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

My decidedly unpolitically active housemate started a conversation with me this morning like this...

"I woke up this morning, and was thinking about how rotten this whole thing is - the police are bent, the media are bent and I reckon even Cameron's going to get fucked over through this"

:D
 
As mentioned on the other thread if NI were happy to hack the phones/voicemails of the Dowler family then what about the McCanns?
 
I like to think that in times of crisis, a little voice in Boris' head asks the question, "What would Darius do?"
 
Pickman's model said:
http://www.inbrief.co.uk/offences/blackmail.htm
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Interesting stuff PM:

In order to prove the criminal offence of blackmail it must be shown that the defendant has done the following things:

That the defendant made a demand (f a demand is implied this may be enough to prove blackmail under the Theft Act)
With menaces (forms of menaces such as a threat to expose some form of secret will be deemed enough to constitute blackmail for the purposes of the Theft Act. )
That the demand was unwarranted
That the defendant has a view to make a gain for himself or another or have intent to cause a loss to another
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'some form of secret' eh, I wonder whether that would ever have applied ...
 
It's not a joking matter, smokedout. Maddie's parents could be tortured right now with untold fears, such as 'whether any attempts to hold her hostage/ransom her were deleted by a hack', as could a whole host of other victims' families who are unwillingly subjected to this dark scandal.
 
invisibleplanet said:
It's not a joking matter, smokedout. Maddie's parents could be tortured right now with untold fears, such as 'whether any attempts to hold her hostage/ransom her were deleted by a hack', as could a whole host of other victims' families who are unwillingly subjected to this dark scandal.
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Which they would doubtlessly tell to any reputable newspaper for a nominal donation to the Maddie finding fund (NEXT YEAR IN THE SEYCHELLES!)
 
Balbi said:
Which they would doubtlessly tell to any reputable newspaper for a nominal donation to the Maddie finding fund (NEXT YEAR IN THE SEYCHELLES!)
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This sort of cynicism toward the McCann family regarding their efforts to find their daughter is normally the sort of thing the NotW would indulge in...
 
The media/PR strategy in the US appears to be very different than over here. Here it's oh so humble apologies. Over there the WSJ today publishes an editorial claiming the journalism that uncovered all this is the equivalent of the wikileaks embassy stuff i.e they're trying to kill our boys. Along with a host of other aggressive attacks they'd not dare print over here. Plan to poison the atmosphere against people who attack Murdoch before any real US revelations come out.
 
butchersapron said:
The media/PR strategy in the US appears to be very different than over here. Here it's oh so humble apologies. Over there the WSJ today publishes an editorial claiming the journalism that uncovered all this is the equivalent of the wikileaks embassy stuff i.e they're trying to kill our boys. Along with a host of other aggressive attacks they'd not dare print over here. Plan to poison the atmosphere against people who attack Murdoch before any real US revelations come out.
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I can see that strategy working temporarily on the type of fuckwit that watches Fox News and thinks GW Bush was a good president, but once the jailings begin here and the whistleblowers start whistling, it'll be game over. People formally employed by Fox will be eager to tell their stories once the threats from the Murdoch mafia become toothless.
 
butchersapron said:
The media/PR strategy in the US appears to be very different than over here. Here it's oh so humble apologies. Over there the WSJ today publishes an Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial claiming the journalism that uncovered all this is the equivalent of the wikileaks embassy stuff i.e they're trying to kill our boys. Along with a host of other aggressive attacks they'd not dare print over here. Plan to poison the atmosphere against people who attack Murdoch before any real US revelations come out.
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News Corp purchase The Wall Street Journal: ''The US$5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit and London's The Times, and locally within New York, the New York Post, along with Fox flagship station WNYW (Channel 5) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR (Channel 9).''[23]
 
BBC News reporting that it was John Yates who did the appointing/due diligence over the appointment of Wallis.
 
The Home Affairs Select Committee have now 'invited' John Yates to their meeting tomorrow, the same one Stephenson is attending....
 
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