Former News of the World (NoW) legal manager Tom Crone and the tabloid’s former editor Colin Myler have called into question evidence given by News International chairman James Murdoch during Tuesday’s (19 July) parliamentary committee hearing.

The pair issued a statement last night alleging that James Murdoch had been informed about emails indicating that phone-hacking at the newspaper spread further than royal editor Clive Goodman – despite his parliamentary evidence to the contrary.