Found Not Guilty, In A Court Of Law - Seasoned Liar, Plotter And Deceiver, Or, An Incompetent, Naive And Blinkered Editor? - Only You Can Decide

Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths?

"Brooks was the main focus of public rage after it emerged that the
newspaper she edited had hacked into the voicemails of murdered
schoolgirl Milly Dowler."

"Many of them have wondered for years how tabloid newspapers were 
able to obtain secret personal information about them, 
even suspecting their closest friends and relatives."

"In her defense, Brooks denied in court that she had ever approved

 phone hacking while she was News of the World editor. Asked about the

practice, Brooks said: "No desk editor, no journalist ever came to me

 and said, 'We're working on such and such story, and we need

 to access their voice mails.'"

"We have paid police for information in the past.

Andy Coulson stepped in to say that payments were only made lawfully."

"That came to pass in 2003 when Rupert Murdoch gave her the
chair at The Sun. He had not only recognised her intelligence
and work ethic, he had been engaged by her charm."

"She was audacious and inventive in a tabloid world where deceit and
 skulduggery are considered virtues."

"The not guilty verdict will leave many scratching their heads.
How could a woman of such intelligence and astuteness rise 
to the top in a male-dominated cut-throat industry and yet be so naïve
or incurious not to want to discover how her underlings were sourcing
 their juiciest stories? Did she never ask, as any good editor would ask,
 where did this come from? Brooks repeatedly told the court she knew little
about phone hacking, claiming she was not aware of the fact that a private 
investigator was being paid more than many of her senior reporters to 
illegally access cell-phone voice-mails. To be so ignorant of the criminal
ruse that put her newspaper so consistently ahead of its rivals would
seem to be beyond belief."

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Published: 12:02, 24 June 2014 | Updated: 14:39, 24 June 2014

HACKING TRIAL VERDICT: Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson faces jail as he is found GUILTY - but Rebekah Brooks and four others are CLEARED

>Andy Coulson has been found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones while editor of the News of the World
>Rebekah Brooks has been cleared of conspiracy to hack phones and also perverting the course of justice
>Her husband Charlie Brooks, PA Cheryl Carter and head of security Mark Hanna also cleared of perverting the course of justice
>News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner cleared of conspiring to hack phones
>Jury still considering whether Andy Coulson and former royal editor Clive Goodman paid public official for royal household phone book
>Prime Minister offers 'full and frank apology' for employing Coulson

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666958/BREAKING-NEWS-Rebekah-Brooks-NOT-GUILTY-phone-hacking-Andy-Coulson-guilty.html
 
Posted: 24/06/2014 13:15 BST | Updated: 24/06/2014 14:59 BST

Phone Hacking Trial: Rebekah Brooks Smirks As She Leaves Court After Not Guilty Verdict

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/24/phone-hacking-trial-rebek_n_5525000.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

24/06/2014 12:01 BST 

Rebekah Brooks Not Guilty Of Phone Hacking Charges, Andy Coulson Guilty 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/24/rebekah-brooks-not-guilty-coulson-guilty_n_5524825.html

June 24, 2014 -- Updated 1407 GMT (2207 HKT)

Andy Coulson found guilty in phone hacking trial; Rebekah Brooks cleared

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/24/world/europe/uk-phone-hacking

12:19PM BST 24 Jun 2014

Rebekah Brooks cleared but Andy Coulson guilty in phone hacking trial

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/10913097/Rebekah-Brooks-cleared-but-Andy-Coulson-guilty-in-phone-hacking-trial.html

Tuesday 24 June 2014 12.31 BST

Andy Coulson guilty over phone hacking as Rebekah Brooks walks free

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/10913097/Rebekah-Brooks-cleared-but-Andy-Coulson-guilty-in-phone-hacking-trial.html

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Hacking trial: Andy Coulson found guilty as Rebekah Brooks cleared of all charges

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-trial-andy-coulson-found-guilty-as-rebekah-brooks-cleared-of-all-charges-9559386.html

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Rupert Murdoch should bear some responsibility for the crimes that the phone-hacking trial uncovered

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rupert-murdoch-should-bear-some-responsibility-for-the-crimes-that-the-phonehacking-trial-uncovered-9559825.html 

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Rebekah Brooks is innocent. Move on.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/5041837.article

Hacked Off?

