My parents grew vegetables in our backyard growing up but I was only ever involved in the maintenance and harvesting.
It only ever instilled a sense of discipline".
Taken alongside other guilty pleas before the trial, the verdict puts paid to the idea that former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, convicted in 2006, were the only people ever involved.
On Tuesday, the Home Affairs committee also heard evidence that News International had for years held onto emails and other documents that showed evidence of a scandal that reached beyond Goodman and Mulcaire, who were initially painted as the only two people ever involved in hacking.
Caring, who has refused to attend parliament in person to give evidence, said he was not in a position to assess why BHS had failed as he was not closely involved in the business after 2006 and had only ever been involved in running its women's clothing business.
"I would like at some stage to have done something else, rather than retiring finally having only ever been involved in motor racing," he said, adding that he might like to design yachts for racing.
The justice secretary said he had only ever been involved in one discussion on the availability of reading material behind bars – and that was to allow EL James' erotic thriller Fifty Shades Of Grey to be circulated in women's prisons.
The only time he was ever involved in a violent episode, he said, was a barroom brawl some 20 years ago.
And it's nothing I was ever involved in.
And does it ever involve jumping over hurdles?
