Seems a very slimy character looking at his wikipedia page:
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n November 2011 he made a notable contribution to the Leveson Inquiry where he not only confessed to a wide range of illegal activities in the pursuit of news but defended them as absolutely necessary...McMullan notably told the enquiry that "Privacy is for paedos".
McMullan testified to having undertaken a wide range of illegal or unethical activities to get stories besides phone hacking: bribing police officers, stealing documents, going through celebrities' rubbish bins, and at one point posing as a "teenage rent boy" to entrap a paedophile priest...
"[Do] we really want to live in a world where the only people who can do the hacking are MI5 and MI6?" he asked. "For a brief period of about 20 years, we have actually lived in a free society where we can hack back".[4] He scoffed at the very notion of privacy, calling it "the space bad people need to do bad things in."[3]
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And then there's this:
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McMullan owns and runs The Castle Inn, a public house near the Port of Dover, Kent[7] In August 2011, he tried to apply for a licence for topless barmaids in the pub. This was later refused.[8]
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