The Judge: The deletion of 3.5 million emails at the News of the World in 2010 ” not the most successful damage limitation exercise ever mounted.” Quite.
Day 118: Jurors should consider how News International’s executives behaved after the arrest of the News of the World’s royal editor Clive Goodman for phone hacking, the Old Bailey heard today.
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The judge gives a damning indictment against Clive Goodman, the royal reporter, accusing him of lying over the extent of his phone hacking. He couldn’t have possibly forgotten he had hacked into Prince William, Prince Harry and Kate Middleton’s phones! damning indeed!
Day 117, Part 2: Clive Goodman, the “rogue reporter” blamed by News International for phone hacking at the News of the World, lied when he gave evidence at the current phone hacking trial, the judge suggested today.
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More embarrassing revelations from Clive Goodman
Day 105, Part 2: Police security plans for Princess Diana’s former home were found at the home of a News of the World reporter when he was arrested by detectives for phone hacking, the Old Bailey heard today.
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More insight into Andy Coulson from Clive Goodman over a Royal trip with Prince Charles.
Day 104: Andy Coulson kicked a desk when he found out his royal editor did not want to accompany Prince Charles on a visit to the United States, the Old Bailey was told today.
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Ah, so it is all Clive Goodman’s fault for not telling Andy Coulson about how much phone hacking he did! At least that’s what Coulson’s legal team want the court to know.
Day 103, Part 1:
Former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman is not owning up to the full scale of his phone hacking at the paper, Andy Coulson’s legal team claimed at the phone hacking trial today.
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Amazing how helpful Andy Coulson was to the Met police when they came to arrest Clive Goodman for phone hacking .Not!
Day 94, Part 1: The editor of the News of the World did not “volunteer” any information to the Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking, he told the Old Bailey today.
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Fascinating that Andy Coulson can’t remember anything Dan Evans told him about phone hacking when he interviewed him for a job and never even suspected that convicted hacker Clive Goodman had employed Glenn Mulcaire, who admitted hacking voicemails.
Day 93, Part 1: Andy Coulson did not knowingly recruit a skilled phone-hacker to the News of the World, he told the Old Bailey today. Mr Coulson also denied Dan Evans played him a voicemail recording of a message he had intercepted from the phone of the actress Sienna Miller.
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The kind side of Stuart Kuttner helping Goodman as he reels from the shock of phone hacking and his arrest
Day 87: A senior News of the World executive lent his personal support to a reporter arrested for phone hacking because he and News International liked to help senior staff in difficulty, he told the Old Bailey today.
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Exaggeration can be a journalist’s foible.
Day 73, Part 2:
At the phone hacking trial today Clive Goodman admitted exaggerating the importance of his stories, but denied being “over-dramatic” or “florid” in his dealings with the News of the World executives.
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So Clive Goodman has now implicated THREE News International executives for involvement in phone hacking and the Crown Prosecution Service for not wanting to prosecute them. Extraordinary claim against Coulson that he could arrange for Goodman not to go to prison. Goodman was later jailed for four months. Wow!
Day 72: The Crown Prosecution Service had evidence incriminating three News of the World executives in phone hacking seven years ago – but made a decision to limit the case to the paper’s royal editor Clive Goodman, he claimed at the Old Bailey today.
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