My dad: the phone hacker

This isn’t a redemption story.  I’m not trying to prove my dad’s just a man who made some bad choices, or that he was, ironically, vilified by the press.  Chances are you’ve already made up your own mind about what kind of person Greg Miskiw is, or more than likely you’ve never heard of him at all.

It was pantomime villain Rebekah Brooks who stole the News of the World phone hacking limelight.  Along with David Cameron’s ex-spin doctor Andy Coulson, the high profile pair would deflect the media’s gaze away from the eight other journalists on trial.  Brooks and Coulson may have played starring roles, but it was my dad who pleaded guilty.

Greg Miskiw is the archetype of a tabloid journalist.  He’s the one who was once quoted as saying: ‘This is what we do.  We go out and destroy other people’s lives.’

He was, and is, a man reminiscent of a simmering pot on the stove, always just on the verge of boiling over.