private investigator

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Former Daily Mail investigative reporter Stephen Wright has bitterly criticised claims he paid private investigators for information about the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.

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In August 2011, Hartley led an internal investigation looking at records of payments to private investigators ahead of the Leveson Inquiry that year.

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In court on Wednesday he accepted there may be evidence private investigators working on behalf of the paper may have used unlawful techniques.

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There, he answered questions about the paper's use of private investigators to obtain information.

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ANL has countered that evidence will prove it sourced its stories legitimately and that claims around the use of private investigators were "clutching at straws in the wind".

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