This part of story hasn't caught the public's interest as much as hacking the phones of dead kids and servicemen's families (of course) but is actually more damning.These scumbags are involved in intimidation, perverting the course of justice and probably murder and it definitely goes right to the top.QuoteScotland Yard chose not to mount a formal inquiry. Instead a senior press officer contacted Brooks to ask for an explanation. She is understood to have told them they were investigating a report that Cook was having an affair with another officer, Jacqui Hames, the presenter of BBC Crimewatch. Yard sources say they rejected this explanation, because Cook had been married to Hames for some years; the couple had two children, then aged two and five; and they had previously appeared together as a married couple in published stories."The story was complete rubbish," according to one source.http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooksFucking filth.
Scotland Yard chose not to mount a formal inquiry. Instead a senior press officer contacted Brooks to ask for an explanation. She is understood to have told them they were investigating a report that Cook was having an affair with another officer, Jacqui Hames, the presenter of BBC Crimewatch. Yard sources say they rejected this explanation, because Cook had been married to Hames for some years; the couple had two children, then aged two and five; and they had previously appeared together as a married couple in published stories."The story was complete rubbish," according to one source.
O2 have pulled their advertising. Apparently Boots are about to.
Meanwhile......http://www.crownoffice.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/10/03113905
Ha ha. Yeah I know!This is fascinating. How Brooks and even Murdoch can be prosecuted:http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andreas-whittam-smith/andreas-whittam-smith-if-we-dont-act-now-worse-will-follow-2307923.html
...and once the dust has settled (might be a while yet), they launch a Sunday version of the Sun?
andy coulson to be arrested tomorrow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/andy-coulson-arrest-phone-hacking
According to C4 Brooks offered her resignation last night but it was turned down by the News Corp board:http://www.channel4.com/news/news-of-the-world-to-close