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Voice mail hacking scandal goes on

Even while coppers think it is all done and dusted
Thu Dec 16 2010, 13:38

ALTHOUGH THE COPPERS and the Crown Prosecution Service have refused to continue with an inquiry into how many News of the World executives knew about phone tapping, the scandal refuses to go away.

According to the Independant, lawyers for Sienna Miller, who had her voice mail tapped, claim to have found evidence that a senior News of the World executive was aware a private investigator was being paid to hack into her voicemails.

Miller is preparing a civil lawsuit against the News of the World for breach of privacy and harassment.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that there is no new evidence to justify bringing prosecutions against any other journalists from News of the World. Particularly no evidence against the former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who now happens to be the head of communications for student dart board pin-up boy David Cameron.

Miller's legal team says the evidence can be found among the paperwork and other records seized by the police from the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006. In Mulcaire's handwritten notes the news editor of the News of the World, Ian Edmondson, instructed him to intercept Miller's voicemail.

News of the World has implied that Clive Goodman and Mulcaire, who were jailed in January 2007, were rogue reporters acting alone.

Mulcaire's notes for the hacking of the actress's voice mail were marked "Ian" in the top left hand corner, which Miller claims refers to Ian Edmondson.

Edmondson was appointed news editor of the News of the World by Andy Coulson.

Yet for some reason the CPS said that, despite a number of new witnesses coming forward to say that the practice was widespread at the newspaper, there is not enough evidence to support any further criminal prosecutions.

With a civil complaint in the offing, it begins to look like the News of the World and Coulson still might end up named and shamed, although sadly not jailed. µ

 

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Phone Hacking is for real!!!

I have been hearing this story online and some article about it in the newspaper, and I think what the news of the world is doing is out of order and this purely harrasment. I heard that she went to the police about this enquiry and they didn't do fuck all about it, which doesn't surprise me really. Because I know for a fact the british corrupted law enforcement in this country they using most of the BT UK engineers to monitor people phones all round the united kingdom especially based on people who crimes are petty or to catch people who are illegal imigrant and heard they being doing this operation for years. Instead of these fucking police and survillance monitor people who can put people lives at risk instead of petty crime, but no they waste government money and practice corruption by choosing to monitor the wrong type of people and there phones who is no threat to society. It really goes too shows you what Great Britain is coming too, and shows us the public the kind of corruption in the law in the UK we are as a society are abiding by. If you ask me Sienna is not only the Media you have to watch who can tape your conversation on your phone, you also have to watch UK Law enforcement too, because believe me they also doing exactly the same thing too just like the media and they also doing it undercover...Just listen to my wise advice just be very careful what you and Jude say on the phone, and if you and him got anything personal to say to friends and family you speak to them confidential face to face... Because you just can't trust telecommunication nowadays especially when it comes to private and personal conversation.

posted by : Irresistable Girl, 08 January 2011 Complain about this comment
Couple of small problems...

All these new witnesses that came forward ... when the police talked to them they all replied, "No Comment" or words to that effect.

You will notice that the Gaurdian is the only one that is pushing this story, no one else in fleet street , not even the mirrow which you would expect to love to stick the boot in.

You know why?

BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL DONE IT!

They know that if the NOWT goes down for this, they are going to take everyone else with em on this, which is why the rest of the newspaper industry is treating this story with kid gloves.

Also the NOTW has more than enough Sh*t on the rest of them , and the only reason that they have not released is the unspoken agreement betwwen the papers never to go after each others staff, believe me the rest of Fleet street is hoping this goes away otherwise it could open the doors to hell.

posted by : LPF, 16 December 2010 Complain about this comment
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