Phone Hacking

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:02 am

Just gave Dacre a proper shoeing.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:04 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Just gave Dacre a proper shoeing.

Associated Newspapers' barrister looked a tad uncomfortable.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:36 am

<click> A light has just switched on in Mayle's head.

Sherborne should have been on yesterday but couldn't due to a family bereavement. Leveson accepted this but asked whether this would cause problems or embarrassment to other barristers representing newsgroups who will also be summarising their responses today. Sherborne has torn chunks out of Associated Newspapers and their barrister will follow Sherborne today, I think AN's barrister and AN would have preferred an overnight to let the dust settle.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:42 am

Quote:

• Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and five other former News of the World journalists, plus the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, charged over phone hacking.

• Six ex-News of the World employees, including Brooks and Coulson, face charges of conspiracy to intercept Milly Dowler's voicemail messages.

• The eight charged are: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Glenn Mulcaire, Greg Miskiw, Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup.

• All eight charged with a six-year conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages of more than 600 high-profile people.

• Neville Thurlbeck, the former News of the World chief reporter, and James Weatherup, the ex-assistant news editor, charged on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept the voicemails of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Timbo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:56 am

Excellent news! Thankfully:

So with a bit of luck, they'll be calling for the gallows.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:09 pm

Bizarrely, one of the victims to whom charges relate is David Blunkett, who's been on the NI payroll.

Has he taken the money and stuffed them anyway? He could redeem himself for being a cunt.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:18 pm

Associated Newspapers' QC has ducked any rebuttal to Sherborne's comments and merely given a self-serving whinge that everything will be just fine and dandy as long as things stay just as they are with a few minor tweaks.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:00 pm

News International QC is on his feet and complaining that they mostly got it right.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7417

Daley Mayle wrote:

Interesting that the UK has dropped from 8.3 to 7.8 in a decade and slipped four places.

If this were schools the papers would be full of it.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7417

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Bizarrely, one of the victims to whom charges relate is David Blunkett, who's been on the NI payroll.

Has he taken the money and stuffed them anyway? He could redeem himself for being a cunt.

I read it that the named victims were passive players in the piece.
Hacked for their celebrity or news-worthiness, as opposed to being actively anti NI.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:10 pm

NI didn't care who they hacked, one of their columnists or even Sarah Payne's mother.

In summary the newspapers have said, 'Gis another chance, we'll be good, honest. Throw us into the brier patch of self regulation.'

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4433

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18913397

The 'liars' stats are interesting.

Kreuzberger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:49 pm

mojojojo wrote:

Sorry if this has been posted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18913397

The 'liars' stats are interesting.

Aye well. Assuming you mean Blair (and I am not his biggest fan), it has been a while and it is wholly plausible that he would fail to recall the detail relating to events contained within Jay's forensic questioning. What excuse have the others got?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:51 pm

Sorry - does 'liars' refer to Blair? Or to all the politicians who couldn't remember?

Big Rob · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:16 am

Daley Mayle wrote:

Sarah Payne's mother.

At times I wanted to smile about this (NI getting their 'comeuppance'). Then there is Sarah Payne's mother.

As a parent, that must have been truly horrendous.

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