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<span class="storyTop " nodeindex="1"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two of Rupert Murdoch’s former editors, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, are being charged with conspiring to hack the phone of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler.</span></span><br /><div class="body " nodeindex="2" sizcache="0" sizset="134">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all seven senior News of the World journalists are being charged with conspiring to intercept the voicemails of a total of 600 victims, the Crown Prosecution announced today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glenn Mulcaire, the paper’s private detective, will also face charges in relation four victims including the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke and TV cook Delia Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are the first charges for phone hacking to be brought for six years, since 2006 when the News of the World royal editor, Clive Goodman, was prosecuted for hacking the phones of three royal aides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rupert Murdoch closed the News of the World in July last year after it emerged that the Sunday paper had hacked the mobile phone of Milly Dowler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anger over the news led to the Prime Minister David Cameron establishing the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All seven journalists – including former managing editor Stuart Kuttner and news editor Ian Edmondson – will be charged with offences under the 1977 Criminal Law Act at police stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a press conference in central London, the CPS’s senior lawyer Alison Levitt said they were being charged at with conspiring to hack the phones of 600 as yet un-named victims between 2000 and 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are also all charged with additional conspiracy to intercept communications offences linked to specific victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under these additional offences, Coulson - who became head of communications for the Prime Minister David Cameron - is being charged with conspiring to hack the phones of Milly Dowler, Calum Best, Charles Clarke and David Blunkett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brooks, News International’s chief executive until last July, is being charged with conspiring to hack the phones of Milly Dowler and the former FBU leader Andrew Gilchrist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck is charged in relation to seven alleged victims including Milly Dowler and the former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other former senior NoW staff being charged are news editors Greg Miskiw and James Weatherup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms Levitt said: “All, with the exception of Glenn Mulcaire, will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority, from 3 October 2000 to 9 August 2006. The communications in question are the voicemail messages of well-known people and / or those associated with them. There is a schedule containing the names of over 600 people whom the prosecution will say are the victims of this offence.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She added: “In addition, each will face a number of further charges of conspiracy unlawfully to intercept communications.”</span></div>
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<u><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">These are the additional charges – and the victims:</span></span></strong></u></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Rebekah Brooks will face two additional charges:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The first relates to the voicemails of the late Milly Dowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The second to the voicemails of Andrew Gilchrist</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Andrew Coulson will face four additional charges, relating to the following victims:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Milly Dowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, and</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Stuart Kuttner will face two additional charges, relating to:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Milly Dowler and</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Greg Miskiw will face nine further charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Milly Dowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Sven-Goran Eriksson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. The Rt Hon Charles Clarke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller, and</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Ian Edmondson will face a further eleven charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. the Rt Hon Charles Clarke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Mark Oaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Wayne Rooney</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Calum Best</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. The Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. The Rt Hon Lord Prescott</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Professor John Tulloch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Lord Frederick Windsor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Neville Thurlbeck will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Milly Dowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Sven-Goran Eriksson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. The Rt Hon Charles Clarke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Mark Oaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. The Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">James Weatherup will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. The Rt Hon Lord Prescott</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">For legal reasons Glenn Mulcaire does not face the first of these charges. However, he will face four charges, relating to:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms Levitt said: “During June and July 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service received files of evidence from the Metropolitan Police Service, relating to thirteen suspects. This has followed a period of consultation and cooperation between police and prosecutors which has taken place over many months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“All the evidence has now carefully been considered. Applying the two-stage test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors I have concluded that in relation to eight of these thirteen suspects there is sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction in relation to one or more offences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I then considered the second stage of the test, applying the DPP’s interim guidelines on assessing the public interest in cases involving the media, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of these eight suspects.</span></div>
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<li><strong>Creepy texts between Hunt and Murdoch lobbyist</strong> </li>
<li><strong>The pair repeatedly call each other “Daddy”</strong> </li>
<li><strong>Hunt compares himself to Clint Eastwood</strong> </li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>FM: great announcement today. Well done</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>JH: Merci papa [...]</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>FM: Full of energy and purpose on Andrew Marr! Liked your answer on Rupert and the BBC! Have a great visit to India. Fred</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>JH: Merci mon ami</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In what is perhaps a reference to mutual fatherhood of new babies — their children were born in the same hospital on the same day — <span style="color: lime;"><strong>the pair resorted to calling each other “daddy”</strong>.</span> At times this drifts off into what could be kindly be referred to as flirting.</em></span><br /><blockquote class="ps-quote-smaller">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>FM: You were great on the BBC this week-end!</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>JH: U too daddy [...]</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>FM: Great speech. Watched it with cycling team. And I can’t believe you managed to do Newsnight as well! You have stamina daddy!</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>JH: We all find it somewhere!</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>When Clint Eastwood complained about Hunt </em></span><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/08/does-osborne-feel-lucky-clint-eastwood-writes-to-government-over-axing-of-uk-film-council/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>abolishing</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"> </span>the UK Film Council:</em></span><br /><blockquote class="ps-quote-smaller">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>FM: Be strong! Even Clint Eastwood can’t stop it</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>JH: If they play Dirty Harry so can I!</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>And there’s more. We’re updating this page with the best ones.</em></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143864817951436132.post-84009916721263597352012-05-25T10:30:00.000-07:002012-05-25T11:11:11.208-07:00#Leveson #pressreform : Scotland Yard And Lord Stevens Grim Joke. The MET Are Murdoch's Boys!