News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal

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Paul McMullan giving evidence:

4.27pm: McMullan says the News of the World stories have repercussions - he remembers one TV star being sacked.

"Jefferson King – a Gladiator on TV. [I’d say]
‘Tell me all about it and I’ll turn you into a role model’ and got him to say,

‘Yeah I’ve done a line of cocaine’ and immediately I rang up ITV and got him the sack.

It was a sacking offence not to do an interview that wasn’t recorded".

4.22pm: McMullan says he regrets the stories he did on Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of actor Denholm Elliott.

"She became a drug user and started begging following the death of her father and the News of the World exposed this.

I really regret it because I’d got to know her very well and I really quite liked her. The fact she was begging outside Chalk Farm station came from a police officer, who had been surprised when he asked her to move on.

I went too far on that story. Someone crying out for help, not crying out for a News of the World reporter.

I then took her back to her flat and took a load of pictures of her topless.

Then she went on TV and described me as her boyfriend."

He adds:

"When I heard a few years later that she’d killed herself I thought ‘Yeah that’s one I really regret.’ But there’s not many.

Sometimes I wouldn’t have bought the News of the World even though I worked for it, but the British public carried on."

4.20pm: McMullan is asked to clarify whether he believes that no one should have privacy. He says “yes”.

"In 21 years of invading people’s privacy I’ve never actually come across anyone who’s been doing any good. Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in.

Privacy is evil; it brings out the worst qualities in people.

Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it."

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I’d recommend anyone listen to or get a transcript of McMullan’s testimony if they can. Incredible stuff. He argued that hacking into Milly Dowler’s phone was justified because the police are incompetent. Went on about the deals between Cameron and the Murdochs to get him elected as well.

I reckon everyone in the room would have had to go get sick and take a shower after listening to the cunt. Slime personified.

[The_Runt]

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I then took her back to her flat and took a load of pictures of her topless.

Then she went on TV and described me as her boyfriend."

He adds:

"When I heard a few years later that she’d killed herself I thought ‘Yeah that’s one I really regret.’ But there’s not many.

What an absolute fuckin slime ball.

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4.20pm: McMullan is asked to clarify whether he believes that no one should have privacy. He says “yes”.

"In 21 years of invading people’s privacy I’ve never actually come across anyone who’s been doing any good. Privacy is the space bad people need to do bad things in.

Privacy is evil; it brings out the worst qualities in people.

Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it."

wtf? He didn’t say that did he?

[Flano]

Christ almighty that guy needs locking up.

[Thrawneen]

Fucking hell

[braz83]

Is he the guy that was on Newsnight and Channel 4 News a lot when the story was at its height? He always came across as almost like a fictional character, an absolute caricature of what the image of a tabloid journo is.

“Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it.”

Fucking hell. :lol:

[Whiplash]

This stuff is beyond outrageous.

[Thrawneen]

@braz83

Is he the guy that was on Newsnight and Channel 4 News a lot when the story was at its height? He always came across as almost like a fictional character, an absolute caricature of what the image of a tabloid journo is.

“Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it.”

Fucking hell. :lol:

Was just thinking the exact same there while cycling home from work. Everything about him, even his hair and the way he dresses. After reading those quotes I fully expect him to come clean and admit it’s all some kind of twisted post-modern joke which will form the basis of a new show late night on Fridays on Channel 4.

[Thrawneen]

One of the best bits:

“I absolutely loved giving chase to celebrities,” he said. “Before [Princess] Diana died it was such good fun. How many jobs can you have car chases in? It was great.”

This guy’s unreal.

[Bandage]

@The Runt

Ann Diamond (I’d never heard of her before yesterday) said that she found her 4 month child dead in his cot. Her husband rang the police straight away and even before the cops had arrived there was journalists on the door step trying to force their way into the house. Animals.

Eh? Good Morning With Ann and Nick? Not ring any bells? You fucking weirdo.

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@Thrawneen

Was just thinking the exact same there while cycling home from work. Everything about him, even his hair and the way he dresses. After reading those quotes I fully expect him to come clean and admit it’s all some kind of twisted post-modern joke which will form the basis of a new show late night on Fridays on Channel 4.

It’d be like the episode of Time Trumpet where Camilla Parker Bowles turns out to have been Justin Lee Collins all along.

[Julio_Geordio]

Just reading through the blog of proceedings there. Some mental stuff in it:

He was asked to track down the woman who took John Major’s virginity and found her in France.

We found her but couldn’t get picture of her with her new boyfriend. I think the cleaner was in so I blagged my way in and pinched it off the mantlepiece. Rebekah Brooks said ‘No, put it back we’re not allowed to nick stuff’, but Piers [Morgan - former editor of the News of the World] said ‘Well done’.

He started with Thomson Regional Newspapers. He was a journalism student with Michael Gove.

I’m quite pleased to say I finished at the top of my class and he finished at the bottom end and he’s now minister for education.
:lol:

[Julio_Geordio]

DP

[artfoley]

yerman seems like a unrepentant odious slime ball. hopefully someone does a jill dando on him

[Rocko]

I think he reckons he’ll come out of this sounding like a cool maverick but he’s just the epitome of a cunt.

[Arseboxin]

The best day by far at the inquiry. Nick Davies before him was really good too

This slimeball is pretty representative of the type of hack nurtured by Rebekah Brooks, Piers Morgan and Andy Coulson. Which leads me to think this dude is up to one of two things with his testimony today: he’s either going down in a blaze of ‘glory’ and taking them with him (hopefully) OR he’s taking greenback and will be the main fall guy for this whole malarkey (likely)

All that’ll come of this is an independently regulated PCC (as opposed to Editor led), a couple of dudes like yer man take possible jail time and the papers either figure out a new way to get stories or go back to old fashioned journalistic methods

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@Arseboxin

The best day by far at the inquiry. Nick Davies before him was really good too

This slimeball is pretty representative of the type of hack nurtured by Rebekah Brooks, Piers Morgan and Andy Coulson. Which leads me to think this dude is up to one of two things with his testimony today: he’s either going down in a blaze of ‘glory’ and taking them with him (hopefully) OR he’s taking greenback and will be the main fall guy for this whole malarkey (likely)

All that’ll come of this is an independently regulated PCC (as opposed to Editor led), a couple of dudes like yer man take possible jail time and the papers either figure out a new way to get stories or go back to old fashioned journalistic methods

I’d be fairly certain it’s not that, because one of the points he is making is that all the methods were used not only with the prior knowledge of, but on instruction from the editors.

I’m not sure what to make of him, other than the fact that he is a cunt obviously. By laying out what the culture is like in these places in such an unapologetic fashion, I think he is inadvertently doing a public service here. It becomes harder for top brass to deny it with a straight face. Not really sure what his motive is. My best guess is that he genuinely detests Brooks and Coulson for leaving the hacks out to dry and is trying to nail them.

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Fantastic by briantinnion here exposing the hypocrisy of Joe Publc - horrified at the lengths these cunts go to yet delighted to feast in rumours and innuendo that are printed.

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@Appendage

Fantastic by briantinnion here exposing the hypocrisy of Joe Publc - horrified at the lengths these cunts go to yet delighted to feast in rumours and innuendo that are printed.

Who’s Joe Public?