The News of the the World's former head of news Ian Edmonson contradicts evidence given by his former editor Colin Myler at the Leveson Inquiry. 

 Ian Edmondson told the Leveson Inquiry that former editor Colin Myler told him to deliberately mislead the McCanns' spokesman about the newspaper's plans to publish Kate McCann's diary.

Mrs McCann has told the inquiry she felt "violated" and like "climbing into a hole and not coming out" when the intensely private journal appeared in the now-defunct paper on September 14 2008.

Mr Myler has said he would never have published the diary - which was obtained from a female Portuguese journalist - if he had realised she was not aware of what the paper was planning to do.

He said Mr Edmondson told him he had cleared the story with the family's spokesman, Clarence Mitchell