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The former editor of the Daily Mail has said he has only a “vague memory” of a box containing invoices worth £3m to private investigators being discovered in the newspaper’s offices.

Paul Dacre, 77, told the High Court he “really didn’t know” the details behind the documents, which were uncovered by a paralegal in the managing editor’s office in October last year.

Asked about the ledgers found by lawyers, he said: "I know there has been a most enormous search by Baker McKenzie for every document in this case, I d

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