Former News of the World reporter Paul McMullan has said phone hacking was a "school yard trick" and declared that "privacy is for paedos" in an explosive testimony before the Leveson inquiry.
"In 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never actually come across anyone who's been doing any good," he told the hearing in London on Tuesday. "Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in. Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it."