Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[butchersapron]

(credit: Jason Hazeley)

 

[killer b]

you know you're fucked when keith vaz is pwning your arse.

 

[invisibleplanet]

''There is little worse than a bent copper who mocks the law by abusing the privileged powers bestowed on him.''

Andy Hayman, Feb 2010.

 

[baffled]

"this is coming across more Clouseau than Columbo" was one of Vaz's better lines

 

[dylans]

I don't know about you guys but i'm beginning see this Hayman bloke as a bit of a dodgy geezer

 

[Maidmarian]

I don't know about you guys but i'm beginning see this Hayman bloke as a bit of a dodgy geezer

Ya reckon ?

 

[butchersapron]

Re: Clegg asking Murdoch to reconsider his BskyB bid. No other fucker listens to him, why should Murdoch?

 

[Ted Striker]

Re: Clegg asking Murdoch to reconsider his BskyB bid. No other fucker listens to him, why should Murdoch?

Although you welcome his position as an objective observer - no chance his phone was hacked as no-one would tell him anything!

 

[two sheds]

Re: Clegg asking Murdoch to reconsider his BskyB bid. No other fucker listens to him, why should Murdoch?

Yep like when Hague told Syria to abandon repression. "Ooooh yes immediately, sir."

 

[Louloubelle]

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[frogwoman]

Phew

I would usually be all outraged out on this kind of thing by now, but the way this is unravelling real time in front of us, I cant seem to detach from it...

same, its gripping, i cant tear myself away from it

 

[ymu]

2.12pm: Back at the home affairs hearing, Akers has suggested that no one will be charged in the current investigation until October.

She also named the News International executives liaising with the police in the inquiry. They are Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg.

Oh, what a surprise, Peston's mate has been assigned police liaison duties. I can understand Brooks not seeing it as ridiculously inappropriate to use Peston for her own purposes whilst making zero effort to hide it - she probably thinks being so blatant is hilarious, as well as having been a good way to exercise power previously. But Peston agreeing to it? Now?

Beggars belief. The BBC should be well onto this by now. They can't let fucking Peston screw up their credibility on this.

 

[butchersapron]

Peston's two mates. He's 'close' to Green berg too.

 

[butchersapron]

Just read that the NI share price drop has allowed Murdoch to buy back £5 billion. (that's from that guido fawkes right winger mind)

 

[ymu]

same, its gripping, i cant tear myself away from it

Then you'll be delighted to know that

At the end of her evidence, Sue Akers said that the police had only contacted 173 of the 4,000-odd people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files.

Should take a while to drip feed the rest to the media.

 

[frogwoman]

Bloody hell, that's pitiful.

 

[ViolentPanda]

How the hell did Andy Hayman make Asst Commissioner?!

Fuck knows, especially if you've had the misfortune to read the whining, buck-passing wanker's "autobiography" (ghost-written, of course).

 

[DaveCinzano]

Then you'll be delighted to know that

Should take a while to drip feed the rest to the media.

Wasn't it that there were roughly 4,000 names where there was a first and last name; and then about 9,000 phone numbers, landline and mobile, to sift through?

 

[ymu]

Peston's two mates. He's 'close' to Green berg too.

Cheers. I'm only just catching up on Greenberg. IIRC he was appointed around the same time as Lewis, when Brooks decided to surround herself with loyal acolytes because Colin Myler hated her guts.

There was a good article looking at this, but it's somewhere in the masses of stuff that comes up on google for this search.

I'll keep looking.

 

[ymu]

Just read that the NI share price drop has allowed Murdoch to buy back £5 billion. (that's from that guido fawkes right winger mind)

BBC are twittering it as "bloody hell, there's a $5bn share buyback!"

Murdoch trying to shore up the share price, presumably. Possibly with the bonus of a face-saving deal with some investors who want quietly out?

 

[ymu]

Wasn't it that there were roughly 4,000 names where there was a first and last name; and then about 9,000 phone numbers, landline and mobile, to sift through?

The numbers change all the time, and there's now more than one set of documents.

Someone reported NI senior insider estimates of 80,000 people hacked. If it was Peston, we can consider that true.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The numbers change all the time, and there's now more than one set of documents.

Someone reported NI senior insider estimates of 80,000 people hacked. If it was Peston, we can consider that true.

I thought we were talking about the figures in Akers' evidence.

 

[claphamboy]

http://gawker.com/5820243/jon-stewart-tackles-the-news-of-the-world-scandal

For anyone interested in the US take on this, that ^^ is a Jon Stewart's Daily Show clip. And a damn fine one too. [/QUOTE]

That's worth watching for anyone that hasn't yet - classic.

 

[ymu]

I thought we were talking about the figures in Akers' evidence.

I assumed not because I quoted from the Guardian liveblog. Were you quoting from Akers' evidence? I didn't watch it on TV, so I don't know how badly I was lied to by the journalist I am relying on.

 

[equationgirl]

Reading is obviously not a skill required by Andy Hayman. Muppet.

 

[agricola]

I assumed not because I quoted from the Guardian liveblog. Were you quoting from Akers' evidence? I didn't watch it on TV, so I don't know how badly I was lied to by the journalist I am relying on.

Akers said that there are 4000 in the original Mulcaire evidence, which has led to others (though I didnt hear a number when I was listening) that have been identified as potential victims - apparently the initial number that had been passed to / obtained by Mulcaire was sometimes followed by other numbers, which could only be easily identified once they had spoke to an initial victim (eg: they were on their friends and family list, or were numbers of personal friends etc etc).*

* though I was only half listening when I heard this

 

[butchersapron]

Reading is obviously not a skill required by Andy Hayman. Muppet.

Doesn't seem to be a skill required by the met at all going by Yates earlier.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Reading is obviously not a skill required by Andy Hayman. Muppet.

I would imagine a police officer of Hayman's pedigree would be more comfortable with verbals than writtens.

 

[equationgirl]

I really really hope they all get their karmic payback.

 

[equationgirl]

I would imagine a police officer of Hayman's pedigree would be more comfortable with verbals than writtens.

Or the blackmails.