NoW phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead

Dark Sun · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:33

A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14194623

contracteur · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:37

Thanks.

Morgoth · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:37

Go go gadget RSS feed.

Dark Sun · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:38

Go go conspiracy theorists

Sho · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:38

iamTakeo · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:44

There are no limits when there is money involved.

edit: "the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious" hmmmm

UK-AL05 · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:45

Whats the methodology for determining if something is suspicious? If a whistleblower for a big story suddenly dies at the height of the story, I'd regard that as suspicious. It could end up being non-related which it probably is, but its still suspicious..

Especially suspicious, since the police have already been proven to be trying to avoid investigations into the same story.

Robbo · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:45

Dark Sun said:
Go go conspiracy theorists

You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to admit it looks a bit dodgy...

Noxia · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:45

I've tried to care about the whole thing but I find it terribly uninteresting.

RomanNose · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:46

Go go power rangers.

Richie · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:47

UK-AL05 said:
Whats the methodology for determining if something is suspicious?

It depends on the circumstances in which he was found and any marks or injuries on his body e.g. recent bruising, stab wounds etc.

Unexplained simply means that the doctor that attended could not establish a cause of death based on the deceased's medical history therefore a PM will need to be arranged. Given his history of previous drug misuse, a full toxicology test will also be done.

uniQ · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:51

Doesn't give much info into his death. Probably turn out it was suicide.

Glaucus · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:53

iamTakeo said:
There are no limits when there is money involved.

edit: "the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious" hmmmm

What's hmm about it, see this post.
We will have to wait for a post mortem.

Richie said:
It depends on the circumstances in which he was found and any marks or injuries on his body e.g. recent bruising, stab wounds etc.

Unexplained simply means that the doctor that attended could not establish a cause of death based on the deceased's medical history therefore a PM will need to be arranged. Given his history of previous drug misuse, a full toxicology test will also be done.

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Jul 2011 at 21:56

I bet someones killed him due to whats happened with the NOTW.

Shayper · 18 Jul 2011 at 22:24

I sense incoming magnolia rage about the link&run

magick · 19 Jul 2011 at 10:51

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/a...d-let-us-not-jump-to-conclusions/#dsq-content

One stooge for the Telegraph made an article within a few hours saying not to treat his death as suspiscious though by reading the comments most people aren't falling for it.

Cosimo · 19 Jul 2011 at 12:49

uniQ said:
Doesn't give much info into his death. Probably turn out it was suicide.

That or caused by his drugs/booze abuse. I'm surprised that the conspiracy mob hasn’t arrived in force.

Pixel · 19 Jul 2011 at 13:10

simulatorman said:
That or caused by his drugs/booze abuse. I'm surprised that the conspiracy mob hasn’t arrived in force.

Sorry, there's a sale on at Tesco, half-price tin foil.

It's too early to say anything anyway, lets just hope we don't have another Dr. Kelly incident on our hands.

steve-h · 19 Jul 2011 at 13:36

simulatorman said:
That or caused by his drugs/booze abuse. I'm surprised that the conspiracy mob hasn’t arrived in force.

Well there's been close to no info released so people don't have much to go on.

We'll just have to believe what the news writes.