Gerry McCann is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry and describe how his wife Kate felt "mentally raped" when details of her diary were published.

The diary, written after Madeleine's disappearance, was leaked from the Portuguese Police files.

But will he tell of the couple's fears they may have had their phones hacked as well?

Certainly, the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell has talked to the Yard's hacking squad about his phone possibly being hacked, concerns apparently backed up by his network which found suspicious activity around his mobile.

I understand there is so far no hard evidence that Clarence's phone was hacked, but why hack his and not Kate's and Gerry's?

And it won't escape the cops' notice, surely, that if any McCann phone messages were intercepted, it can only have been after "the one rogue reporter" Clive Goodman was jailed and, according to the News of the World, phone hacking stopped.

Clive went to jail in late January, 2007. Nobody had heard of the McCanns until just over three months later when Madeleine vanished.