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

Good and bad monopolies

I love how the Tory fan club and the resident anarchist insist that a state monopoly is the ultimate evil but a private monopoly would be just dandy :D
 
Now, it's the Met, the News of the Screws & 7/7 victims

The Observer reports that the Metropolitan police may have passed contact details of victims of the 7/7 bombings to the News of the Screws:
Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors' Coalition Foundation, said that a number of 7/7 victims suspected that personal contact details, including mobile phone and ex-directory landline numbers as well as home addresses, were passed by officers to News of the World journalists.

The former security consultant, who specialised in counter-terrorism, said she had been contacted by a number of survivors of the bombings who said they had been approached by News of the World reporters with bogus stories of how they obtained their details, which they believe may have originated with the police. (The Observer)
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Are there no lengths to which the thoroughly disgraced Metropolitan Police would not stoop :confused:
 
PermaBanned said:
And who, might i ask, is the resident anarchist? :p
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He is mistakenly talking about (or more probably deliberately misrpresenting the case) of Dolph. Though to be fair as stockhausen is an extremely authoritarian socialist I would assume anyone right of his position would be considered an anarchist...
 
stockhausen said:
The Observer reports that the Metropolitan police may have passed contact details of victims of the 7/7 bombings to the News of the Screws:Are there no lengths to which the thoroughly disgraced Metropolitan Police would not stoop :confused:
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Get some perspective, please. There are some corrupt officers.
 
OldCoals said:
Get some perspective, please. There are some corrupt officers.
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How do reporters get to meet so many bent officers for info without ever bumping into a straight one ?

Do they just randomly stop an officer and offer him a bribe ? surely an officer would arrest anyone trying to bribe him/her.

Do all the bent coppers know each other and point each other out when someone wants to buy info ...or is it a case of selling info to reporters is an OK thing to do in the force ?

to me it's not coming across as 1 or 2 bad apples.
 
I think it has been the case with certain departments in the MET that it was the norm to give info to journalists and that there was nothing really wrong with it. Glady that will now change and hopefully both the MET and politicians can get a more balanced and legal not to mention overall better relationship going with the media.

Personally i wouldn't be sorry to see the back of all murdoch media as i don't think it has done anything over the years but try and get us all at each others throats targetting individual groups and blaming them for all our ill's.
 
Amnesia said:
How do reporters get to meet so many bent officers for info without ever bumping into a straight one ?

Do they just randomly stop an officer and offer him a bribe ? surely an officer would arrest anyone trying to bribe him/her.
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never occur to you that maybe the bent officers go to the press to try and get money rather than the press come to them?
 
Tefal said:
never occur to you that maybe the bent officers go to the press to try and get money rather than the press come to them?
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how would these bent coppers know who to go to ?....surely a copper doesnt just decide one day he wants to make a bit of extra money and automatically in his head know who buys info from cops.

if its well know amongst police officers that certain reporters buy this info then it makes it even worse, for it to be well known and acceptable.
 
The Grauniad reports that a "special committee" at the Wall Street Journal has criticised the News Corporation paper's coverage of the phone-hacking scandal at its parent company, calling it too slow, and slamming the paper for an interview with Rupert Murdoch it characterised as not being tough enough.

Good on them :)
 
Confirmation now that Sarah PAyne's mothers phone was hacked. This was the phone given to her by the NoTW. Wonder if this story will go much lower.
 
moody said:
Confirmation now that Sarah Payne's mother's phone was hacked. This was the phone given to her by the NoTW. Wonder if this story will go much lower.
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Yup, WHAT a coincidence . . .
Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone which Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne as gift. (The Grauniad)
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Who said that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth? :mad:

I really hope that Brooks / Wade ends up doing time, along with Coulson and both Murdochs - absolute contemptible scum, the lot of them.
 
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Murdochs savaged by Harbottle & Lewis

Harbottle & Lewis, the media law firm, has launched a withering attack on News International and the Murdochs in written evidence it has given to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. (BBC online)
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Is it possible that deliberately misrepresenting a letter from Harbottle & Lewis in order to mislead a Parliamentary committee will finally land James Murdoch in jail?

I wonder whether Cameron will now pluck up the courage really to go after NewsCorpse and the Murdochs . . . all in line with his new found "respect" campaign?
 
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