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Rebekah Brooks cleared of all charges - Andy Coulson guilty

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,530
    edited June 2014
    Surprised she has been found not guilty - OK, haven't heard all the evidence, but there did seem to be quite a bit about them disposing of stuff...

    Guess the buck doesn't always stop with the boss.
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    edited June 2014
    blah blah blah, libel blah!
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    The info she picked up from hacking the jurors phones was obviously put to better use than Coulson's.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Libel alert!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Unbelievable - been following this closely in Private Eye "The Trial of The Century".

    She's about as innocent as Linda Lovelace.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Weegie Addick said:

    Surprised she has got away with it.

    or, you know, she's not guilty of committing any crimes.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    kentaddick said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    Surprised she has got away with it.

    or, you know, she's not guilty of committing any crimes.
    Yeah, right! Guilty as sin but, as Weegie said, got away with it.

  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,530
    kentaddick said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    Surprised she has got away with it.

    or, you know, she's not guilty of committing any crimes.
    Edited...

  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,810
    Be very careful what you write folks.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    How can we comment when we haven't heard all the evidence? Anyway WOULD YA?

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    dickplumb said:

    How can we comment when we haven't heard all the evidence? Anyway WOULD YA?

    Exactly the same way, that "we" say players are shite when we've never heard of them :-)
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,358
    dickplumb said:

    How can we comment when we haven't heard all the evidence? Anyway WOULD YA?

    Exactly, only appropriate thread, a WouldYa.

    Enough conspiracy theories on CL with the football, let alone this.
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,258
    This was so obviously going to happen. The defence knew that somebody had to carry the can, so it was all about making it Coulson and presenting her in the most flattering light.
    Brilliant piece of defending.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,897
    been done:

    http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/42363/would-ya-hacking-special
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,284
    edited June 2014
    I don't quite understand how you can be found guilty of a conspiracy charge on your own? You have to have at least two people to make a conspiracy surely?

    Whatever it is highly embarrassing for David Cameron.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Were there not some text or email messages between David Cameron and his friend Rebecca Brooks famously signed off 'LOL', which Cameron took to mean lots of luck? Were not Rebecca Brooks and Andy Coulson sharing special moments together, and didn't Andy Coulson then work for David Cameron? Andy Coulson has now been found guilty of stuff.
    It now turns out that Andy Coulson was doing bad stuff, and of course without David Cameron having been involved in any way at any point. I mean Cameron said he asked Andy Coulson if he was a naughty boy and Andy said no, so Cameron decided to give him a 'second' chance. I wonder what the first chance was.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    why embarrassing for Cameron.
    Did he ask him to do it?

  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,369
    I thought she was guilty for 2 reasons;
    If you've got that far with the CPS you must done something
    And being ginger.

    Harsh may be but trials would be a lot quicker if I was in charge.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,470
    MrOneLung said:

    why embarrassing for Cameron.
    Did he ask him to do it?

    Hired Andy Coulson afterwards.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,197
    Cameron said he was led to believe Coulson had done nothing wrong, but later said; "I gave a man a second chance and that was a mistake." But I figured, you don't give second chances to innocent people. Unless you know, really, that they f****d up.

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,758
    Addickted said:

    Unbelievable - been following this closely in Private Eye "The Trial of The Century".

    She's about as innocent as Linda Lovelace.

    Linda was a very sweet young lady...
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,799
    Addickted said:

    Unbelievable - been following this closely in Private Eye "The Trial of The Century".

    She's about as innocent as Linda Lovelace.

    In what way was Rebekah Brooks exploited and abused?
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603
    Bosses and workers, looks like a class based judgment, sick of this tbh...
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    Remember the legal test was 'beyond reasonable doubt' and not 'the balance of probabilities'. We do need to be careful what we say here .It seems that there was some key evidence which damned Coulson whereas from what I could determine the evidence against Brooks was more circumstantial.

    Just seen a TV report and I think it was his email to a colleague saying 'do his phone' which damned him. His visit to David Blunkett to discuss his affair also seems to have been seen to be significant.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Brooks to well connected.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    SilentAddick said:

    Bosses and workers, looks like a class based judgment, sick of this tbh...

    Buddy - you are so spot-on.
    A sad day for Britain.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    Sometimes people may be guilty but the evidence isn't there. With Coulson there was a telephone converstaion - aptly- that had him banged to rights. The fact he was guilty suggests possibly that other editors of that paper followed the same practices - but if they deny it and you don't have any proof you can't convict! Rightly so.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,628
    She is obviously not the fantastic top journalist she likes to think she is if she didn't know where half the stories she printed came from or did it not occur to her to ask how the journalists got the information.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,300
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    I don't quite understand how you can be found guilty of a conspiracy charge on your own? You have to have at least two people to make a conspiracy surely?

    Whatever it is highly embarrassing for David Cameron.

    The conspiracy was with a bunch of journos who've already plead guilty IIRC
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    Scandalous that with the evidence he didn't plead guilty. Cost of trial enormous. Can he be chased for proceeds of crime as his bonuses would have been based on the papers phone taps sold?

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