The defendant told the court he hired investigators to find the addresses of freelance journalist Andrew Young and editor Jacob Dirnhuber.
In Southwark Crown Court today, he insisted he did not want to hurt their families. Explaining he wanted to “put pressure on them”, he told jurors: “I wanted to find the journalists.”
The defendant denied that hiring the private investigators, who he enlisted to take photographs of the journalists’ homes, was meant to “intimidate them”.
When asked whether there was “any need at all” to share picture of the home addresses, Robinson said: “As I said at the time, I was desperate and I didn’t publish their addresses or their images.
“It was an attempt to bring the Daily Mail to the table.”
