Where is he ?

The latest former News of the World executive to come under scrutiny in the current round of stars complaining about phone hacking is Greg Miskiw.  He left News International in 2005, from his base in Manchester, and his name was on a News of the World contract with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Now it's being suggested he's the "Greg" marked by Mulcaire in corner of various other documents about investigations.  

Greg seems to have risen through reporting and subbing at the News of the World.  He found a way into Warsaw in 1982, at the start of Solidarity, by covering the Poland v England Under 21 game in March that year.  Later as a sub in 1993, he was part of a group that spoofed Chief Sub Lou Yaffa (moonlighting from the Daily Mirror in Manchester) with a whole series of fake wire stories about his beloved Newcastle United FC, at the end of a shift.  It was convincing enough for Lou to think about changing the whole edition.

Miskiw takes credit for co-ordinating the paper's coverage of the sting by "fake Sheikh" Mazher Mahmood on Sophie Rhys-Jones, Countess of Wessex, in 2001. In the same year, Greg had to pick up the pieces with a young hack who left under stress after being made to dress up as Harry Potter by Rebekkah Wade and Andy Coulson.   The transcript of their conversation provided a Miskiw quote which is everywhere on the web "That is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives".

In 2003, he was criticised in an employment tribunal for "cavalier and irresponsible behaviour" to crime correspondent Peter Rose. 


Greg joined the Liverpool-based Mercury Press Agency in 2005 as news editor, but there's no sign of his name in that role on the website now.  Greg wrote a piece about a Ukrainian "plague", worse apparently than swine flu, for the Sunday Express in 2009.   His current whereabouts are hard to confirm, but one Ihor Miskiw, with an address very close one once held by Greg in Manchester, was named in bankruptcy petition at the end of 2010 by HM Customs and Revenue.  

Meanwhile, there's no new detail on Ian Edmondson, suspended by News International just before Christmas.