Don't you love it when thieves fall out?

I've said from the start this would close the News of the World, end up with Coulson and Flame in prison and could well see my appeal succeed.

And if that clever and intelligent hack gets the sworn affidavits out of the Far East, we may yet see America put Murdoch in the courts and Waxie Maxie might start to squirm (I wonder if that framed letter from Surrey Police is still on his office wall and how the person whose signature is on it feels about it now).

The letter from Harbottle & Lewis LLP is even better.

www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-comm...and-sport/PH20.2.pdf

The killer quotes start on page 9: The Retainer. What the firm was asked to do.

"There was absolutely no question of the Firm to provide News International with a clean bill of health which it could deploy years later in wholly different contextes for wholly different purposes."

See also "Evidence of a News Corp coverup mounts"

blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/08/16/e...corp-coverup-mounts/

"The Murdoch scandal has often been likened to a Shakespearean drama, with the old bull Murdoch portraying himself in Parliament as a Lear-like, borderline crazy character failing to keep his children and his extensive retinue under control.

Those who have worked closely with Murdoch believe this a travesty. For them, Murdoch is more like Uncle Junior in “The Sopranos” who feigned madness to avoid prosecution.

But what emerges from the new letters is that old man Murdoch more closely resembles Richard Nixon than any fictional figure, his brooding presence and paranoia providing an atmosphere of intimidation that permitted chicanery and skulduggery so long as he was not directly implicated.

And, like Nixon, it is the orchestration of the coverup that now links the News Corp boss to the crimes committed in his name."

If Flame or Coulson are convicted of criminal offences, I do hope they are evicted from their homes.

amazing. The ramifications of hacking will be felt for years. I see court cases aplenty and requests for enquiries into many convictions.

david wrote:
If Flame or Coulson are convicted of criminal offences, I do hope they are evicted from their homes.

their first or second homes ?

they should be banned from Chipping Norton..that'd teach 'em.

so many people are going to jail !!

if I was the former pop star called GG I would be consulting Messrs Soo Grabitt & Runn right now with a view to launching an action against a certain news organisation for it's repeated actions in perverting the course of justice.

if the media gossip I hear is true (and JK must know hacks are the worst gossips in town)some young ladies are prepared to give affidavits that they were paid by a British newspaper to give evidence against him....something that same company has form for in his case.

This pack of cards will come tumbling down and US authorities will get involved (think the RICO act)

Mizz Flare Mitchell never said a truer word than when she told the staff of a tabloid that one day they would understand why the newspaper had to close.

###on a completely unrelated matter and entirely con-incidental...it's odd that News International, a corporation borne out of it's founder's ambitions by destroying the career of a Prime Minster and an innocent journalist in his birth place, should end his days humiliated in circumstances that involve the very same sort of people. Karma ?