Christopher Jeffries was wrongly accused for the murder of Joanna Yeates in 2010. He gave his statement yesterday in the Leveson Inquiry which is being heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. He told how the media vilified him and determined that he was guilty of the murder which he did in fact not commit.
Mr Jeffries went on to say that because the media had decided he was guilty, they went on to try and blacken his character and reputation. Last month, Vincent Tabak, a Dutch engineer was found guilty of the murder of Joanna Yeates.
Also giving evidence was Ian Hurst an ex-Army intelligence officer who told the Leveson Inquiry how his emails had been illegally hacked by a News of the World private investigator. His computer had been hacked in 2007 but this was not revealed to him until 2011.
Paul Staines, a political blogger has been summoned by Lord Justice Leveson to give evidence before the inquiry. Mr Staines has been accused of publishing confidential information online including papers Alastair Campbell submitted to lawyers.
The Leveson Inquiry was set up in July by Prime Minister David Cameron after it came to light that the News of the World had hacked into murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile phone.
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