Murdoch's Scum Credentials All In Order I See

[General Dryness]

If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit.

 

Seriously though, Brooks and Coulson are going to get dragged through the shit and destroyed. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Problem is, and going back to the Star Wars theme, this is like nailing Vader and Moff Tarkin, but leaving the Emperor to carry on running his shitty evil empire unchallenged. I am of course referring to Murdoch, who will walk away from all of this scot fucking free. The massive antichrist that he is.

[Anubis]

How's that 'when anything happened I was on holiday and Andy was in charge' working out for you now, Rebekah?

[lifetime fan]

I'm going to enjoy every second of this.

[Strontium]

I'm going to enjoy every second of this.

...said Andy to Rebekah.

[Stu Monty]

Can't help but feel this might be the nail in Cameron's coffin. It'll just be a vat of shit to throw at his judgement.

 

*The funny thing being that the presumption is that he should have know they were corrupt snakes and not hired Coulson...as opposed to that being the very reason he was hired*

[Anubis]

Shag in haste, repent at Her Majesty's pleasure.

[Barney_Rubble]

I'm going to enjoy every second of this.

Absolutely, but...

Can't help but feel this might be the nail in Cameron's coffin. It'll just be a vat of shit to throw at his judgement.

 

*The funny thing being that the presumption is that he should have know they were corrupt snakes and not hired Coulson...as opposed to that being the very reason he was hired*

... watching Davey fucking Cameron hit the panic buttons is even better. The tory cunt started his diversion tactics already with his "Unite claims are shocking" bullshit, so I am going to see what happens next.

 

It would be hilarious if, as an act of desperation, that hideous cunt Brooks drags the whole fucking establishment down with her. That would be a joy to watch - like a slow-mo car crash.

[lifetime fan]

 

Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson is among eight defendants on trial

Then News of the World editor Andy Coulson told a senior journalist investigating an exclusive story on television celebrity Calum Best to "do his phone", a court has heard.

 

Mr Coulson emailed the instruction to his then head of news, Ian Edmondson, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said.

 

They feared a rival paper may get the story about the son of George Best and a woman, Mr Edis told the Old Bailey.

 

Mr Coulson and Mr Edmondson deny conspiracy to intercept communications.

 

Mr Edis said that in 2006, the now-closed News of the World (NoW) was investigating Calum Best, who was thought to be the father of a child with a woman who was willing to sell the story.

 

The NoW wanted the story as an exclusive and were paying the woman a lot of money, but were worried that Mr Best - whose father was the late Manchester United footballer George Best - might "leak" the story to their competition, the court heard.

 

Following an email discussion on the matter, Mr Coulson sent Mr Edmondson a message which read: "Do his phone."

 

"What does that mean?" Mr Edis asked the jury.

 

He added the evidence against Mr Edmondson was "overwhelming".

 

Celebrity targets

 

The court was also told that journalists at the paper used hacking as a "perfectly rational but entirely illegal" way of standing up stories.

 

Reporters would receive a tip-off about a story, and then use surveillance and phone hacking to check whether it was true before confronting those involved.

 

Alleged targets of the phone hacking included former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller, and former aide to Prince William and Prince Harry, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, the jury heard. The list also included former politician Lord Archer, cook Delia Smith, and model Abi Titmuss.

 

The court heard the newspaper had been tipped off about a rumoured affair - which was untrue - between Mr Clarke and his assistant, Hannah Pawlby, and journalists watched her home and accessed her voicemails.

 

Mr Edis said this demonstrated how the NoW had used three ways to investigate stories - phone hacking, surveillance, and confrontation - and in this case Mr Coulson had approached their target.

 

"The editor is personally involved in the third. Obviously he knows about the second, surveillance - he must do. What about the first? Does he know about phone hacking? He says he doesn't, we say 'Oh yes, he did'," he argued.

 

Mr Edis also told the jury that a hairdresser called Laura Rooney had had her phone hacked, even though she had no connection with England striker Wayne Rooney. They had thought she was related to him, Mr Edis said.

 

He said phone hacking had uncovered a claim that Prince Harry had broken rules at military training academy Sandhurst by asking an aide for help with an essay.

 

Mr Edis said the story in the NoW in 2005 came from a voicemail that was illegally accessed by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire on behalf of the newspaper's then royal editor Clive Goodman.

 

Royal directories

 

Allegations of inappropriate payments involving Mr Coulson and Goodman, who was convicted of phone hacking in 2007, were also outlined by Mr Edis.

 

 

The court heard that the News of the World was chasing a story about celebrity Calum Best

Police found 15 royal-related directories at Goodman's home, two of which the prosecution maintained were illegally bought from royal protection officers.

 

In 2003, Goodman emailed Mr Coulson to ask if he could pay a royal policeman £1,000 for another directory, saying: "These people will not be paid in anything other than cash because if they're discovered selling stuff to us they end up on criminal charges, as could we."

