Journalist hacked Paul McCartney voice mail,ex testifies

Mills said the voicemails did not show up as new,but rather saved,when she checked them. She later received a phone call from a journalist of Trinity Mirror,the parent company of Daily Mirror. The journalist had heard the messages,CNN reported.

The name of the journalist was redacted from Mills8217;s witness statement and testimony.

Piers Morgan,who was the editor of the Daily Mirror and News of the World at the time,told the inquiry last year that he had heard the voicemail on a tape,but would not say how or where.

He has denied any involvement in phone hacking.

In 2006,Morgan said that he had heard 8216;a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone.8217;

8220;It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff,Heather had fled to India,and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely,miserable and desperate,and even sang 8216;We Can Work It Out8217; into the answerphone,8221; Morgan had said.

When asked,Mills said she never authorized Morgan or any other journalists to listen to her voicemail.

Mills,a former glamour model,divorced McCartney in 2008 after six years of marriage. The 69-year-old singer married Nancy Shevell in October last year.

A number of celebrities including Hugh Grant have testified at the Leveson Inquiry,established last year in the wake of the News Corp phone-hacking scandal.