Actor Jude Law tried to manipulate a News of the World story about his girlfriend Sienna Miller's affair with Bond star Daniel Craig to make it appear that ''she cheated first'', it was claimed today.
A PR source asked the paper to ''deliberately backdate'', claiming the request was effectively from Law, who had had a fling with a nanny, the hacking trial heard.
The disclosure came as former editor Andy Coulson's lawyer Timothy Langdale QC cross examined self confessed NotW hacker Dan Evans on the fifth day of his evidence.
Evans claims his former editor knew about his hacking activities and that part of the Sienna story was produced from a hacked message to Craig from Law confronting him about the affair.
Transcripts from interviews read to the court exposed information from the sources described as One and Two.
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29 Jan 2014Source One, a driver, told the NotW that he first saw Miller with Craig at the London restaurant The Ivy, and Miller was ''panicking'' the press would make something out of it.
The second time, Source One says they were at a flat in Notting Hill. Craig left and drove off while Miller hid behind the door, the Old Bailey was told. The source felt obliged to tell Law about it, Mr Langdale said.
Source Two, who worked in public relations, told the NotW that Miller was just ''keeping Jude dangling'' while ''going on to her next victim''.
The source claimed that Miller was ''clingy'' and a bit of a ''stalker'' so would call both Law and Craig several times an hour.
The source said: ''They
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