new press laws not needed

16 May 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009
Oh for Gods sake
We all know she's guilty we all know Darth Murdoch and Luke are guilty any reasonable rational person looking at the evidence thus far knows that they're all morally bankrupt,we all know that they'll get away with a slap on the wrist and a short period of closer scrutiny ... but we are a nation in thrall to wealth and the power it bestows and probably don't deserve any better

Like every one else in this country they are of coarse Innocent, until proven guilty. I would have thought you above all would not condone this kind of trial by media malarkey.
I firmly believe that people should expect to be treated as they treat others,so .... fuck them they are guilty hang them all now

18 May 2012

Quote by I
nasty habit of ending up making the police look even more corrupt and inept than they actually are

Quote by HnS then
Star,
well if thats your opinion of the Met, bow to your greater knowledge of your local force.

well HNS it seems that almost on a daily basis the met are indeed inept and corrupt and certainly incompetent :doh:
read the whole story and if the met can so easily get things wrong like this, i pity them trying to get a conviction in the case of a very clever high powered lady in Rebekah Brooks.

so yes HNS, maybe not a greater knowledge of the met, but it does not take a genuis to work out how useless they are. :thumbup:
" Simon Foy, head of the Met's Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said: “It is a matter of deep regret Sam Hallam lost his liberty due to what has subsequently been found to be an unsafe conviction ". rotflmao

unsafe convictions by the police? never.
BAKEWELL TART MURDER
THE BIRMINGHAM SIX
THE BRIDGEWATER THREE
SEAN HODGSON
Barry Michael George, remember this guy that was hounded by the met?
and a million more cases as well.
i am sure HNS that if you gave me your local force i am sure i could find cases just as alarming as these from your local force. sometimes they will go to any lengths to gain a conviction, even with holding vital evidence. Ms brooks lawyers will make mincemeat of them i think.

19 May 2012

I suspect that should the Met choose to apply themselves they'll find it quite easy to build a case .....Ms Brookes,Darth Murdoch et al have made one crucial mistake,they believe that they are/were untouchable

12 Jun 2012

i think some thing is needed
watching brown looking so uncomfortable and then lying like a flounder at the inquiry yesterday
then the pot calling the kettle black was as funny as fook when he accused Murdoch of lying i nearly fell of me chair :shock:

12 Jun 2012

Looking back at the original post which I do agree with as in, plenty of laws to apply to all of this, the question being 'Why hasn't somebody applied them?' the answer now seems to be:
Nobody applied the laws because the whole lot of them would be prosecuted, Met Police, Government, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown as well as the various media organisations.

24 Jul 2012

Quote by Robert400andKay
Looking back at the original post which I do agree with as in, plenty of laws to apply to all of this, the question being 'Why hasn't somebody applied them?'....

Rob,
As part of Operation Weeting :
- Rebekah Brooks,
- Andy Coulson,
- former News of the World managing director Stuart Kuttner,
- former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck,
- assistant editor Ian Edmonson,
- ex-news editor Greg Miskiw,
- former assitant news editor James Weatherup,
- and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire
are to be charged following an investigation into phone hacking at News International and in addition to Mrs Brooks, her husband and several of Mrs Brooks staff who have already been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Operation Weeting continues, as do the parallel investigations – Operation Elveden – into alleged corrupt payments to officials, and Operation Tuleta, which focuses on allegations of computer hacking and privacy infringement.
Only investigations and some charges so far, so lets see if these translate into convictions (or not)

24 Jul 2012

Quote by Robert400andKay
Looking back at the original post which I do agree with as in, plenty of laws to apply to all of this, the question being 'Why hasn't somebody applied them?'....

