Andrew Edis vigorously pursues his case that there has been a cover up at the top of the News of the World
Day 101, Part 2: It seemed the “first instinct” of News of the World executives after the arrest of phone hacking royal editor Clive Goodman and private detective Glenn Mulcaire was to launch a cover-up, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
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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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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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Coulson says he didn’t know about Mulcaire until he was arrested and never took much of an interest in private investigators! The love cheat admits he caused pain to his wife with his “on off” affair with Rebekah Brooks!
Day 90, Part 2:
Andy Coulson had a vague memory of Glenn Mulcaire’s company being mentioned at the News of the World, but thought it was something to do with “finding people” or “surveillance,” he told the phone hacking trial today.
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Andy Coulson begins his defence by telling how reporters jealously guarded their contacts amid clashes over egos and rivalry across the newsroom
Day 90, Part 1:
The News of the World had a culture of “secrecy” and “intrigue” where reporters closely guarded their contacts, Andy Coulson told the phone hacking trial today.
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Sarah Payne’s mum testifies for ” sweet natured” Rebekah Brooks and ” gentleman” Stuart Kuttner.
Fact: Her details were discovered by Operation Weeting on hacker Glenn Mulcaire’s files.
Day 89, Part 2:
The mother of murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne today paid tribute to two defendants at the phone hacking trial.
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Revealed : The Pizza in Pizzagate
Day 85, Part 2:
The pizza at the centre of an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie was probably a Large Italian Supreme with an extra portion of garlic bread, the Old Bailey heard today.
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The story of Charlie Brooks’ missing bag stowed under a News International desk
Day 84, Part 2:
A News International administration assistant helped place a bag belonging to Charlie Brooks into two bin bags and stowed the property under her desk at the newspaper group’s HQ for hours while Mr Brooks’s wife Rebekah was under arrest, a court heard today.
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A total denial from Mark Hanna, NI’s security chief, that he was part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks from the police investigation into phone hacking. He also says he has never heard of President Nixon’s Watergate. Really! Where’s this man been living all this time.
Day 83:
News International’s head of security today denied being part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks and the newspaper group from the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into phone hacking.
Mark Hanna, suspended on full pay by the newspaper company when he was charged in May 2012, said he would not commit a crime for anyone.
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