Industrial scale hacking of the Royals laid bare by Clive Goodman -even on Christmas Day. No wonder Andy Coulson doesn’t want to know!
Day 103, Part 2:
Current members of the Royal Family including Prince William were hacked almost every day by the News of the World, the phone hacking trial heard yesterday.
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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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Prosecutor doesn’t buy Brooks’ claim that she had no idea big cash payments for military exclusives were coming from well connected Ministry of Defence official. Hardly from ” someone in a pub in Aldershot” says Andrew Edis.
Day 102, Part 2: Rebekah Brooks would have had to have been a “complete fool” not to suspect that a Sun journalist’s “No 1 military contact” was a public official, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the phone hacking trial yesterday.
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Savage criticism of Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie attempts to hide evidence from the police. Prosecutor Andrew Edis in his closing address says she was trying to keep her job as the hacking inquiry escalated.
Day 102, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks was trying to save her job when she hatched a plan to hide her notebooks from detectives at the peak of the phone hacking scandal in July 2011, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Rather interesting parallel by Andrew Edis, prosecuting counsel, when he says Coulson and Brooks defence amounts to spending three days at a murder scene and then telling the police they didn’t know there was a body there.
Day 101, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were talented, clever, ambitious individuals who told themselves it didn’t matter whether or not they were breaking the law because they “just wanted the story”, prosecuting counsel Andrew Edis, QC, told the phone hacking trial today.
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Another person who can’t remember and has to be reminded by lawyers that she paid out money to sources. Amazing lack of recall among Murdoch’s people.
Day 99, Part 2: Andy Coulson’s former PA printed out emails stored in his drafts folder days before one of his reporters, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to phone hacking, a court heard yesterday.
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Another example of Andy Coulson knowing nothing about stories coming from phone hacking.
Day 99: Andy Coulson today denied knowing that a spoiler story in the News of the World about John Prescott’s affair with his diary secretary had come from phone hacking.
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So Dan Evans was wrong when he said he played the hacked voicemail from Sienna Miller’s phone says Andy Coulson who can’t remember anything else that happened.
Day 98, Part 1: Andy Coulson today denied hearing a voicemail that had been hacked from Sienna Miller’s phone by one of his reporters, Dan Evans.
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Wow !Andy Coulson gets so much money he can’t even remember his salary at the News of the World but he did walk out with £600,000 before working for David Cameron. Wonder whether his memory of life in Downing Street will be as lucid as his time editing Murdoch’s paper. He certainly won’t be writing a diary like Alastair Campbell!
Day 96: Andy Coulson left the News of the World with a £600,000 pay-off, but with little memory of what turned out to be one of its most important stories: the disappearance of Milly Dowler, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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So love cheat Andy Coulson says he knows he made a mistake exposing the David Blunkett affair by hacking his love messages – while engaged in an affair himself with Rebekah Brooks. But he can’t bring himself to admit he is a hypocrite.
Day 95, Part 1: Andy Coulson today told the hacking trial he was aware of the “irony” of his newspaper exposing an affair by a senior politician while having a long-running extra-marital affair himself.
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