Actor, comedian, victim of phone hacking by the News of the World and a leading figure in legal actions against the newspaper. He told the Leveson Inquiry that "lurid" details of his private life appeared in the News of the World after he was set up by that paper's former editor. Coogan gave extensive evidence of intrusive stalking and photographing by the Daily Mirror and Sunday Times. He said he had witnessed journalists rummaging through his rubbish bins. He had also been the victim of several kiss-and-tell stories and detailed how the women in question had been fooled and sometimes bribed into giving stories. At the heart of the problem, he thought, was the lack of accountability on the part of the editors and owners.
A former reporter at The People, Jellema was asked to give her side of events in regard to an entrapment set up by Christopher Atkins, as part of a documentary which aimed to demonstrate that newspapers would buy personal stories including medical information. Jellema said that she had had no authority to agree a financial package and would have relied on the judgment of the paper's news desk and in-house legal team.
