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

[butchersapron]

As a Sun / NOTW journalist, wouldnt he have had to not been an NUJ member? Or is their "staff association" thing a myth?

He may have been a member before/after - and after 97 there was nothing they could do anyway.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

<snip> I'm sure the Police autopsy will sort things out just fine.

Sure ...

 

[teqniq]

Where the fuck is Dr Freddy Patel when you need him?

oh dearie me

the cynicism on this thread is reaching new levels previously undreamt of.

 

[agricola]

Correct.

Under the circumstances, an immediate "death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious" statement would be extremely stupid unless it was a very obvious suicide - body in room locked from the inside and so on.

Not really. The statement they put out seems quite reasonable:

"At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for the welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

It reads more as if it is being treated as a normal sudden death, ie: there will be a report made by the officers who went there, the coroner will open an inquest and there will be an autopsy to try and determine the cause of death.

 

[invisibleplanet]

I feel very alarmed by all this London-centric corruption. The Met, the Mayor, the Murdoch Newspapers & Tv, and the two main political parties and their head honchos.

And still no-one is giving deserved prominence to the rushed health reform bill that will allow the privatisation of the NHS!

Around 60 campaigners assembled in a park in Hackney before marching to the local Homerton Hospital to speak out against the NHS reforms.

Hackney GP Dr Jonathon Tomlinson said a key message was that the government could not be trusted with the NHS and that the reforms posed a ‘serious threat’ to the viability of local hospitals and other services.

He said that despite the ‘extraordinary weather’ the atmosphere at the protest was ‘very jolly’.

‘It was like being at sea,' he said. 'You could barely see from one end of hospital car park to the other as the rain coming down horizontally in sheets. It was very good that people felt so strongly in those circumstances.'

Bronwen Handyside, secretary of the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, said the protestors included GPs, hospital consultants, local councillors and members of the campaign group.

She said: ‘We decided to come together to fight the Health Bill. It’s so urgent at this point as it's being rushed through parliament.

‘We wanted to ensure that the local community understands what the implications are for the health service and get people to take action now to show the government they are against the Bill.’
http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1080542/gps-stage-protest-against-nhs-reforms/

Nary a mention on the news.

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck off on to the thread about it then.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's FISH tonight, Lily.

You're my wife now, Dave.

 

[magneze]

"His death is not being treated as suspicious." There's probably over 59 million people here that would probably not agree with that.

 

[rikwakefield]

oh dearie me

the cynicism on this thread is reaching new levels previously undreamt of.

I am cynical, no denying that.

 

[butchersapron]

I am cynical, no denying that.

You are the opposite of cynical rik. OT

 

[frogwoman]

Anyone see channel 4 just now?

 

[ViolentPanda]

"His death is not being treated as suspicious..."

They forgot to include "...by the police" in the press release, didn't they?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Anyone see channel 4 just now?

No, something about that police bird on Crimewatch or something?

 

[butchersapron]

No, something about that police bird on Crimewatch or something?

Bird? Don't be one of them.

 

[magneze]

They forgot to include "...by the police" in the press release, didn't they?

The police don't think it is suspicious that the first person to go on record about the phone hacking scandal that exposed massive corruption in the police has been found dead just before a number of other people are about to go on record.

Fucking hell. Unbelievable.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Bird? Don't be one of them.

Dont start old boy, not in the mood.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Does anyone reckon this will bring down Dave?. Is it better to keep him in his job while this plays out?.

 

[butchersapron]

Brooks arrested!

 

[Badgers]

I did not see or hear the Channel 4 thing?

 

[butchersapron]

Does anyone reckon this will bring down Dave?. Is it better to keep him in his job while this plays out?.

For who? Who is making the decision?

 

[magneze]

Brooks arrested!

What for this time?

 

[killer b]

that was fast

that's not been knocked off in a couple of hours - looks like it's been in reserve. perhaps it isn't so suspicious after all...

 

[sleaterkinney]

Brooks arrested!

Again? . Her lawyer was making a big deal of no allegations being put to her in nine hours.

 

[Barking_Mad]

The police don't think it is suspicious that the first person to go on record about the phone hacking scandal that exposed massive corruption in the police has been found dead just before a number of other people are about to go on record.

Fucking hell. Unbelievable.

 

[Badgers]

Brooks arrested!

Again?

 

[butchersapron]

apols to all. i was craply parodying people who post stuff on the thread very late.

 

[sleaterkinney]

For who? Who is making the decision?

Better for the opposition to keep him and the bad press in there?. I get the feeling if Milliband really pushes the Coulson angle it could start to get very uncomfortable for him.

 

[Badgers]

Does anyone reckon this will bring down Dave?. Is it better to keep him in his job while this plays out?.

HopeSoHopeSoHopeSo

 

[butchersapron]

Better for the opposition to keep him and the bad press in there?. I get the feeling if Milliband really pushes the Coulson angle it could start to get very uncomfortable for him.

They can't remove him one way or the other. It's not a choice thing.

 

[agricola]

that was fast

that's not been knocked off in a couple of hours - looks like it's been in reserve. perhaps it isn't so suspicious after all...

I do wish Nick Davies would stop making this particular point:

He was equally offended when Scotland Yard's former assistant commissioner, John Yates, assigned officers to interview him, not as a witness but as a suspect. They told him anything he said could be used against him, and, to his credit, he refused to have anything to do with them.

The officers had to caution him in that regard - he was after all admitting to breaking the law, on many occasions. Davies should know this.