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Phone Hacking Trial: Close relative of Jude Law secretly paid by NOTW for information, trial told – Martin Hickman

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This remarkable evidence should give people an insight into how some tabloid newspapers obtain information.

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Jude LawDay 46:  A close relative of Jude Law was secretly paid by the News of the World for supplying information about the actor, Andy Coulson’s lawyer suggested today. At the Old Bailey, Timothy Langdale QC wrote down and passed to the Hollywood star the names of three associates he suggested had been feeding information to the Sunday tabloid at the time his phone was being hacked.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Edmondson, Coulson and the explanation for “do his phone” – Martin Hickman

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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!

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media_andy_coulson_2Day 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Palace phone directories found at home of NOTW royal editor, trial hears – Martin Hickman

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It is absolutely extraordinary that the Met police should withhold for SIX years from the Royal Household that they had found highly sensitive directories giving the private telephone numbers of the Royal Family at NoTW Royal editor Clive Goodman’s home. It shows in the early stages the Met Police seemed reluctant to investigate the phone hacking scandal.

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Clive GoodmanDay 27:  Police did not tell a senior member of the Royal Household that a large number of Buckingham Palace phone directories had been found at the home of the News of the World’s royal editor for six years, the hacking trial heard yesterday.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Coulson offered Goodman “every possible support” after arrest – Martin Hickman

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This secretly taped call between Andy Coulson and Clive Goodman – later to be jailed for phone hacking – reveals Coulson was prepared to back him to the end. It also reveals that as early as 2006 the NotW should have realised the game would be up because the Met police had extensive evidence of phone hacking from investigator Glenn Mulcaire’s files.

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Andy CoulsonDay 21 (Part 1):  Andy Coulson offered Clive Goodman “every possible support” after he was arrested for hacking into the voicemails of aides to the Royal family, the phone hacking trial heard today. Mr Coulson, then News of the World editor sympathised with Mr Goodman in  phone call on 8 November 2006. The call was  secretly taped by Mr Goodman.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Reporter warned NoW management they would “all end up in jail” if payments to sensitive sources were traced – Martin Hickman

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A really damning comment from the News of the World’s former Royal Editor about payments by the paper released in a memo to the court.

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Clive-GoodmanDay 19:  A News of the World reporter warned the paper’s management that he and its editors could go to jail if police traced cash payments to sensitive sources, the hacking trial heard today.  Clive Goodman, the paper’s royal editor, made the warning about two of the cash contacts who were “in uniform.”

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Phone Hacking Trial: Edmondson extended Mulcaire’s contract, after initially stopping payments – Martin Hickman

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This is extraordinary given the earlier story that Edmondson had said he had wanted to end the arrangement with Glenn Mulcaire and now is happy paying him. See also Peter Jukes for the documents released showing the payments and Edmondson’s dismissal letter.

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EdmondsonDay 18 (Part 2):   The News of the World’s news editor, Ian Edmondson, extended its £100,000-year-contract with the private detective Glenn Mulcaire after initially ordering the payments to be stopped, the hacking trial heard yesterday.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Ian Edmondson halted payments to Glenn Mulcaire a year before he was arrested, Old Bailey hears – Martin Hickman

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This story reveals that Ian Edmondson, the News of the World news editor,accused alongside Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, of conspiring to hack phone messages, moved to cancel a £2,000 a week retainer to phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, as part of a cost saving exercise. The decision was taken 18 months before Mulcaire was arrested. An intervention by his defence lawyer makes it clear that he will be highlighting his attempts to sack Mulcaire to defend himself against the charges.

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????????????????Day 18: News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson halted payments to the paper’s phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire a year before he was arrested, the hacking trial heard today. Mr Edmondson is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of conspiring with Mulcaire and other former colleagues to intercept voicemail messages between 2000 and 2006.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Murdoch executive packed up phone hacking suspect’s belongings on day of his arrest, court hears – Martin Hickman

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This extraordinary story of a successful attempt to remove evidence from the News of the World’s office after James Weatherup, a news editor, who has already pleaded guilty of plotting phone hacking was arrested. No wonder the judge asked the witness,Frances Carmen, a former newsdesk secretary, to repeat the claims. Another story of an alleged cover up in the Murdoch empire

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James WeatherupDay 17:  One of Rupert Murdoch’s senior executives packed up the belongings of a News of the World reporter suspected of phone hacking and sent them away from the newspaper’s offices in a taxi, the Old Bailey heard today. Paul Nicholas, Deputy Managing Editor of the News of the World, acted on the day in April 2011 that former news editor James Weatherup was arrested at his home in Essex, Frances Carmen, the paper’s newsdesk secretary, told the jury.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Transcript and recording of Prince Harry’s voicemail found at royal editor’s home, jury told – Martin Hickman

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The scale of hacking by the News of the World into Prince Harry’s voicemail and his Royal aides is revealed after the police seized transcripts and recordings from the then Royal Editor Clive Goodman’s home. Another example of News International story searching at the time.

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harryDay 13 (cont):   The News of the World’s royal editor Clive Goodman had a verbatim transcript of a voicemail left by Prince Harry, the hacking trial was told today. The document and a poor-quality recording of the mobile phone message were seized by police from Mr Goodman’s home in south-west London in 2006, the court was told.

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Phone Hacking Trial: NoW paid glamour model up to £10,000 for information on celebrities, court hears – Martin Hickman

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More inside info on how the News of the World worked is revealed in today’s hearing – with cash payments to a supermodel running to thousands of pounds for inside gossip and info about celebs. She is a one time girlfriend of Calum Best, son of footballer George Best, whose mobile phone number is again on Glenn Mulclaire’s phone hacking evaluation list.

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Lorna HoganDay 13:  A glamour model was paid thousands of pounds a time by the News of the World to pass on information about celebrities she met in London nightclubs, the phone hacking trial heard today. Lorna Hogan, who had a two-month relationship with the reality TV star Calum Best, agreed she received sums of up to £10,000 for supplying the Sunday tabloid with ”gossip and information” about high-profile people.

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