 

Mr Edis said that, as a result of that conversation, a cash payment of £1,000 was made to a David Farish, which turned out to be a false name.

 

"The investigation has never identified the policeman responsible for this," Mr Edis told the court.

 

But he added the conversation and payment were the "clearest possible evidence" of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office - a charge that Mr Coulson denies - and were linked to phone hacking.

 

The court heard the telephone directories were needed to assist targeting Sir Michael Peat, former principal private secretary to the Prince of Wales. The NoW's private investigator targeted him on the day the book was purchased.

 

The court heard that in June 2005, Goodman sent Mr Coulson an email saying: "One of our palace cops has got hold of a rare and just printed Palace staff phone book.

 

"Every job, every name, every number. We usually pay £1,000 for these. It's a very risky document for him to nick. Ok to put the credit through?"

 

Mr Edis said Mr Coulson did not reply to this email, but after Goodman followed up asking again for authorisation, the editor replied: "Fine."

 

The prosecutor told the jury that the use of the word "nick" would have "told Mr Coulson precisely that he was paying a policeman to commit a crime".

 

Mr Coulson and Mr Edmondson are among eight defendants - including former Sun and NoW editor Rebekah Brooks - who deny a range of charges at the Old Bailey.

 

The court heard on Wednesday that three former News of the World journalists, who are not on trial, and Mulcaire had pleaded guilty to phone-hacking charges.

 

The trial continues.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Bet the judge was doing his best straight face when he felt the need to show that ace Private Eye cover to the court.

[lifetime fan]

What makes it all the more enjoyable is the thought of the judge totting up the extra years he's going to add on to sentences for pleading not guilty and wasting his fucking time.

[littletedwest]

loved the line about her on have I got news for you

 

Rebekah Brooks has surrogate baby or as the sun would say

 

"ginger witch has frankenstein baby"

[Russ Atmosphere]

Will those that pleaded guilty be called as prosecution witnesses?

[Anubis]

Will those that pleaded guilty be called as prosecution witnesses?

 

Only if they're willing to give evidence. Even if they aren't,  their guilty pleas have at least assisted the Prosecution in getting over the first hurdle, namely establishing that a conspiracy existed - as the Prosecution can refer to the fact that they've pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy. They now have to show Coulson and Brooks were part of it.

[Rico1304]

Only if they're willing to give evidence. Even if they aren't,  their guilty pleas have at least assisted the Prosecution in getting over the first hurdle, namely establishing that a conspiracy existed - as the Prosecution can refer to the fact that they've pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy. They now have to show Coulson and Brooks were part of it.

Sorry mate that was an accidental neg, I've got fingers like cows tits.

[stevebaby]

Rebekah Brook's face says it all. It reflects the slowly dawning realization that she will soon be face-deep in Rosemary West's reeking minge. I feel quite chipper about this.

[General Dryness]

Rebekah Brook's face says it all. It reflects the slowly dawning realization that she will soon be face-deep in Rosemary West's reeking minge. I feel quite chipper about this.

 

*Shudders*. The 69 From Hell. A pungent storm of ginger pubes and bacon flaps.

[Captain]

Sorry mate that was an accidental neg, I've got fingers like cows tits.

 

Fixed.

[lifetime fan]

BBC News

 

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Andy Coulson 'never involved in hacking'

33 minutes ago

 

Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson faces phone hacking and corrupt payment charges

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson "was never party to any agreement to hack phones - whatever others might have been doing on his watch", an Old Bailey jury has heard.

 

His barrister Timothy Langdale QC was speaking after the conclusion of the prosecution opening statement.

 

He said Mr Coulson wished he had made some "different decisions" but "he did not commit these offences".

 

Mr Coulson, 45, of Charing, Kent, denies conspiracy to hack phones.

 

Mr Coulson, who also denies conspiracy to commit misconduct, left the newspaper industry in 2007 and went on to become Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director.

 

He is among eight defendants, who all deny the range of charges against them.

 

'Close to chest'

 

Making opening remarks, which he said was a "relatively uncommon" for a defence barrister, Mr Langdale said his client would be taking to the witness box later in the trial to give evidence about "the fast-moving world of Sunday tabloid journalism - a fiercely competitive world".

 

He said Mr Coulson's job was "not to know about every story during the week", adding there were "many thousands of pieces of information, many of which never got in the paper at all".

 

Reporters kept sources close to their chest, often protecting them from rivals on their own newspaper, Mr Langdale added.

 

And he told the court that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who has a conviction for phone hacking for the News of the World and has admitted other phone-hacking charges, had targeted the phone of Mr Coulson.

 

Mr Langdale said the case had "an unusual history" and "the trial itself will be unusually long".

 

He also warned about "unfair reporting" of events, saying the Guardian newspaper had been wrong to say in July 2011 that News of the World journalists had deleted messages on the phone of murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who went missing in 2002.

