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Others who have settled claims against the publisher this week include the former soccer star Paul Gascoigne, the actor Sean Bean and Sharleen Spiteri, lead singer of the band Texas. Skip to content. Sienna Miller. Download our local news and weather app for iOS or Android — and choose the alerts you want. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, was said to have been found at his Watford home.

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but said in a statement: "At Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing. There was an unexplained delay in the arrival of forensics officers at the scene. Neighbours said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property shortly before 11am.

They left around four hours later, around 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises. There was no police presence at the scene at all for several hours. The curtains were drawn at the first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats. At about 9. Two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building.

Three officers carrying cameras and wearing white forensic suits went into the flat at around 9. Hoare was in his mids. He first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World.

He told the newspaper that not only did Coulson know of the hacking, but he also actively encouraged his staff to intercept the calls of celebrities in the pursuit of exclusives.

In a subsequent interview with the BBC he alleged he was personally asked by his editor at the time, Coulson, to tap into phones. In an interview with the PM programme he said Coulson's insistence he did not know of the practice was "a lie, it is simply a lie".