Daily Mail journalist had never heard of gumshoe firm

A Daily Mail features writer told a court he had never even heard of a firm of private investigators a colleague is accused of using to get information on Stephen Lawrence’s mother. Richard Pendlebury was asked about ELI (Express Locate International) which crime reporter Stephen Wright is said to have employed. ‘I don’t know what ELI is. I don’t know if it is a private investigator, or a search engine,’ Mr Pendlebury told the High Court. ‘I just don’t know…