 

There was no evidence to suggest Mr Mulcaire or any other person acting for the paper had deleted any message "deliberately or accidentally", he said.

 

There was nothing the paper had done which gave rise to any "false hope" that Milly Dowler was still alive, he added.

 

Later the court heard from the first witness, Det Sgt Gregory Smith, who investigated the phone hacking allegations.

 

Jurors heard about a message from a recruitment firm left on the teenager's phone, a detail which became the subject of a News of the World story about her.

 

'Media firestorm'

 

Of the prosecution handling of the evidence, Mr Langdale said: "Their interpretation is wrong, their conclusions are wrong - there will be a time to reflect all that."

 

Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC earlier told the court that notebooks went missing amid the "media firestorm" caused by the revelation that News of the World journalists had hacked Milly Dowler's phone.

 

Those claims led to the closure of the paper in July 2011.

 

Mr Edis said News International executive Rebekah Brooks and others hid evidence as police investigated the newspaper.

 

He said security staff picked up a laptop and other material from Mrs Brooks's home in Oxfordshire, which was later found hidden in a bin bag near bins at her Chelsea Harbour flat.

 

The court heard that, after it was hidden, a member of the security team sent a text to former security chief Mark Hanna that said: "Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot."

 

Mrs Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World between 2000 and 2003, and her PA Cheryl Carter deny perverting the course of justice.

 

Mrs Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, denies a second similar charge, along with her husband Charlie Brooks and Mr Hanna.

 

She also denies conspiracy to intercept communications and conspiracy to commit misconduct.

 

The trial continues.

[Russ Atmosphere]

[Anubis]

The court heard that, after it was hidden, a member of the security team sent a text to former security chief Mark Hanna that said: "Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot."

 

 

This trial is going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you for the early present, Santa.

[littletedwest]

This trial is going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you for the early present, Santa.

almost as funny is the fact that after all that playing spies they (Brookes and husband) seemed to have forgotten about the laptop and let the cleaner pick it up

[Anubis]

 

Cameron attends Murdoch clan birthday despite Brooks trial

 

 

Eyebrows raised all round as Matthew Freud admits Cameron was there - having at first said he wasn’t

COLUMN LAST UPDATED AT 10:59 ON TUE 5 NOV 2013

 

FRESH questions about David Cameron’s judgment concerning his closeness to the Murdoch clan have been raised this morning after it was confirmed that both the PM and Chancellor George Osborne attended a 50th birthday party thrown by Matthew Freud and his wife Elisabeth Murdoch on Saturday.

 

Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive and flame-haired member of the Chipping Norton set, was absent from the party at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire. But the fact that Cameron and Osborne were there – in the midst of the phone-hacking trial involving Brooks and other former Murdoch executives - has raised eyebrows around Westminster.

 

And it doesn’t help that their presence at the bash was at first denied.

 

When Tim Walker, editor of the Mandrake gossip column, first wrote up the Saturday night bash for the online Telegraph on Sunday morning he reported that Freud had confirmed that neither Cameron nor Brooks were present.

 

But yesterday a spokesman for Freud came back to Walker with the “clarification” that not only was the PM there, but so was his Chancellor.

 

As Walker tweeted: “All the best lead diary stories should have the whole country screaming 'WTF?’ (What the F***?)”

 

WTF? has indeed been the general response this morning.  Daily Politics host Andrew Neil tweeted: “Matthew Freud ‘forgets’ David Cameron was at his 50th. As you do.”

 

Ben Brogan, deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, added: “So it turns out Dave (and George) were at Matthew Freud's b'day party after initial denials. Was that wise I wonder?”

 

There were plenty of other celebrities at the bash. Davina McCall and Jimmy Carr were among those treated to a performance from Bob Geldof and U2 frontman Bono. The duo joined forces to perform a rendition of Martha and the Vandellas’ Dancing in the Street.

 

“While the Prime Minister may have been absent, former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell made his presence known by playing the bagpipes,” said Walker in his initial report.

 

Downing Street has “form” when it comes to being reticent about Murdoch-related matters, says Walker today. “One thinks of the belated statement about the horse he rode that was lent to Miss Brooks by the police, and the Christmas party he attended at her home in 2010, along with James Murdoch, as News Corp was trying to take over BSkyB…

 

“The presence of the PM and the Chancellor at a gathering organised by a member of the Murdoch clan as Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, is on trial over phone hacking allegations is likely to lead to questions about their judgment.”

 

Quite.

 

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/hacking-trial/55918/cameron-attends-murdoch-clan-birthday-despite-brooks-trial#ixzz2jnt6d3IZ

[KMD7]

Simply Staggering

 

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[Russ Atmosphere]

Boomtown twat.

[stringvest]

Bob Geldof and Bono. Cameron, Osborne, and the Murdochs. The stuff of nightmares.