A PRIVATE investigator embroiled in a tabloid newspaper phone-hacking scandal has failed in a bid to keep secret the name of the journalist who instructed him to intercept messages.

The Supreme Court said Glenn Mulcaire, who worked for the now-defunct News of the World, must disclose the identity of the "person instructing him" to lawyers representing a woman who claims her phone was hacked and wants damages.

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