Former full-time phone-hacker for the News of the World Glenn Mulcaire has repeated his assertion that be believed he was working indirectly for the police when he listened to the phone messages of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

And he has revealed that a third journalist from the NoW was involved in commissioning him to do so in addition to former news editor Greg Miskiw and former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, who are both currently in prison for conspiracy to hack phones.

The new revelations are made in book by deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday James Hanning which is being serialised by The Independent and Independent on Sunday and is based on extensive interviews with Mulcaire.