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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

8 People have been told there are to be charged relating to phone hacking. This includes Former News Of The World Executive Rebekah Brooks who will be charged with hacking Milly Dowler's phone messages. Former Downing Street adviser Andy Coulson is also going to be charged. Hopefully this will end the misery many have gone through.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18961228

ColinB · Guest

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

The problem with these charges.

1. Will it be a fair trial?

2. It be a media circus?

53 charges altogether. So what evidence have they got. There is a saying - " You scratch my back" - If you don't - " Then I will drag you down with me"

These trials could not happen for a few months or even a year. Regarding David Camerons judgement about Andy Coulson will be bought up again..

ColinB · Guest

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Each of the eight, with the exception of Glenn Mulcaire, will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority, from 3 October 2000 to 9 August 2006.

In addition, each will face a number of further charges of conspiracy unlawfully to intercept communications, as follows:

Rebekah Brooks will face two additional charges:

• the first relates to the voicemails of the late Milly Dowler
• the second to the voicemails of Andrew Gilchrist

Andrew Coulson will face four additional charges, relating to the following victims:

• Milly Dowler
• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke, and
• Calum Best

Stuart Kuttner will face two additional charges, relating to:

• Milly Dowler and
• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

Greg Miskiw will face nine further charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:

• Milly Dowler
• Sven-Goran Eriksson
• Abigail Titmuss and John Leslie
• Andrew Gilchrist
• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
• Delia Smith
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke
• Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller, and
• Wayne Rooney

Ian Edmondson will face a further eleven charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:

• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke
• Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller
• Mark Oaten
• Wayne Rooney
• Calum Best
• the Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills
• the Rt Hon Lord Prescott
• Professor John Tulloch
• Lord Frederick Windsor
• Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

Neville Thurlbeck will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:

• Milly Dowler
• Sven-Goran Eriksson
• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
• Mark Oaten
• the Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills

James Weatherup will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:

• the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke
• Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
• Wayne Rooney
• the Rt Hon Lord Prescott
• Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

For legal reasons, Glenn Mulcaire does not face the first of these charges. However, he will face four charges, relating to:

• Milly Dowler
• Andrew Gilchrist
• Delia Smith, and
• the Rt Hon Charles Clarke

ColinB · Guest

Mark, you have too much time on your hands if you can dig up all this stuff. Get a hobby or something.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

In answer to your original question Mark - no this will not end anything or provide any kind of closure for the victims

The wonderful British press will carry on exactly as they did before because they think they are above the law - and they can easily replace a few corrupt journalists who might end up doing 'time' although I think even that is unlikely - plenty of other corrupt journalists out there waiting to fill the gap once all this has blown over

The people involved in this are not even sorry - only sorry that they got caught as Charlotte Church pointed out - they're the scum of the earth Mad

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ColinB · Guest

It's interesting to see how the real criminal - Murdoch himself - has managed to extricate himself from the whole debacle. Who knows who would have been dragged into it had his head have been put on the block?