DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I've just received my copy of Untouchables, bit of a brick of a book, and disappointingly there is no index. Could have done with better picture reproduction as well, and perhaps a zippier editor. But no matter.
An interesting titbit mentioned in the new introduction, which draws one's attention to Bob Quick's Leveson evidence.*
Here's paragraph 14 from his written statement:
Sounds intriguing!
Here's Mr Jay making a somewhat oblique reference to it whilst examining Quick on 7 March (pp90-91 of the morning transcript):
With words like "conspiring", "misleading" and "influence the jury" one might reasonably infer that the freelance journalists in question were in some way invested in limiting Jonathan Rees' and Southern Investigations' exposure to detailed criminal investigation with regards the Daniel Morgan murder, right?
How queer, then, that the journalists in question were in fact the ones digging the deepest to uncover links between corrupt police officers, bung-happy hacks and bent private eyes!
And how queer that the Guardian - using its advance sight of the Quick evidence under core participant status - moved so (if I may) quickly to have the paper's name redacted, and the names of Flynn and Gillard struck out from the public record.
Could it be that Rusbridger's wobbly tummy over investigating the police in 2000 (he sacked Flynn and Gillard following a letter from Quick's boss Andy Hayman complaining about their critical coverage of the Met's unaccountable 'anti-corruption' cops and their dubious supergrass system, remember) doesn't fit too well with the Grauniad narrative of being the lone crusader for justice?
* From 1999-2001 Bob Quick was Detective Superintendent (Operations) at CIB3 (the Met's Anti-Corruption Squad, later Anti-Corruption Command), and subsequently its Commander, before being made Chief Constable at Surrey. He worked variously under Andy Hayman, John Yates and Paul Stephenson.
An interesting titbit mentioned in the new introduction, which draws one's attention to Bob Quick's Leveson evidence.*
Here's paragraph 14 from his written statement:
Sounds intriguing!
Here's Mr Jay making a somewhat oblique reference to it whilst examining Quick on 7 March (pp90-91 of the morning transcript):
With words like "conspiring", "misleading" and "influence the jury" one might reasonably infer that the freelance journalists in question were in some way invested in limiting Jonathan Rees' and Southern Investigations' exposure to detailed criminal investigation with regards the Daniel Morgan murder, right?
How queer, then, that the journalists in question were in fact the ones digging the deepest to uncover links between corrupt police officers, bung-happy hacks and bent private eyes!
And how queer that the Guardian - using its advance sight of the Quick evidence under core participant status - moved so (if I may) quickly to have the paper's name redacted, and the names of Flynn and Gillard struck out from the public record.
Could it be that Rusbridger's wobbly tummy over investigating the police in 2000 (he sacked Flynn and Gillard following a letter from Quick's boss Andy Hayman complaining about their critical coverage of the Met's unaccountable 'anti-corruption' cops and their dubious supergrass system, remember) doesn't fit too well with the Grauniad narrative of being the lone crusader for justice?
* From 1999-2001 Bob Quick was Detective Superintendent (Operations) at CIB3 (the Met's Anti-Corruption Squad, later Anti-Corruption Command), and subsequently its Commander, before being made Chief Constable at Surrey. He worked variously under Andy Hayman, John Yates and Paul Stephenson.
