Paul McMullan, who worked for the News of The World, also told the Leveson inquiry his former bosses are the "scum of journalism".
The officers that carried out the raid when the reggae singer died will not face any charges
Bastien was supposedly punished for flushing his classmate's drawings in the toilet at a playgroup.
Police have arrested a 34-year-old woman from London after her racist rant on a tram against fellow travellers was captured on film and uploaded on YouTube.
The singer Charlotte Church told the Leveson Inquiry that constant press intrusion has had a "massive psychological effect" on her life.
A German pensioner charged with raping his daughter nearly 500 and fathering three children during a 34-year period insists the sex was consensual.
A policeman nicknamed "Robocop" because of his prolific arrest rate is in hospital after being critically injured while on his bicycle.
Christopher Jefferies was initially a police suspect in the Joanna Yeates murder case - and faced an onslaught from the press.
The Pakistani woman arrested for killing and cooking her husband had planned to make a korma curry from parts of his arm and leg.
Wikileaks has postponed the launch of its new online submissions system and has announced that the new website will unveiled on December 1.
How long can a woman's loyalty to her husband last after his death? Seventeen years? No; till death, as this story suggests.
Online criminals and cyber bullies are to be banned from using the internet.
Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter is free again to travel after his three-year ban came to an end, with no plans currently to renew it.
The unwitting father claims he was unaware his girlfriend was undergoing IVF treatment when his sperm was used to get her pregnant
Police in Pakistan have arrested a woman who killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts in the southern city of Karachi.
JK Rowling described her desperate attempts at keeping her family life private and protecting her children from the press, at the London inquiry into press ethics and phone hacking.
London Underground bosses have, once again, been accused of disrespect after the body of a second train death victim was stored in a cleaners' cupboard.
Max Mosley, Ex-Formula One boss, told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics about the News of the World's damaging Nazi lies.
The Metropolitan Police under fire after a man carrying a toy gun in his briefcase was tasered nine times.
Two drunken men face life in jail after stripping a disabled man, stealing his false leg, and kicking and stamping him to death.
Phone hacking and a "web of surveillance" by tabloids made her "paranoid", she told the inquiry.
A troubled teenager was driven to suicide after a doctor's letter accidentally sent to her mother revealed her cannabis and alcohol use.
How will the Protection of State Information Bill impact on the economy, media, and people of South Africa?
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann "were being tried by the media" and faced a barrage of innuendo suggesting they were involved in murdering their missing child, they told the Leveson Inquiry.
The ex-wife of former England footballer Paul Gascoigne's said she fears the press will take revenge for her Leveson Inquiry appearance.
Two women in their 50s were caught on CCTV stealing £400 worth of alcohol from Asda in Oldham before realising their getaway vehicle was out of petrol.
Phone-hacking spread further than the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
The Liverpool based Whitney family made hundreds of thousands of pounds supplying addicts with heroin and cocaine around the clock
Australian police are investigating a former senator's allegations that an executive from Rupert Murdoch's News Limited offered him favourable newspaper coverage and a "special relationship" in return for voting against government legislation.
Judge William Adams, the man who was secretly filmed repeatedly beating his disabled daughter with a belt, has been suspended as an Aransas County, Texas, judge on full pay.