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Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking
New submitter HarryatRock writes with news that former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and five others have been charged by police for their involvement in intercepting voicemail messages left for a murdered girl. From the article:
"She is charged with conspiring with her 49-year-old husband, personal assistant Cheryl Carter, chauffeur Paul Edwards, security man Daryl Jorsling, and News International head of security Mr Hanna to "conceal material" from police between 6 and 19 July. In a second charge Mrs Brooks and Ms Carter are accused of conspiring to remove seven boxes of material from the News International archive between 6 and 9 July. In a third charge, Mr and Mrs Brooks, Mr Hanna, Mr Edwards and Mr Jorsling are accused of conspiring to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from police officers between 15 and 19 July."
...to avoid anything related to Fox News like the plague
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"She is charged with conspiring with her 49-year-old husband, personal assistant Cheryl Carter, chauffeur Paul Edwards, security man Daryl Jorsling, and News International head of security Mr Hanna to "conceal material" from police between 6 and 19 July. In a second charge Mrs Brooks and Ms Carter are accused of conspiring to remove seven boxes of material from the News International archive between 6 and 9 July. In a third charge, Mr and Mrs Brooks, Mr Hanna, Mr Edwards and Mr Jorsling are accused of conspiring to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from police officers between 15 and 19 July."
For all the people that are being charged, the Murdochs seem quite absent, but anyone without their surname seems to be fair game.
Hopefully someone turns on the Murdochs instead of taking the sword for the family.
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This almost seems like justice is being served. What's the catch?
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if she were an upper class twit like Piers Paul Hugh Montefiore O'Brien Morgan she could be working with the excellent CNN.
Now wait a minute.
I thought it's no longer acceptable to charge anyone with perversion these days.
Doesn't she have a right to her own personal perversion? Who can say she wasn't born a natural justice pervert?
Print media is shrinking fast as newspaper readers instead search the www and advertising moves to Google.
Are we witnessing a suicidal counterattack by non Murdoch media in an attempt to divert attention away from their own transgressions.
I get the feeling that Rebecca's real crime was to promote the David Cameron brand.
"Involvement in intercepting voicemail messages."
Accuracy has never been very important to /., has it?
They were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by withholding evidence from police. There is no charge that they were involved in voicemail hacking (though of course there are plenty of allegations that they were).
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Non-UK sources provide additional details not allowed in the UK media, due to pre-trial laws. The Guardian broke this story, but now scrupulously points out it is limited in what it can report. Comparing to the NYT, the omitted facts seem to be the strange episode of the discarded briefcase in the parking garage. Brooks's husband was caught red-handed when he tried to reclaim it after someone found it in a dumpster.
Anyone know what else the UK press must omit?
It is the attempted coverup they are being charged for, not the crime of phone hacking. That's what "perverting the course of justice" means here in the UK. It's a common law offence that usually carries a prison sentence, which can be up to life.
"I wasn't aware of anyone doing anything wrong."
Then, when given proof that you should have been: "I didn't read it."
Worked for James Murdoch.
She had to be charged to avoid an outcry. Kind of like the Zimmerman/Martin case on this side of the pond, everyone knows they'll be acquitted but we have to go through the formalities to assuage the blogosphere
I really wish the media would stop referring to this as "hacking". It's just listening to the voicemail of people who are too stupid to change the default password, isn't it?
I wish people would stop referring to it as "stealing". It's just taking the stuff of people who are too stupid to lock their doors, isn't it?
It's a more correct use than usual as hacking means "unauthorised access"
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Shes whinning she cant get a fair trial due to all the media attention.
Not getting caught for a long time does not mean you got away. Ask Kadhafi.
lucm, indeed.
Do not reply to people on th'internet who think Fox news is "news".
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Subject pretty much sums it up, wonder what she looked like at 30 :)
A personal assistant and a chauffeur? How much does anyone want to be the personal assistant and chauffeur spend more time in jail?
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
This is ironic because it was the NewsOfTheWorld that caught Lord Jeffrey Archer out and caused him to get done for perverting the course of justice which made him end up in prison. This charge is usually worse than actually doing the crime (which I dont think she's technically done before today). (Though really with the Archer 1987 trial the Judge Mr Justice Caulfield seemed to have been biased against the prostitute calling Archer a liar in court probably because the judge didn't like prostitutes).
If you are going to do anything even remotely illegal, or you even suspect it might be illegal someplace on this planet, then make SURE you have an iron-clad butt-cover.
Because at the end of the day, male criminals will ALWAYS toss you an anchor, will ALWAYS shove you out of the lifeboat, and will ALWAYS stab you in the side to make sure you limp along and bleed for the sharks.
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Whatever may be the story, Rebekah Brooks is attractive woman.
...if he releases x-files on lossless blue ray, with pre-HDTV episodes re-edited for hi-def (i:e: one disk per episode).
Your article is wrong and misleading.
Charges laid are for "Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice".
Nothing to do with "Phone Hacking" which is a separate issue. Obviously a better headline, but WRONG WRONG WRONG. In that the matter may 'relate to' only shows the article was not checked properly!!