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

[killer b]

It must be difficult for Tom Watson now; part of a Parliamentary committee (and Chair) way out of their legal (and otherwise) depth - and which has also been rendered an irrelevant side show by the terms of the Public Inquiry, and yet in no small part being responsible for getting things this far.

Still, it's all attractive theatre - just a little unfortunate it gives the Murdoch's some real practice before the lawyers get into them properly.

i don't think the committee hearings are an irrelevant sideshow at all - they've done extensive damage to the murdochs so far. chances are, far more than the PI is likely to do too.

 

[Termite Man]

i see you've not been able to explain what your post meant. i'm surprised that YOU can't make head or tail of it - you, after all, should be able to understand what you've submitted.

I've explained it to butchers since he actually engaged with me rather than making snide comments for cheap point scoring like you. Dickhead.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've explained it to butchers since he actually engaged with me rather than making snide comments for cheap point scoring like you. Dickhead.

i'm by no means surprised to see you admit your irrationality.

 

[Termite Man]

i'm by no means surprised to see you admit your irrationality.

yeah? Maybe you will admit to being a twat but I doubt that will happen.

 

[London_Calling]

i don't think the committee hearings are an irrelevant sideshow at all - they've done extensive damage to the murdochs so far. chances are, far more than the PI is likely to do too.

LOL. Sure.

 

[Pickman's model]

yeah? Maybe you will admit to being a twat but I doubt that will happen.

your scepticism does you credit.

 

[Termite Man]

your scepticism does you credit.

that made me laugh

 

[butchersapron]

Next one

A News of the World reporter at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal is taking the defunct tabloid's publishers to an employment tribunal, claiming he was a whistleblower.

Neville Thurlbeck, the paper's former chief reporter, is claiming that he was unfairly dismissed by Rupert Murdoch's News Interrnational. There is scheduled to be a preliminary employment tribunal hearing in east London this Friday. It has only just come to light that Thurlbeck – who had been behind a string of high-profile exclusives at the News of the World – had been fired by the company.

 

[Dan U]

Just heard on radio another journalist has done the same, missed is name but wasn't Neville

Also, and this is quite funny really, Kelvin Mackenzie has found out he was hacked and is now OMG about it after previously dismissing it out of hand.

On phone atm so apologies for lack of links

 

[Santino]

Ian Edmondson

 

[Bakunin]

And just when you thought it couldn't get any better:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/28/news-of-world-paid-rivals

 

[teqniq]

Good article by Nick Cohen in todays's Graun/Observer:

....There is just one proper subject for a public inquiry: the cashless corruption Rupert Murdoch perfected. He did not behave like a common criminal. Instead of giving the ruling party money to spend on political propaganda and demanding business favours in return, Murdoch instructed his editors to provide propaganda free of charge. No money changed hands. But the briber still received business favours and the bribed politicians still got puff pieces. Now the hacking racket has been exposed, we need an inquiry to ask if the law should make it an offence for media conglomerates to use threats and inducements to enrich themselves.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...uiry-rupert-murdoch-cameron#start-of-comments

The first comment is worth a read too.

 

[killer b]

it is indeed... first i've heard of that allegation so i'll take it with a pinch of salt for now, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if leveson was a corrupt fuck.

 

[killer b]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/reports/article6911108.ece

 

[killer b]

initial reading suggests things aren't quite what the comment suggests, so i'll file under bullshit for now...

 

[teqniq]

@ killer b Thanks for digging that out. Maybe bullshit yes but if as the commenter alleges Levenson attended dinner parties hosted by Murdoch then this possibly implies conflict of interest?

 

[killer b]

he declared the dinner parties when he was appointed iirc.

i think it was pointed out at the time that you'd find it difficult to appoint someone to lead such an enquiry who hadn't had some sort of connection to murdoch's various interests, such is his pervasiveness in british public life.

 

[killer b]

(not to let leveson off the hook mind - i'm not expecting great things from the enquiry)

 

[teqniq]

Ah ok thanks. I too have no great expectations of this enquiry unfortunately.

 

[two sheds]

i think it was pointed out at the time that you'd find it difficult to appoint someone to lead such an enquiry who hadn't had some sort of connection to murdoch's various interests, such is his pervasiveness in british public life.

well yes, but that's almost the point of the whole exercise of having an enquiry. 'Yes I accepted bribes from Murdoch but i'm shouldn't be barred from running an enquiry because everyone else was doing it'.

 

[laptop]

[Solicitor] Mark Lewis said: "When the final tally takes place, we will see thousands of claims and more than one paper."

He added that, as the number of claimants grows, estimates that Murdoch's company would need at least £100m to settle such claims looks like "a serious underestimate".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/05/phone-hacking-shaun-russell-suing

editing

content

 

[Badgers]

Sara Payne and Shaun Russell sue News International

I had not seen this.

 

[Dan U]

Sara Payne and Shaun Russell sue News International

I had not seen this.

Paul Dadge is also suing, he was a 7/7 'hero' whose photo was splashed over the worlds media.

wtf did they hope to find? that he was a secret rohypnobummer and then they could expose him or something.

and the Sara Payne thing is like the perfect trap, here have this mobile phone, we'll pay for it...

scum

 

[butchersapron]

Onto The People

David Brown said journalists on the People regularly targeted celebrities, usually to try to discover their latest partners.

He wrote in a witness statement leaked to Sky News: "A number of the methods used to pry into individuals' lives were illegal and I have little doubt that if these people knew they had been spied upon, they would take legal action for breach of their right to privacy."

 

[butchersapron]

Marvelous stuff:
Met loses diary that may have proven former chief's links to Rupert Murdoch

Scotland Yard has lost crucial documents which would have disclosed whether the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens, frequently met senior News of the World executives while he was in office, including an editor at the tabloid who is alleged to have been involved in the illegal hacking of emails.


The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) confirmed to The Independent that it is currently investigating the missing diaries of the former Commissioner.

In response to a Freedom of Information request made by Ian Hurst, a former British Army intelligence officer who was involved in running IRA informers in Northern Ireland, the Met said that its officers had been "unable to locate the diary of Lord Stevens and cannot therefore answer your questions in relation to him"

 

[laptop]

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has accepted £60,000 in damages over the News of the World phone-hacking case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15215506

Cheap at the price...

 

[laptop]

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to parse this sentence from yesterday:

Macpherson's spokesman declined to comment on Ms Field and Mr Lewis's version of events, with one exception: "Elle has not at any time sought or received any settlement, in any form, from News International (or any other related company, entity or individual). Nor are there any claims, discussions or other activities outstanding in relation to the issue."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...anager-sacked-by-elle-macpherson-2366150.html

Macpherson sacked Field after material from their phone contact appeared in NotW. Macpherson has not sued. Field is suing, despite it likely not being her phone (unclear wny not). Indy article loudly hinting at payoff.

So are Macpherson's lawyers saying:

• She sought and/or received compensation that was not "a settlement"; or
• Compensation went, unsolicited by her, to a third party; or
• The unvarnished truth; or
• An outright lie?

 

[theCIA]

i'll just leave this right here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/10/campaign-grows-to-oust-murdoch

 

[killer b]

Marvelous stuff:
Met loses diary that may have proven former chief's links to Rupert Murdoch

they've found it now, apparently...

Just been told that apparently the Met have found the "lost" appointments diary of lord stevens 2000-2005.

 

[two sheds]

The number of victims just keeps increasing:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/11/phone-hacking-glenn-mulcaire-persecution

Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire wants 'persecution' by victims to stop

Private investigator at the centre of News of the World scandal believes victims have nothing to gain from suing him