Ex-Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes makes phone-hacking claim against Daily Mail owner

Simon Hughes has already received two financial settlements from News UK over alleged phone hacking. Photograph: Sam Tobin/PA

The Daily Mail’s parent company is facing its first legal claim for phone hacking, after the former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Simon Hughes filed a case against the newspaper publisher.

Hughes is alleging that Associated Newspapers – the owner of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline – misused his private information. He is expected to claim that the newspaper publisher employed a private investigator who improperly accessed his voicemail messages.