In addition Sue Akers, Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) of the Metropolitan Police and leading Operation Weeting (the phone-hacking element of the police inquiry) yesterday testified to the Leveson inquiry that they are investigating alleged corrupt payments by journalists to prison officers in return for stories.
- one officer allegedly received nearly £35,000 from Trinity Mirror, News International and Express Newspapers in a 14-month period to June last year, with additional payments since.
- the other allegedly received more than £14,000 from Trinity Mirror between February 2006 and January 2012.
She told Lord Justice Leveson, "It's our assessment that there are reasonable grounds to suspect offences have been committed and that the majority of these stories reveal very limited material of genuine public interest."
These 2 form part of the 40 arrests so far as part of Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to officials.
Therre's hope yet, Rob

12 Dec 2012

News International revealed in severance pay, understood to be for its former boss Rebekah Brooks.
Mrs Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International because of phone-hacking allegations at the now-closed News of the World newspaper, but that figure included a "compensation for loss of office" payment.
Nice money if you can get it
:sad:

13 Dec 2012

Quote by HnS
News International revealed in severance pay, understood to be for its former boss Rebekah Brooks.
Mrs Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International because of phone-hacking allegations at the now-closed News of the World newspaper, but that figure included a "compensation for loss of office" payment.
Nice money if you can get it
:sad:

IF you was placed in that same situation HnS are you seriously telling me you would not take the money and run to the hills?
Allegations I am glad you used that word as she is still not guilty of anything...yet. She has been given a nice little nest egg for what was a hugely important role in the biggest selling newspaper this country has had for 50 years. Why should she not have received anything?
As you rightly have pointed out she did indeed resign but I think that was a ploy to try and divert attention away from the newspaper. Mr Murdoch obviously thought she was worth the pay off, and who are we to argue against that I ask? Did you pay the money to her? Nope Mr Murdoch did in some form or another as it was purely his decision, and I feel the right one.

14 Dec 2012

Quote by HnS
News International revealed in severance pay, understood to be for its former boss Rebekah Brooks.
Mrs Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International because of phone-hacking allegations at the now-closed News of the World newspaper, but that figure included a "compensation for loss of office" payment.
Nice money if you can get it
:sad:

Don't be coy H .... we all know that is the price of keeping Darth Murdoch off the charge sheet , I have no doubt that there are bonuses available depending on whether time is served and how much time is served ... lets be fair I'd do couple of years for those wages

15 Dec 2012

11 mill for silence, cheap at half the price.

15 Dec 2012

Quote by Ben_Minx
11 mill for silence, cheap at half the price.

Silence? What you talking about?
Are you possibly saying that The News of the World was using underhand tactics to boost stories, and Murdoch has paid her this amount of money for her silence on that? So then she is going to commit perjury in court, when she appears in the dock?
Got any facts or evidence if that is what you are implying? No thought not. rolleyes

In fact I shall be as bold as to use another one of these. rolleyes

15 Dec 2012

Quote by Staggerlee_BB
News International revealed in severance pay, understood to be for its former boss Rebekah Brooks.
Mrs Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International because of phone-hacking allegations at the now-closed News of the World newspaper, but that figure included a "compensation for loss of office" payment.
Nice money if you can get it
:sad:

Don't be coy H .... we all know that is the price of keeping Darth Murdoch off the charge sheet , I have no doubt that there are bonuses available depending on whether time is served and how much time is served ... lets be fair I'd do couple of years for those wages
coy ?
moi ?
blink

Sure that I've also read this week that Darth Murdoch's organisation is also paying her legal bills as well
:small-print:

15 Dec 2012

Well I think the disgraceful behaviour of the NOTW and others is firmly established.
My direct experience of corporate scandals and crisis management and is that some bugger falls on their sword and is often generously rewarded for doing so.
This seems to me to be the case here.
I am surprised a man of your intelligence cannot see that inevitable scenario.

Quote by starlightcouple
11 mill for silence, cheap at half the price.

Silence? What you talking about?
Are you possibly saying that The News of the World was using underhand tactics to boost stories, and Murdoch has paid her this amount of money for her silence on that? So then she is going to commit perjury in court, when she appears in the dock?
Got any facts or evidence if that is what you are implying? No thought not. rolleyes

In fact I shall be as bold as to use another one of these. rolleyes

Are you sure?