Mosley 'committed crime on himself'

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Colin Myler said that the role-play which included the 68-year-old being caned until blood was drawn did not just have a Nazi element to it, but also a "potential criminal flavour".

Cross-examining, Mr Mosley's QC, James Price, said one would expect beatings at an S and M session.

Mr Myler replied: "You say it was S and M but blood was drawn. I know it was drawn because he had a plaster on his bottom. I think it was after he'd had 15 beatings of the cane."

Mr Price said the newspaper was accusing Mr Mosley of "instigating a crime upon himself".

"Are you serious?", he asked Mr Myler. The editor replied: "It is what Mr Mosley did. The News of the World did not take Mr Mosley kicking and screaming to that apartment, that flat in Chelsea.

"The News of the World did not engage five girls for five hours of what went on - which was brutal."

Mr Myler has told Mr Justice Eady, who is hearing the landmark breach of privacy action in London, that he believed the story was one of "legitimate public interest and one that I believe was legitimately published". It was "absolutely not true" that the paper fabricated the Nazi aspect of the story.

Mr Mosley, the 68-year-old son of the 1930s Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, says that his life was devastated by the expose in March of what the newspaper called a "sick Nazi orgy with five hookers", and is asking for an unprecedented award of punitive exemplary damages.

Mr Price has said that the "gross and indefensible intrusion" was made substantially worse by the entirely false suggestion that Mr Mosley, president of the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) was playing a concentration camp commandant and a cowering death camp inmate.