Ex-Mail on Sunday editor denies misleading inquiry over private investigator

Seven claimants are accusing Associated Newspapers Ltd, which publishes the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, of writing stories based on unlawful information gathering. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Shutterstock

The former editor of the Mail on Sunday has denied claims he misled the Leveson inquiry into press standards over the newspaper’s involvement with corrupt private investigators.

Appearing at the high court, Peter Wright, who edited the Sunday newspaper from 1998 to 2012, said some of the allegations aimed at the title – which include landline tapping and bugging – were “just incredible”.