LONDON - A private detective jailed forillegally intercepting voicemail messages on behalf of ajournalist at one of Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids on Fridaygave lawyers the names of the people he says ordered him tocarry out the phone hacking.
Glen Mulcaire's lawyer, Sarah Webb, said no details would bereleased before legal moves by her next week to prevent theirpublication while a police probe continues into allegations ofphone hacking by the now closed News of the World newspaper.
Disclosure of the names would add pressure on NewsInternational, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's News Corp and shed further light on how widespread phone hackingwas at the tabloid.
Mulcaire, jailed in 2007 along with paper's royal reporterClive Goodman, had been ordered to hand over the details by acourt judge.