tabloid

""I think the question is, 'Is it too late to fix?' At one point, they could have come forward and said 'this is terrible,' they could have explained it was part of a culture that got out of control, they could have fired everybody, even closed the newspaper.

News International whistleblower's death 'non-suspicious,' police say

Editor's Note: Compare this report by Eric Walberg with the Reuter's report republished earlier today on Axis of Logic:

REUTERS - President Karzai's younger brother killed in Kandahar

- Axis of Logic