Andy Coulson, the Met Police and Murdoch

[MellySingsDoom]

This thread is like the Lee Perry-helmed Wailers sessions, that only those in the know knew about before Marley hit us with "Catch A Fire".

 

[DaveCinzano]

Whittamore is (or was) emphatically part of the wider problem, rather than just Coulson - as the report states the Mail and Mirror used him a lot more than the NOTW did, so one wonders whether this will ratchet up the pressure on Coulson at all.

God knows what he is whinging about though, anyone else who had directed as much corrupt activity as he is alleged to have done (and indeed was convicted of - he got access to the PNC via a CAD operator at Wandsworth) would be looking at a far more substantial prison sentence than the two years suspended sentence he in fact recieved.

More on Whittamore - and the Mail:

‘Mail’ lawyers threaten ByLine over articles on convicted phone blagging PI Steve Whittamore

 

[DaveCinzano]

More on Whittamore - and the Mail:

‘Mail’ lawyers threaten ByLine over articles on convicted phone blagging PI Steve Whittamore

A mere 5 years on and things are slowly heating up...

Doreen Lawrence, Prince Harry and others launch legal action against Daily Mail publisher

Famous figures including Elton John accuse Associated Newspapers of ‘gross breaches of privacy’

www.theguardian.com

A feisty response from the Mail's wigs:

Associated Newspapers vehemently denied the allegations.

A spokesman for the company said: “We utterly and unambiguously refute these preposterous smears which appear to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal concerning articles up to 30 years old.

“These unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims – based on no credible evidence – appear to be simply a fishing expedition by claimants and their lawyers, some of whom have already pursued cases elsewhere.”

Best hope no disgruntled hacks ever screenshotted any lawyer notes off PMS or FastFoto eh lads