villaajax Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 What a farce! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I actually feel sick. Yeah, it's not good, is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) Edit. Edited June 25, 2014 by Avfc96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted June 24, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2014 Just for the record: REMINDER There is a strict liability contempt rule for pending verdicts: criticism of either defendants, or the prosecution, not recommended That's from one of the journalists covering the trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 I guess Cameron makes a profound apology some time later today, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) I guess the Suns headline tomorrow will be "it was the sun what won it". Edited June 24, 2014 by Seat68 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 So that really was just embarassing porn and the first draft of a poor novel on that hidden and secretly retrieved laptop we all clearly saw the cctv pictures of? Well I never, who'd have thunked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 She must have been laughing as the verdict was read out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I guess Cameron makes a profound apology some time later today, then? Apparently so! Every cloud .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) So we have media phone hacking, government and media censorship and a dodgy legal system. Egypt aint all that too dissimilar to us. But we should all vote UKIP, it's the Romanian's fault, I read it in the paper. Edited June 24, 2014 by Kingfisher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 So we have media phone hacking, government and media censorship and a dodgy legal system. Egypt aint all that too dissimilar to us. But we should all vote UKIP, it's the Romanian's fault, I read it in the paper. Which particular Romanian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Louise Mensch former Conservative MP tweets: Coulson was the finest communications director the Tories had in the modern age. I don't believe him guilty, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Louise Mensch former Conservative MP tweets: Coulson was the finest communications director the Tories had in the modern age. I don't believe him guilty, either. Superb Wensch. He's guilty alright. He's just not the only guilty party, and the bigger fish seems to have, unsurprisingly, evaded the hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Louise Mensch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted June 24, 2014 Moderator Share Posted June 24, 2014 Louise Mensch former Conservative MP tweets: Coulson was the finest communications director the Tories had in the modern age. I don't believe him guilty, either. She perhaps should consider that Cameron clearly doesn't agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I followed the trial and I think justice has been done. The difference between the two was the tape of Blunkett being hacked. It was basically a bloody knife with fingerprints on it. Everything else from the hiring of those who had already pleaded guilty and their wages being signed off all lead clearly back to Coulson. I wonder if he will now have a trip north of the border to face more charges there. The jury decided the evidence against Brooks could not prove her guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. It lacked the killer piece of evidence (most of it disappeared without explanation). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 It just seems inconceivable that either as a colleague about to take over his old job, or as his lover that she would not have known that hacking was custom and practice. I suspect that the verdict followed the usual outcome when a man and a woman are accused of the same crime - the woman gets the benefit of the doubt and the man goes down (and never the other way round). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 So we have media phone hacking, government and media censorship and a dodgy legal system. Egypt aint all that too dissimilar to us. But we should all vote UKIP, it's the Romanian's fault, I read it in the paper. Which particular Romanian? Both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Inconceivable isn't evidence though. The police did not recover any of her notebooks, several electronic devices used in her home went missing, chunks of emails were deleted by staff and none of the people who pleaded guilty were hired by her. I would have loved to have seen Coulson's face though when he learned they did recover the tape of Blunkett from a lawyer's safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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