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Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:

And now the police handling of the whole sorry mess is back in focus:

Apparently Levi Bellfield's lawyer is considering an appeal against his conviction for Milly Dowler's murder on the grounds that the they weren't told about the phone-hacking evidence, and that could have damaged his defence... 

awww-trouble is - that shit could work in his favour

what a complete **** up

pirate1111
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:

And now the police handling of the whole sorry mess is back in focus:

Apparently Levi Bellfield's lawyer is considering an appeal against his conviction for Milly Dowler's murder on the grounds that the they weren't told about the phone-hacking evidence, and that could have damaged his defence... 

awww-trouble is - that shit could work in his favour

what a complete **** up

i said f*ck up

pirate1111

Boy, is it moving fast now...

Robert Peston has just said that contacts in NI have informed him that NI have provided the police with e-mails which apparently show that Andy Coulson paid police officers for information.

Important fact to note: Robert Peston's reliance on contacts within NI has become so well-known it's starting to embarrass the BBC. Only today, Toby Young described Peston as "News International's press officer".

 

So... it's beginning to look as if NI are setting Coulson up as a sacrificial lamb, with the implied threat of further embarrassing the Prime Minister if he tries to intervene. It may all come down to the number of skeletons in cupboards that Coulson knows about .

I think we could be about to witness a corporate bloodbath...

Eugene's Lair
Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:

Boy, is it moving fast now...

Robert Peston has just said that contacts in NI have informed him that NI have provided the police with e-mails which apparently show that Andy Coulson paid police officers for information.

Important fact to note: Robert Peston's reliance on contacts within NI has become so well-known it's starting to embarrass the BBC. Only today, Toby Young described Peston as "News International's press officer".

 

So... it's beginning to look as if NI are setting Coulson up as a sacrificial lamb, with the implied threat of further embarrassing the Prime Minister if he tries to intervene. It may all come down to the number of skeletons in cupboards that Coulson knows about .

I think we could be about to witness a corporate bloodbath...

Brookes herself admitted paying police during parlimentary enquiry.  Coulson sat next to her in silence.

Smarting Buttocks
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Any Grauniad readers on here read that NI reps had paid the police for news years ago. We've been banging on about this for ages. Every time a hacking news item surfaced their papers came out with some inconsequential celeb/x Factor/footballer story. Sadly I believe that they will ride this storm too.

I don't know so much Joe, there's a lot of anger about this, when it was celebs being hacked I don't think people generally were too bothered, but I think folk see this as a step too far 

FM
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Any Grauniad readers on here read that NI reps had paid the police for news years ago. We've been banging on about this for ages.

That's true, but the problem has so far been a lack of evidence. It was incredible that Brooks could make that comment in a  parlimentary enquiry and yet no one got picked up for it.

 

Now evidence appears to have been produced, and what do you know: it's NI shopping one of their own...

Eugene's Lair

Ford Britain said it was withdrawing its advertising from News of the World until there was an outcome from its investigation.

"Ford is a company which cares about standards of behaviour of its own people and those it deals with externally," the carmaker said in a statement.

A spokesman for T-Mobile said the firm was reviewing its advertising position with the News of the World, while supermarket chain Tesco said the latest allegations would "cause huge distress to a family which has suffered enough" and said it was awaiting the result of the police inquiry.

FM
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:
Originally Posted by erinp:

! They were sitting at around 28000 sent this afternoon erin, and aiming for 40,000..  been a great response!

Wow,I just came across this on another site,posted it here and emailed friends,It all helps

Did you see the other link I posted on page 1 of this? worth signing too..

FM
Originally Posted by erinp:

Ford Britain said it was withdrawing its advertising from News of the World until there was an outcome from its investigation.

"Ford is a company which cares about standards of behaviour of its own people and those it deals with externally," the carmaker said in a statement.

A spokesman for T-Mobile said the firm was reviewing its advertising position with the News of the World, while supermarket chain Tesco said the latest allegations would "cause huge distress to a family which has suffered enough" and said it was awaiting the result of the police inquiry.

Bit of a cop-out from Tesco there..

FM

And today's news - BBC article

 

Families of 7/7 bombing victims may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World, it has emerged.

A solicitor representing some of the relatives said one family had been contacted by police and told their phone may have been hacked in 2005.

New allegations have also emerged of payments to the police by the paper.

The tabloid's owners have passed to the police e-mails which appear to show that payments were authorised by the then editor, Andy Coulson.

El Loro

I didn't see Newsnight last night but reading danny Baker's comments on Twitter he's been scathing about it...suggesting it was treated like a naughty schoolboy jape.

 

And Olly thingy whose surname escapes me for the moment has, on GMTV, suggested its just the latter day equivalent of journalists going through poeples rubbish to glean information.

 

NO IT BLOODY ISN'T!!

Croctacus
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:
Originally Posted by erinp:

! They were sitting at around 28000 sent this afternoon erin, and aiming for 40,000..  been a great response!

Wow,I just came across this on another site,posted it here and emailed friends,It all helps

Did you see the other link I posted on page 1 of this? worth signing too..


Went back to the link ,have now signed.Brought it forward Slinkiwitch for others to sign.

http://hackinginquiry.org/subs/?p=subscribe&id=1

FM
Evidence being presented now by Tom Watson in the Commons about what exactly Rebekah Brooks knew regarding allegedly illegal acts by her employees in 2002.

He's now going for James Murdoch for organising a NOTW cover-up and his attempting to pervert the course of justice .

Sheridan's trial may be revisited.

 

FM
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It's difficult to know where to begin with Rebekah Wade/Brook's letter (see above),  but one starting point would be the way in which it implies that all the hacking was down to Glen Mulcaire and Clive Goodman.

That claim will be completely blown out of the water if the claim that people close to the McCanns were targetted prove to be true (Clarence Mitchell, the McCann's spokesman, talked about this last night, and he's been warned his phone may have been hacked).

 

Mulcaire and Gooman were jailed in January 2007. Madeleine McCann went missing in May...

Eugene's Lair
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi...oulson-phone-hacking

 

Trying to get the Rebekah one off the hook . Coulson will be the fall guy , eh?

Well, Coulson said yesterday that he thought he was being set up to protect Brooks and NI in general.

 

As for the article:

So Brooks was on holiday when Milly Dowler's phone was hacked, and was again on holiday when the father of Jessica Chapman had his phone hacked. And presumably when other hacking cases during 2002 come to light, it will turn out she was on holiday then too. Editing a national Sunday newspaper: nice work if you can get it, eh?

 

Seriously, it comes back to my earlier point about Brooks being in a no-win situation: either she knew about the hacking, or else she's the most useless and incompetent newspaper editor ever...

Eugene's Lair
Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:

So Brooks was on holiday when Milly Dowler's phone was hacked, and was again on holiday when the father of Jessica Chapman had his phone hacked. And presumably when other hacking cases during 2002 come to light, it will turn out she was on holiday then too. Editing a national Sunday newspaper: nice work if you can get it, eh?

 

I'm sure they had her number to contact her ..

 

You're right, she's either in it up to her neck or a complete waste of space as a manager .Or maybe both ?

FM

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