http://annaraccoon.com/2014/06/24/hacked-off

Hacking trial: Piers Morgan and Louise Mensch declare support for Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks following verdict

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hacking-trial-piers-morgan-and-louise-mensch-declare-support-for-andy-coulson-and-rebekah-brooks-following-verdict-9559721.html
 
Rebekah Brooks post-phone hacking - the comeback

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jun/24/rupert-murdoch-sun?CMP=twt_gu

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@ShyKeenan I choose my friends very carefully and Rebekah Brooks is my very good friend. Sara Payne x
— Dr Sara Payne MBE (@DrSaraPayneMBE) June 24, 2014

.@DrSaraPayneMBE ..we knew she was innocent, to us (Phoenix) Rebekah Brooks has always been a staunch 'victims champion'. Shyx
— Shy Keenan (@ShyKeenan) June 24, 2014

@ShyKeenan not for a single moment sx
— Dr Sara Payne MBE (@DrSaraPayneMBE) June 24, 2014

Never doubted her innocence on these charges for a single moment
— Shy Keenan (@ShyKeenan) June 24, 2014

a Not Guilty verdict doesn't absolve Brooks from overseeing hideous tabloids that destroyed lives. Hypocrisy rampant in UK society
— eric hardcastle (@EricHardcastle) June 24, 2014

#hackingtrial Rebekah in bed with lover/ cad/ bounder Andy:"I told you all about police bribes, U never mentioned hacking 1000s U rotter"
— eric hardcastle (@EricHardcastle) June 25, 2014

#hacking modern romance : in the throes of passionate embraces Coulson never told his boss he was hacking 1000 people
— eric hardcastle (@EricHardcastle) June 25, 2014

pleasing News Ltd 'victim advocates' @ShyKeenan & @ShyKeenan gushed support 4 Rebekah Brooks acquittal & nary a word about paper's victims
— eric hardcastle (@EricHardcastle) June 30, 2014

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Tuesday 24 June 2014 17.29 BST

Andy Coulson found guilty of phone-hacking charge – live reaction

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/24/andy-coulson-found-guilty-of-phone-hacking-live-coverage

Phone hacking

http://www.theguardian.com/media/phone-hacking

25 June 2014 

A Battle for the Soul of UK Journalism

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-uk-journalism/15259#.U6rERECa_sR

June 26, 2014

Bitch-slapping Rebekah

http://annaraccoon.com/2014/06/26/bitch-slapping-rebekah

25 June 2014 

Phone Hacking – the trial of Rebekah Brooks et al

http://ukcriminallawblog.com/2014/06/25/phone-hacking-the-trial-of-rebekah-brooks-et-al

25 June 2014 
 
HACKGATE: Sleeping on Rebekah Brooks 

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/hackgate-sleeping-on-rebekah-brooks

Tuesday 24 June 2014 14.14 BST 

Rebekah Brooks: ‘she’s always been able to get what she wants from people’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/24/-sp-rebekah-brooks-profile-news-international-rupert-murdoch- 

Wednesday 25 June 2014 15.30 BST 

Why it's OK to feel sorry for Andy Coulson 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/25/why-feel-sorry-andy-coulson?CMP=twt_gu 

Wednesday 25 June 2014 18.42 BST

Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/25/-sp-phone-hacking-trial-rebekah-brooks-rupert-murdoch

Wednesday 25 June 2014

Hacking trial: Milly Dowler's sister blasts Tony Blair for offering support to Rebekah Brooks

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-trial-milly-dowlers-sister-blasts-tony-blair-for-offering-support-to-rebekah-brooks-9562741.html

June 26, 2014 

The bigger the State, the bigger the lies

"Now that all the Old Bailey verdicts are in, myriad slippery vipers are wriggling out of the shadows in relation to the Hackgate trial.

Among these are the deletion of ALL emails from Rebekah Brooks' time at the NotW - a staggering 41 million of them - the removal of her pc's hard-drive (which was then "lost"), the questionable nature of her Dubai holiday "ignorance" of the Milly Dowler affair (she emailed, texted and rang the office several times during her absence), crucial evidence of previous use of blagging experts and hackers withheld from the jury - being ruled not relevant to the charges Brooks faced...and further to my point in yesterday's Slogpost, no, the jury did not see the tape of her admitting paying money to police officers for information.

