I TURNED PHONE HACKING FROM A BACKSTREET BUSINESS INTO INDUSTRIAL SCALE ORGANISED CRIME FOR THE BRITISH TABLOIDS
I was the penniless son of Ukrainian immigrants.
But I rose to be one of the most powerful news executives in Rupert Murdoch’s empire.
My dad was in Hitler’s SS. My mum was a Nazi slave – I was born ready for the Fleet Street cauldron.
At the News of the World, I broke the biggest exclusives.
But then I discovered a secret weapon that would revolutionise news gathering: the use of Illegal Private Investigators to hack and blag.
I turned the ‘dark arts’ from a backstreet business into industrial-scale organised crime.
However, one day the paper intercepted the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
The phone hacking scandal erupted and I went to prison – sacrificed to save the boss’s multi-billion pound business.
But once out of Britain’s toughest jail, I swore to tell the world what really happened behind the scenes.
I delivered the biggest story of my career – a tell-all witness statement to the High Court.
Under oath, I blew the lid on hacking at other papers such as The Sun, forcing Murdoch to shell out a billion pounds more, after celebrities such as Heather Mills and Sienna Miller mounted huge claims.
Read all about my amazing story here. Exclusive – only in Yellow Press.
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