Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the Screws

"do you have any regrets?"

Where did they get this ****ing numpty?

No, nae regrets pal. Get it up yis!

What on earth do you expect the answer to that question to be in the current circumstances?
 
Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World who was arrested and bailed by detectives investigating phone-hacking, may have provided Andy Coulson with "some informal advice on a voluntary basis before the election," according to the Tories.

The party said: "We can confirm that apart from Andy Coulson, neither David Cameron nor any senior member of the campaign team were aware of this until this week."

SkyNews.
 
Just been reading up on today's stuff (busy day at work so no surfing for me).

  • Mr Murdoch Snr and Mr Murdoch Jnr voluntarily went to see a bunch of crooks, despite not being UK citizens. Good on them :).
  • The crooks asked the Murdochs a load of questions about NOTW.
  • Don't know why the crooks wanted to ask some questions, I thought the Plod was gonna investigate it all?
  • Some of the questions seemed a bit dim - asking about petty cash etc. Duh, the Murdochs are the boss. Why the **** would they know what the little people at the bottom of the foodchain are doing. Heck in a normal compnay the boss is removed from the action, let alone when Murdoch employs 53,000 people and the whole of NOTW was only 200 people. That's less than 1% FFS. What planet are the MPs on. Ginger woman Brooks might have more of a clue.
  • Speaking of the crooks, I've heard a lot of people ask who they are... how they were chosen etc. Guess they're the MPs that had nothing better to do with the day... so after they've finished asking a load of questions can we sack them as they evidently have nothing to do!
  • Then whilst one of the crooks was asking one of the Murdochs a question some scruffy man (I assume it wasn't one of the crooks) came and chucked something at Mr Murdoch Snr. Where were the Plod? Too busy eating doughnuts, or selling books of stolen phone numbers I guess... not doing their ****ing job!
 
No it's called assault, the protestor was already being restrained when she hit him (she gave him a nosebleed I think).

Meh, he deserved it. Cant help laugh at the fact that she dose not seem to hesitate but goes straight in with a slap...

Hows Brooks doing? Haven't being following it...
 
I can also summarise:

- Everyone knows that knowledge and indeed authorisation of phone hacking etc goes fairly high up, at least within News International.
- Everyone knows that this practice probably has occurred routinely in much of the press, especially the tabloid press, i.e. other newspaper groups.
- Everyone knows that certain information is bought from the police, again regardless of which newspaper group.

It's just a question of whether enough evidence can be found to prove the above. And it probably won't. There's no point asking senior executives "did you authorise/know about/approve xyz illicit activities", "why have you paid xyz an exorbitant amount of money out of court", "do you recall this that or the other". Thus this meeting is essentially redundant.
 
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