Fascinating that the managing editor can’t exactly remember whether he spoke to phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire who received over £1m from News International.
Day 86, Part 1:
Stuart Kuttner may have spoken on the phone to the News of the World’s phone hacking specialist Glenn Mulcaire, he told the Old Bailey today.
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interesting disclosure from Clive Goodman that Andy Coulson actually authorised payments to hacker and private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. Even more interesting is that he says emails authorising this would not exist now except for a decision to download them himself in 2006.
Day 71: Andy Coulson personally authorised cash payments to the News of the World’s private detective which led to the phones of three royal aides being hacked, a court heard today.
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An extraordinary email exchange between Rebekah Brooks (then Wade) and her ” good friend ” Andy Coulson has been released by the Crown Prosecution Service and published by Peter Jukes.
Exchanged on the day Royal reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire pleaded guilty to phone hacking in the ” rogue reporter ” case in 2006, it reveals an extraordinary plan to leak the fact that Rebekah’s phone and the phone of Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail have been hacked by Mulcaire.
Coulson is cool on the idea while Rebekah, who appears to be paranoid about Guardian Media getting the story, seems pretty jittery. A case of fear and loathing in Fleet Street.
You can read the full short exchange on the Peter Jukes blog.
Rebekah Brooks admits she could trust Andy Coulson with ” any confidence” at time of phone hacking.
Day 64, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were so close at the time of the Milly Dowler story that he could trust her with any confidence, she told the phone hacking trial today.
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Amazing how £92,000 a year is so much small beer – £1000 a week payments not big enough to bring to the attention of the editor.
Day 56, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks did not know that Glenn Mulcaire was on a £92,000-a-year contract with the News of the World, she told the phone hacking trial today. The paper had an annual £30 million editorial budget when she was editor.
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Very interesting that Rebekah Brooks said she had never heard of Glenn Mulcaire during her editorship.
Day 55, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks relied upon the News of the World’s managing editor Stuart Kuttner to oversee the paper’s multi-million pound budget, she told the hacking trial this afternoon.
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Fascinating that Mulcaire accessed Brooks’ and Coulson’s emails. Should learn to spell name properly though.
Day 53, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks asked to chat to her former husband about phone hacking a fortnight before the scandal about the interception of Milly Dowler’s voicemail hit the headlines.
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Remember according to CPS files released at the trial hacker Glenn Mulcaire made £1m from News International over the years. This is some of his work from 11,000 pages of notes.
Day 51: Glenn Mulcaire carried out only a dozen hacks or attempted phone hacks during Rebekah Brooks’s editorship of the News of the World, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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An interesting explanation from Andy Coulson, former News of the World Editor, about what ” do his phone” meant – eg not hack but check Calum Best’s phone because he was boasting about leaks from the News of the World using another reporter’s phone!
Day 29: Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson was discharged from the phone hacking trial on Thursday 12 December. Mr Justice Saunders told the jury a “consensus” of medical evidence suggested he was unfit to participate in the current case.
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This is a breathtaking disclosure of a huge number of hacking calls made not from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire who police discovered had been paid £1m by News International over many years but actually from inside News International HQ.
When one thinks it is alleged that Prince William and Harry’s private secretary was targeted 416 times in nine months and even journalists on the rival Mail on Sunday were receiving hacking calls this appears like an industrial scale enterprise.
Day 24: Hundreds of hacking calls were made from a “private wire” inside News International’s headquarters, the Old Bailey heard today.
Among those whose voicemails were accessed from the “generic” phone link at Wapping in east London were Katie Price, Tessa Jowell, celebrity PR advisor Alan Edwards and three Mail on Sunday journalists – Sebastian Hamilton, Dennis Rice and Laura Collins, the hacking trial was told.
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