Another witness has come forward to claim that during his editorship of the News of the World, the Downing Street communications chief, Andy Coulson, knew about illegal phone-hacking by his staff.
An unidentified former executive will say on Channel 4's Dispatches programme tonight that Coulson often asked to hear what his reporters had discovered when intercepting voicemail messages.
According to today's Guardian report, the journalist's key allegation is this...
"Sometimes, they would say,'We've got a recording', and Andy would say, 'OK, bring it into my office and play it to me', or 'Bring me, email me a transcript of it.'"
The programme, which looks at the links between News International and the coalition government, is presented by Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne, who joined the paper a couple of weeks ago after leaving the Daily Mail.
In a Mail article in July, Amoral spiv or true traditional Tory? Will the REAL Cameron please stand up, Oborne questioned Coulson's "sense of probity."
Allegations in the Oborne programme are likely to surface in tomorrow evening's City University debate, How far should a reporter go? The lessons of the News of the World phone-hacking story. See details here.
Sources: The Guardian/Daily Mail
