Leveson inquiry: Charlotte Church, Anne Diamond, Chris Jefferies - live
Full coverage as the singer, TV presenter and Joanna Yeates's landlord give evidence on phone hacking and media standards
10.41am: Another article was headlined "Murder police quiz nutty professor".
A Sun article titled "The strange Mr Jefferies" referred to him as "WEIRD 'Strange talk, strange walk'; POSH 'Loved culture, poetry'; LEWD 'Made sexual remarks'; CREEPY 'Loner with blue rinse hair'". It also branded him a "creepy oddball".
10.40am: There were more than 40 articles cited in Jefferies' evidence.
Three of the articles were held in contempt of court including the Sun, which reported "Jo suspect scared kids - obsessed by death", and an article in the Daily Mirror asking "Was killer waiting in Jo's flat?".
10.34am: The inquiry hears how the press protrayed Jefferies as some sort of sexual deviant.
It was certainly suggested that there may well have been some sort of sexual motive for the murder of Joanna Yeates and ... it was suggested in some of the articles that I was gay.
So that created a bit of a problem as far as that line goes. There was another suggestion that I was a bisexual. The press were trying to have it every possible way.
The impact of these photographs was that I was instantly recognisable. It would be fair to say that I had a distinctive appearance and it was a result of the entire world knowing what I looked like. It was suggested to me that I ought to change my appearance so I wouldn't be recognised and harassed by the media.
10.34am: Sources often had very spurious links to him.
One of them just happened to live in a flat that he had owned.
Somebody who was not on the staff of the establishment where I was teaching had at one time lived in one of the flats in the building where I live. He had sold that flat to somebody else, who sold it to another person, it was that person who I eventually bought the flat. The! re was a very considerable gap [between buying the flat from the person].
10.32am: Jefferies says reporters were so good at hunting him down, they were like private detectives.
The efforts which some members of the press went to to contact some of these people was extraordinary and worthy of private detectives, I would have thought.
A number of those who were contacted by the press refused to make any statements. Very many of the comments contained in the articles published are not attributed only a handful are attributed. I haven't been in contact with any of those whose names have been attached to supposed quotations.
10.29am: Jefferies says he felt he was under "house arrest" after his release from custody, besieged by press.
I was very strongly advised not to go out. If it had have been apparent where I was staying those friends would have been beseiged by reporters and photographers.
In effect for a period after I was released I was effectively under house arrest and went from friends to friends, rather as if I was a recusant priest at the time of the Reformation going from safe house to safe house.
10.28am: During the time Jefferies was in custody he was not aware of the reporting by the press.
When he was released, his solicitor outlined in "general terms" what the press coverage had been.
They suggested that it might be good for his "psychological health" that he didn't read the coverage.
10.28am: At this point the press were also talking to his neighbours, but at that point they had not got in contact with any former pupils or relatives.
10.27am: Jefferies is asked whether there was any interest by the press before the arrest.
Jefferies says the press were interested in the second statement he had given to the police.
They had a "garbled version" of this statement, Jefferies says.
10.26am! : The inquiry is now setting the scene for Jefferies testimony. It was 17 December last year when Joanne Yeates disappeared. Jefferies was arrested at 7am on 30 December and released on police bail on 1 January 2011.
10.24am: Jefferies, who is well spoken and composed, is now running through his career. He is now retired, and owns three flats in Bristol.
10.22am: Jefferies, a former schoolteacher, won a case against two papers for contempt in their coverage; the Sun was fined 18,000, and the Daily Mirror 50,000.
10.19am: It must be singularly unpleasant to relive the events that you lived through, Leveson tells Jefferies.
10.18am: Chris Jefferies is now taking the stand.
10.17am: Dan Sabbagh, our head of media, tweets:
Brilliant. Paul Staines who is opposed press regulation, is now summoned to Leveson. Statutory regulation right there.
10.14am: Here are profiles of today's witnesses:
Christopher Jefferies
This time last year Christopher Jefferies was an anonymous former English teacher from Bristol. His life was turned upside down over a manic fortnight of tabloid intrusion in December, after he was arrested and later released without charge over the murder of the architect Joanna Yeates. His public "character assassination", as Jefferies' solicitor later described it, led to Britain's tabloid press appearing in the dock over charges of libel and contempt of court. Eight titles the Sun, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Scotsman and Daily Express agreed to pay Jefferies substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures, in July. The Sun and Daily Mirror were separately fined 18,000 and 50,000 respectively for contempt of court.
Hurst is a former British army intelligence officer who worked in Northern Ireland. His computer was allegedly hacked by the News of the World, which was supposedly searching for details of an IRA informer. Hurst claims that a private investigator confirmed to him that he placed a Trojan virus on his hard drive to obtain emails over a three-month period for the News of the World. This is now the subject of a Scotland Yard investigation. The BBC's Panorama filmed Hurst being shown copies of information allegedly obtained from his computer. The programme claimed the investigator was commissioned by Alex Marunchak, a former News of the World journalist who was a senior figure at the paper. Hurst is suing the owner of the defunct paper, Rupert Murdoch's News International, in the high court.
Jane Winter
A peace campaigner and charity worker in Northern Ireland who runs British Irish Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation which monitors human rights abuses on both sides of the political and religious divide.
