A convicted phone hacker helping 's legal case against the Mirror's publisher offered 'pretty large sums of money' to potential witnesses, the High Court heard yesterday.Andrew Green KC, representing Mirror Group Newspapers – which is being sued by the duke and the three other claimants – told the judge the practice was 'extraordinary'.Mr Green said Graham Johnson, a 'self-confessed professional liar' who was sacked from the News of the World for fabricating stories, had been involved in an 'extremely close collaboration' with the claimants' legal team, along with another convicted phone hacker, Dan Evans. Both were key witnesses in the case.
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