London, August 6 (ANI): The phone hacking scandal in Britain, which had earlier forced the shutdown of the News of the World tabloid, has deepened with the Guardian's Assistant Editor David Leigh, admitting to deriving 'thrills' from hacking into telephone messages.
Leigh said he hacked into private voicemails to expose "bribery and corruption," not for "witless tittle-tattle."
Leigh admitted to phone hacking in an article of the media section of newspaper in 2006 after News of the World (NotW) royal editor Clive Goodman pleaded guilty to phone hacking.
"I've used some of those questionable methods myself over the years. I, too, once listened to the mobile phone messages of a corrupt arms company executive - the crime similar to that for which Goodman now faces the prospect of jail", the Herald Sun quoted Leigh, as saying.
According to Leigh, phone- hacking was simple as the phone owner, who was a businessman, had left a print-out of his voice-mail code.
"There is certainly a voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person's private messages. But unlike Goodman, I was not interested in witless tittle-tattle about the royal family", Leigh added.
He also admitted to be involved in blagging - pretending to be someone else on the phone - to get his stories.
Leigh's article came to light in the wake of several alleged victims of phone hacking likely to file lawsuits soon against a second newspaper group, Trinity Mirror.
The victims' lawyer, Mark Lewis, said the claims would be filed in a few weeks but did not disclose his clients' identities. (ANI)
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