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church will tell the Leveson inquiry how the News of the World in 2005 printed lurid details of her father's alleged extramarital affair allegedly gleaned from voicemail messages left on the singer's phone. Through intercepted voicemail messages, the paper is alleged to have learned that Church's mother was admitted to hospital shortly before the story was published after attempting to commit suicide. Barrister David Sherborne told the Leveson inquiry that the News of the World then approached Church's mother and persuaded her to an exclusive interview about the affair, in return for not publishing further "lurid" details gleaned from alleged voicemail intercepts. "When people talk of public interest in exposing the private lives of well-known people or those close to them this, is the real, brutally real impact, which this kind of journalism has," Sherborne said.
Anne Diamond
F ormer breakfast TV presenter Anne Diamond insists her battle with News International began over two decades ago, when she asked Rupert Murdoch at a party how it felt to own newspapers that ruin people's lives. "You can't do that to a newspaper mogul," David Sherborne told the Leveson inquiry. Diamond is expected to tell the inquiry how she felt when the Sun published a front page picture of her holding her son's coffin at his funeral in 1991. On a separate occasion, the Sun was accused of paying the Diamond family's nanny to reveal intimate details about her alleged relationship with Diamond's husband.
10.13am: Leveson shows his displeasure with Guido Fawkes. "It wasn't how I was envisaging spending Sunday evening either," he says referring to the leak last night on Fawkes blog.
The judge say he is concerned to "deprive" Guido Fawkes of that "oxygen" of publicity.
He says he will be summoning Paul Staines to explain how he got the testimony.
I intend to issue notice under section 21 of the Inquiries Act requiring him to disclose how he came about the evidence ... and requiring him to give evidence.
10.10am: Caplan says:
The fact is that although the leak itself has been widely published the contents of Mr Campbell's statement it appears have not been widely disseminated. The content of Mr Campbell's statement make a number of points against a number of organisations and individuals.
10.10am: Jonathan Caplan, counsel for Associated Newspapers, does not want Campbell's statement to be published today.
Leveson says his view last night was that it should be published today two days in advance this is affording people 72 hours' notice in advance.
10.09am: Leveson says he does not want to give Guido Fawkes "the oxygen of additional publicity" and is minded to have the Campbell testimony published.
10.07am: Leveson says he is "concerned ! for the future" and has warned anyone who leaks testimony that they can be referred to the high court for "appropriate action".
He has reminded those at the hearing that section 19 of the Inquiries Act restricts the publication or disclosure whether in whole or in part outside the confidentiality circle which comprises Leveson, his assessors, the core inquiry team, the core participants any statement prior to the making of the statement orally.
10.04am: The blogger got hold of Campbell's draft statement and published it three days before he was due to appear. Normally the statement is not made available until the witness is sworn in.
I am obviously concerned about the security of the information that is available and to maintain the integrity of the inquiry as we move forward.
As a result I am intending to inquire ... into the circumstances in which this statement came to be made available for publication.
10.03am: The inquiry has now opened and Lord Justice Leveson is talking about Guido Fawkes' leak of Alastair Campbell's witness statement.
9.54am: Roy Greenslade today writes how many veteran journalists were appalled by the evidence given at the Leveson inquiry last week:
Evidence given to the Leveson inquiry last week appalled many veteran journalists. Among them was John Dale a former national newspaper reporter and magazine editor who wrote on the gentlemenranters site of "journalistic corruption and debasement" that "shamed Fleet Street."
Another hardened old hand, Jim Cassidy, was disgusted too. As the editor of two red-tops the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail and, briefly, theSunday Mirror he knows the business from the inside.
I am pleased to act as host to his passionate response to the revelations of the first week's hearings...
Do journalists ! cry? Do editors cry? Do photographers cry? They should. They do. They must. I advise any of the journalists due to attend court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice over the next week to stop and take some time out at prayer room E131.
There, they can find time to reflect, pray and perhaps shed a few tears for the hurt, anguish and pain they have caused...
9.48am: At the Leveson inquiry today is Dan Sabbagh - you can follow him on @dansabbagh.
On the live blog today are Lisa O'Carroll and Josh Halliday you can follow them on Twitter at @lisaocarroll and @JoshHalliday.
James Robinson @jamesro47 is also in court to cover an application by Steve Coogan and former Max Clifford PR Nicola Phillips to force former private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to reveal who ordered him to hack into phones. The hearing begins at 10.30am.
We will bring you the latest as soon as it breaks.
9.43am: Lord Justice Leveson yesterday summoned Guido Fawkes blogger Paul Staines to give evidence to the inquiry after his website published evidence from Alastair Campbell three days before it was due to be publicly heard.
Evidence has not previously been made available to the public or the press until the witness is sworn in, but the leak was apparently of a draft Campbell testimony.
9.26am: Good morning and welcome to day eight at the Leveson inquiry.
The paparazzi will be centre stage again today, with singer Charlotte Church describing how she has been tailed by photographers throughout her life but particularly when she started dating rugby player Gavin Henson.
Former army intelligence officer Ian Hurst will testify on his experience on northern Ireland where he alleges he was spied on by press interested in his job as a "handler" for IRA informers.
Newspaper stories about alleged spy Freddie Scappaticci and murdered solicitor P! at Finuc ane are expected to be raised.
Hurst believes someone acting for a newspaper infected his computer with a Trojan virus to try and establish Scappaticci's whereabouts and to source information about Martin McGuinness.
Also taking the stand today is former breakfast TV presenter Anne Diamond; Chris Jefferies, the Bristol landlord wrongly linked to the murder of Joanne Yeates; and Jane Winter, a peace campaigner who has worked in northern Ireland.
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