Leveson inquiry: Stuart Hoare, Matt Driscoll - live
Full coverage as the brother of phone-hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare and former News of the World sports reporter give evidence
10.56am: Hanning is asked if Sean had he had an axe to grind
It definitely occurred to me, but I wouldn't say it was a prime spur.He told me he was offered 60,000 to tell his story some eyars ago but he turned it down.
10.53am: When Hanning met Hoare in the summer of 2010, he believed he was no longer taking drugs and although he couldn't be certain whether he wasn't drinking, it might have been "a half a lager" but not much more.
There was certainly no evidence that he had been in the state that he had been in the past. He seemed to be operating pretty efficiently and impressively.
I had no feeling that his memory was impaired at all.
10.51am: Hanning explains that he got interested in the subject of phone hacking several years ago.
He first met Sean in the summer of 2010 and met him after that "four or five times".
The meetings were quite long - he would come in to London from his home in Watford and they built up a "trust and rapport".
10.48am: Hanning spoke to Sean about the activities at the News of the World and the Sun.
He also spoke to a number of other people who had been employees of the NoW, but Sean was the one he spoke to most.
10.47am: Hanning, who is deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday is being questioned by David Barr.
10.46am: James Hanning, a journalist Sean Hoare "trusted" is now giving evidence.
10.40am: Stuart says Sean's "seniors" knew what they were doing was wrong.
I've found it very very different today not to name names but the seniors that were involved in the practices that went on know they were involved and know they were in the wrong
Sitting here today I've tr! ied to p ut some of the wrongs right on his behalf and his ex colleagues who have suffered pain and imprisonment.
10.36am: Stuart is being asked by Leveson why he felt drink and drugs was part of the job?
I think Sean in his way thought that within the entertainment world, to allow Sean to do some of the jobs, to gain the friendship of certain individuals, Sean felt that he had to be like them. I hate it, I don't understand it, but that's what he did.
He came close to a lot of celebrities and got a lot of information that benefitted him and his employer.
10.35am: Stuart is asked would he have exaggerated to the New York Times?
I don't think looking at Sean's life and what he was going through... no I don't think he would exaggerate. He lost a lot of friends through what he did.
He says he was probably away from drink and drugs for about "seven or eight months" when he talked to the New York Times.
10.32am: He said Sean wanted to make what went on publicly and was contacted by Joe Becker at the New York Times who took him seriously.
Sean didn't contact papers. Sean actually tried to put his concerns into the public domain but no-one really wanted to listen. Everyone perception of sean was he was drinking drug taking old journalist.
He says he got no money for his interview.
Sean received no money for what he did. We talked about that many many times. He received no money as far as articles or for the New York Times
10.30am: Stuart says Sean got away from the world of journalism and stopped drinking.
In 2010, we had got him out of journalism, we had got him working with horse, he had stopped drinking, he was clean. the old Sean that we knew and loved [was back]...
Being away from journalism he had the ability to step back and to understand the difference! between what is right and what is wrong.
10.28am: Stuart says he was "disgusted" with the hacking and pinging. He said the pressure was enormous.
Until this day I am still disgusted with what goes on.
To see the demise of my brother through this [pressure] was shocking.
10.26am: Stuart says Sean did discuss pinging with him.
I remember walking around the field with him, we were out with the dogs and I asked him he is that it, are you done with what you have to tell and he said.
No, I need to mention this practice and he spoke to me about it at length. What shocked me about this, again there was a defined structure in place, the reporters went through someone.
He confirms that Sean told him about this practice while he was still working at the NoW, before he was fired in 2005
10.24am: Stuart is now talking about "pinging", something Sean Hoare spoke to the New York Times about.
It is a technical procedure enabling a journalist to identify the precise location of a target of a story via mobile phone.
10.23am: Stuart on phone hacking.
Sean didn't realise at the time that he was probably doing wrong. He got carried away like a lot of journalists and was certainly under a lot of pressure from seniors to deliver.I think he thought he was producing, he was getting the stories, hew as getting his name on the front page.
10.22am:
To listen to Sean's stories about what went on... It didn't seem like work. It was as if no one was in control ...
It was a very strange world that they operated in.
10.19am: Stuart tells the inquiry that the phone hacking was widespread.
The idea that it was a secret had him rocking in his chair. Everyone was at it.
He is asked about hacking first on the Sun ! and then the NoW
I think the answer is the same for both. Hacking was used widely.
10.16am: Stuart is now talking about phone hacking. He has been instructed not to name any names.
He is being asked by counsel Carine Patry Hoskins about emails he received from Sean about phone hacking.
They are emails Sean sent after he had finished working at the NoW and the SunThis alleged practice not only went on at NoW but at the Sun. I want to make it very clear that this was a practice that was taken to the NoW
.
Leveson intervenes - "this is what Sean told you?"
It was routine at the SunIt was probably more daily at the NoW.
These were practices that he witnessed.
10.14am: Stuart tells the inquiry he got a job in an equestrian centre after short stints working for Channel 5 and others.
He got so fed up with journalism, that he actually worked away from journalist and worked with horses and he got away from it all. The family were really pleased he got away from it all ... he really enjoyed it.
10.13am: Sean Hoare, who was found dead in July, was asked to leave the paper, his brother says.
He felt his world had fallen apart...
He just sat in the chair and he really felt lost. I can't tell you how much Seanie enjoyed journalism he really did.
10.12am: Stuart Hoare on now.
He wasn't enjoying it the last year, he was bringing his work home, he was drinking more, he was trying to run away from certain issues that were going on at the paper, it wasn't a nice part of his life and he was certainly struggling.
10.01am: Stuart Hoare is expected to be up first.
The inquiry has said "for reasons with which he is satisfied, Lord Justice Leveson has agreed there will only be audio of Mr Hoar! e's evid ence available, no video".
This audio-only opportunity has been extended twice before - to Mazher Mahmood, the former News of the World undercover journalist, and to documentary maker Chris Atkins.
9.57am: Here's the witness list for the rest of the week.
The inquiry team have added a new name since Friday - Nick Fagge, a journalist who, it appears, has written for the Daily Express and the Mail Online.
9.45am: Good morning and welcome to the Leveson live blog.
Giving evidence today is Stuart Hoare, the brother of whistle-blower Sean Hoare, the former News of the World journalist who claimed that the former editor Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking.
Hoare is expected to be asked what his brother, who was found dead at his home in July, had told him about the culture and work practices at the Sunday tabloid.
Also on today is the deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday, James Hanning. Hoare's brother, we understand, had said that Sean "trusted" James and this is the reason he has been called.
Matt Driscoll, a former sports reporter on the News of the World, is the third witness today.
He won almost 800,000 at an employment tribunal in 2009 for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination.
The tribunal found in December 2008 that Driscoll had fallen victim to "a consistent pattern of bullying behaviour".
The inquiry is sitting for just three days this week - other witnesses this week include Piers Morgan.
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