Dan Evans, the News of the World phone hacker, has admitted in court that a tearful voicemail message that he had said had been left by Sienna Miller about her relationship with Jude Law may have been from her sister.  He changed his evidence overnight about a message that he had said had been left by the actor in 2005 to her then stepmother Kelly Hoppen after it emerged that her fiance Law had been having a relationship with his nanny.  "I have been thinking very hard about this segment [of my evidence] and I have a nagging feeling that it might not have been Sienna who left this particular message. I think it could possibly have been her sister," he told the phone-hacking trial on Thursday.  Counsel for Andy Coulson, the then editor of the paper who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to hack phones, immediately seized upon the admission, asking: "Where does that come from?"  Evans explained that he had gone home last night and thought about it after he had been asked about voicemails during cross-examination on Wednesday.  "The rethink is I'm trying to be honest with everyone here," he said, adding that his recall of a hack nine years ago was not 100% perfect.  The jury heard that he had made a statement to the police asserting that this message was "from memory" from Sienna.  Asked by Timothy Langdale QC for Coulson which sister he now thought the message might be from he responded: "I thought it might have been her sister Savannah."  However, during the exchange he learned that Sienna had another half-sister, Natasha, and that she had been cited in the article that appeared in the paper in 2005.  "I do not actually remember [the voicemail]," he told the court. "I remember what I took from it, and I remember what I drafted [in an email about the voicemail].  "I do not think there is any key doubt about what happened here was I hacked Kelly Hoppen's voicemail.  The article that was prompted by the voicemail hack referred to Sienna's sisters "closing ranks" and offering "tea and sympathy" to her.  Asked where he had got this information, Evans said the "tea and sympathy" quotes were "inspired" by the voicemail and when writing for a tabloid a reporter had to imagine what might have been said.  "This is just tabloid quote fluff," he said explaining to the court that this was just what red-tops did. "It wasn't supposed to be a verbatim, forensic, precise information."  Asked where he had got the line that Sienna had "ended up sobbing down the phone to Kelly", he said it was "just made up".  He added: "This is copy, sanitised, spun up in tabloid style. This is for publication. This is put in the format the public will read. Whether or not it actually happened? I wasn't a fly on the wall in the room with the people having the conversation."  But he said his evidence that he hacked phones was still accurate. Earlier he had repeated an assertion he made on Monday that he had hacked "thousands" of messages when on the Sunday tabloid.
Dan Evans tells jury that message may not have been from star but from her sister, although he stands by phone-hacking claim. By Lisa O'Carroll