It seems to me increasingly here that Rebekah Brooks faced exactly the charges she wanted to face; what observers and commentators need to decide now is how and why that situation arose."

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/at-the-end-of-the-day-482

27 June 2014 - 8:35am

Phone-hacking trial: Why was Andy Coulson found guilty?

"Early on in the case a veteran journalist described Andy Coulson to me as a "good soldier", and nothing I have seen in this marathon trial has ever led me to disagree with that assessment. The Guardian once reported that the "mantra" at News International when the hacking scandal broke was "You can have Andy but you're not getting Rebekah." Their wish has been granted."

http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2014/06/27/phone-hacking-trial-why-was-andy-coulson-found-guilty

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25/06/2014

CPS statement on hacking trial

http://blog.cps.gov.uk/2014/06/cps-statement-on-hacking-trial.html

25 June 2014

Operation Weeting trial 
 
http://content.met.police.uk/News/Operation-Weeting-trial/1400024715337/1257246745756

Read the Met's statement regarding the conclusion of the Operation Weeting trial: http://t.co/KQodAkkNVA
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) June 25, 2014

@metpoliceuk What is happening to Anthony France?
— The OSC (@OSCP_4) June 25, 2014

@metpoliceuk Rumour has it, he 'helped you with your inquiries', so as to be NFAd - correct?
— The OSC (@OSCP_4) June 25, 2014

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Thursday 17 January 2013 10.32 GMT

The Sun's 22nd journalist arrested under Operation Elveden

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/17/journalist-police-officers-arrested-elveden

Arrests up to 13 June 2013

Phone hacking: Arrests by investigation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17014930

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwh6-lJY26Y

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4/7/14

Andy Coulson sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for involvement in phone hacking

http://ukcriminallawblog.com/2014/07/04/andy-coulson-sentenced-to-18-months-imprisonment-for-involvement-in-phone-hacking

4 July 2014

R‐v‐Coulson and others

"Sentencing Remarks of Mr Justice Saunders - Central Criminal Court"

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sentencing-remarks-mr-j-saunders-r-v-coulson-others.pdf

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Friday 18 July 2014

Rebekah Brooks ‘aware her paper was undermining Met’s murder inquiry,’ claims former detective

"A former Scotland Yard detective has claimed he held a meeting in 2002 with the former News of the World editor, Rebekah Brooks, and told her a surveillance operation ordered by News International had tried to “undermine” a re-opened murder investigation."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rebekah-brooks-aware-her-paper-was-undermining-mets-murder-inquiry-claims-former-detective-9615928.html

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Monday 28 July 2014 09.03 BST

Bullying and hypocrisy – Andy Coulson’s reign at the News of the World

"In 2005, Andy Coulson was the award-winning editor of the News of the World, presiding over a culture of ruthless exploitation. In the second extract from his new book Hack Attack, Nick Davies examines a world where there was only one rule – get the story at any cos."

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/jul/28/-sp-bullying-hypocrisy-andy-coulson-reign-news-of-the-world-hack-attack-nick-davies?CMP=twt_gu

Friday 25 July 2014 14.00 BST

The pervasive power of Rupert Murdoch: an extract from Hack Attack by Nick Davies 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/25/-sp-rupert-murdoch-passive-power-hack-attack-nick-davies

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Saturday 9 August 2014 22.16 BST

News International lawyers face tribunal over alleged hacking coverup

"Jon Chapman and Lawrence Abramson accused of keeping vital emails secret and hiding criminality at the News of the World."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/09/news-international-lawyers-tribunal-phone-hacking

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Stevennott 

Phone hacking trials : My thoughts

http://stevennott.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/phone-hacking-trials-my-thoughts

http://stevennott.wordpress.com

http://www.hackergate.co.uk 

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20/10/14

Brooks ‘sanctioned all cash payments’

"Rebekah Brooks had final approval on every cash payment during her six years as editor of The Sun, Kingston crown court was told yesterday.

The trial of six reporters and executives accused of unlawfully paying police officers and soldiers for stories heard that paperwork linking Mrs Brooks to the allegedly unlawful payments had gone missing.

Charlotte Hull, the newspaper’s former news desk assistant, said that Mrs Brooks only signed off contributor payments over £1,000 paid through bank transfers but approved all cash payments regardless of the amount, she said "Any cash payment has to be approved by the editor".

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4242590.ece