Tom Humphries thread

[Watch_The_Break]

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

Jesus. That is absolutely not the right thing to say in that situation.

[Mac]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

@dodgy_keeper

They played an interview on Matt Cooper there of an interview between the host and David Walsh in December 2012.

Walsh had praised Humphries as “a fine man” in a book he had just written.

Cooper asked if that is acceptable considering the serious allegations made against Humphries at the time. Walsh replied that Humphries was a “great, great man.”

When Cooper made a point of saying that it was hypocritical for someone to vilify Lance Armstrong but offer support to someone facing these serious charges he said it was an “odious” comparison.

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

Walsh came across as an utter cunt.

@Mac and the other Lance haters looking very foolish now

2 cunts don’t make an alright sort

[Mac]

I wonder did Walsh take the sky shilling in recent years knowing that the Humphries loyalty would ruin his career.

Or does he just crave the limelight to be the voice that opposes popular opinion.

[caoimhaoin]

Well ya, but sure everyone is in that boat

[Matty_Hislop]

@Mac

I wonder did Walsh take the sky shilling in recent years knowing that the Humphries loyalty would ruin his career.

Or does he just crave the limelight to be the voice that opposes popular opinion.

They are interesting points, but I think it’s Walsh’s hubris that has caused him to do this. I believe he thinks he’s untouchable.

[Ashman]

If that it so there is a ferociously thin line between hubris and stupidity ( and more) .

[artfoley]

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

The truth in court is that he sent a 14 year old a cock picture and then groomed her over another 2 years and sent several thousand texts.

What truth does Walsh think will come out?

Hook got the bullet for less

[dodgy_keeper]

@artfoley

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

The truth in court is that he sent a 14 year old a cock picture and then groomed her over another 2 years and sent several thousand texts.

What truth does Walsh think will come out?

Hook got the bullet for less

Only possible explanation is if Humphries fed Walsh a fairytale that it was all lies etc and that he’d be cleared in court etc.

In that case Walsh should surely have cut him loose when he pleaded guilty and refused to have anything to do with him from then on.

This is far worse than what got Hook in such strife imo.

[Sidney]

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

Giving a character reference is one thing.

If he said the above, with the clear implications attached to such words, he’s a disgrace.

[braz83]

Paul Howard (AkaPaulHoward)

[gilgamboa]

@artfoley

What truth does Walsh think will come out?

Wasnt the interview from before Humphreys was even charged? Walsh was basing it all on tH version of events at that point. Hes some man to hang his reputation on Sky and TH

[gilgamboa]

@Sidney

If he said the above, with the clear implications attached to such words, he’s a disgrace.

He said it in 2012 didnt he? Not recently. Still shite but is Cooper representing the interview as recent?

[myboyblue]

@braz83

https://twitter.com/AkaPaulHoward/status/917426629034631171

Paul was still willing to back David at his 7 Deadly Sins book tour.

[Bandage]

No, he said it was a previously recorded interview from 2012 which was never broadcast before.

[gilgamboa]

@Bandage

No, he said it was a previously recorded interview from 2012 which was never broadcast before.

All very fucking bizarre. Walsh must be after having some kind of a mental breakdown

[myboyblue]

@gilgamboa

@Bandage

No, he said it was a previously recorded interview from 2012 which was never broadcast before.

All very fucking bizarre. Walsh must be after having some kind of a mental breakdown

Maybe chasing the whale eventually drives everyone insane, even the ones who catch it.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@gilgamboa

@Bandage

No, he said it was a previously recorded interview from 2012 which was never broadcast before.

All very fucking bizarre. Walsh must be after having some kind of a mental breakdown

He didn’t have his usual column in the ST this week.

[balbec]

There usually is

[Raylan]

@Watch_The_Break

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

Jesus. That is absolutely not the right thing to say in that situation.

Didn’t Thrawneen come back from his meeting with Kimmage with the same story?

[Mac]

@Raylan

@Watch_The_Break

@dodgy_keeper

Also Walsh said that he knew more about this case than anyone and that he was confident “the truth will all come out in due course.”

Jesus. That is absolutely not the right thing to say in that situation.

Didn’t Thrawneen come back from his meeting with Kimmage with the same story?

Journalist Investigated over Teenage Girl

Yeah, but what I want to know is how a man finds himself thinking it’s ok to start a relationship with a 14 year old. As far as we know, Tom was fairly much a model citizen up until a couple of years ago. Good friends with Paul Kimmage, a man who seems to me to be credibility incarnate. I see it as a breakdown, some kind of mental illness. Maybe that’s way off the mark. But maybe it’s not.