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Scotland Yard Operation Elveden is a grim in-joke to indicate they would make sure the accusations never went anywhere!</em></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Operation Weeting is the investigation into the News of the World phone hacking itself. Weeting is the village at the southern end of the notorious Elveden traffic jam.” There was never going to be any form of justice for Daniel Morgan ever !</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The whole thing just didn't seem right to me and I had to get out. </em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This individual and those surrounding him were selling stories to whoever would buy them. Some of it was "salacious gossip".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens says he was never aware that News of the World used it.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In his book his says that at the end of the 1990s it kept coming up in the "anti-corruption squad's radar".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The agency was set up by murdered private eye Daniel Morgan.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lord Harris of Haringey, the first chair of the MPA, had decided that all of these meetings should be open. Stevens said it was an examination beyond what he had experienced before.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says this revolved around an article concerning Max Mosley.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Jay points out that the infamous article about Mosley appeared in April 2008, but Stevens had terminated his contract in October 2007. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens is pressed on what he means by "unethical behaviour". "General behaviour," he says.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Asked whether this means phone hacking or behaviour more widely, he says: "Just more widely."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Every now and then" he heard stories that people either still employed or retired were being paid for stories or for tipping people off about where raids were taking place.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says he can usually work out who is gaining by the leak, but it is a "very difficult business" identifying the person responsible.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>However, there were prosecutions for leaks in Northern Ireland.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says at the Met his deputy, Ian Blair, would have been responsible for leak inquiries.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"This is the way they did business – if you didn't do it that way, they probably wouldn't see you," says Stevens.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He quit after two articles because of the conviction of NoW royal editor Clive Goodman and investigator Glenn Mulcaire for phone hacking in 2007.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens resigned the contract in October 2007 which was nine months or so after the convictions.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He revealed however that when the convictions were taking place, "certain other information was coming to my ears" which alarmed him. "I didn't just want to do it," he adds.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>I didn't complete that contract because of the conviction that took place of the two people in the News of the World, and I saw Colin Myler and Neil Wallis and told them I didn't want to continue. I never gave them specific reasons, but from that night on I never saw them again.</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The remaining five articles were negotiated at £7,000 apiece. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"With five articles to write it was throwing away a lot of money," he says.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"I'd never have written the articles had I known what I know now."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens was hired to write seven articles for the News of the World, arranged by his book publisher through managing editor Stuart Kuttner. This was part of the package negotiated around his autobiography Not for the Faint Hearted.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It says light working lunches in the region of £10 are acceptable, but £150 dinners are not, except in exceptional circumstances. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Once was when he complained to the PCC after it was reported he believed in legalising cannabis and the second time was inaccurate reporting on his level of pay.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens says he would have gone where the investigation took him wherever that may be.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"It was totally professional," says Stevens. "I never went to his house or he to mine."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In September 2003, Stevens dined with the News of the World's Wallis, Andy Coulson and Stuart Kutter, as well as Dick Fedorcio. This was part of the general pattern of meeting with editors, he says.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In June 2001 there was a dinner with Neil Wallis, editor of the People.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"I always saw Rebekah Wade with the DPA," he says. "She was pursuing Sarah's Law and at that stage she had threats to her … so the conversations were Sarah's Law and [issues] pursuant to that."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens says he met Wallis twice with their wives in relation to a charity.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He had more frequent – quarterly – meetings with Evening Standard editors Sir Max Hastings and Veronica Wadley because he considered it the "local newspaper for London".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>However, like Condon, he says it shouldn't interfere with an individual's right to a fair trial.</em></span><br />
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<span class="timestamp" sizcache="0" sizset="122"><a class="block-link" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/06/leveson-inquiry-condon-stevens-live#block-44" jquery16409730631595443653="92" title="Link to update 44"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>12.04pm:</em></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> Stevens says the people who are on the frontline tell the story "far better" than senior officers. But there are always inherent risks in allowing officers to speak to journalists.</em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"The risk is you are exposing people who haven't had full training in dealing with the press," he adds.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says it is in the public interest for the police to give off-the-record briefings to editors, for example, on anti-terrorism.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says he was one of first officers to get media training, and was told on an an FBI course: "Never to tell lies to the press."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He adds that the reason people didn't want to deal with the media was because they thought it would be counterproductive and they would be criticised.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He says he hopes it will take into account the Leveson inquiry's findings and report next year.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Complaints against the police had dropped 50%; crime was coming down; and the Met had managed to divert IRA terrorist attacks.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"I know good news doesn't sell newspapers or the media, but we were going to try and do some of that," he tells the inquiry.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"No one thought the Met was an organisation worth joining," he adds.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence was published in 1999 and found the police force was institutionally racist.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Jay asks how that affected his relationship with the media.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Stevens says it had a "massive effect" because ordinary officers felt they were all being painted as racist.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He had a standout stint in northern Ireland where he led what turned out to be a 20-year investigation into alleged collusion between loyalists and the police force.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>• The Leveson inquiry has been told that Jeremy Hunt drafted a memo for David Cameron in late 2010 saying it would be "totally wrong" to give in to those opposing News Corporation's bid for BSkyB. </strong>The document was written about a month before Hunt took responsibility for the bid and, in it, Hunt said: "If we block [the bid] our media sector will suffer for years." Robert Jay, the inquiry counsel, read out extracts from the memo as Adam Smith, Hunt's former special adviser was giving evidence. Smith revealed that he had had no contact with those opposed to the bid, even though he had been in regular contact with News Corp about it. Hunt's aides have been playing down the significance of the memo, pointing out that in it he said - as he always had done - that plurality issues would have to be addressed for the bid to be allowed. </em></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2012/may/24/leveson-inquiry-adam-smith-frederic-michel"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>There are more details on our Leveson live blog.</em></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The culture secretary, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/jeremy-hunt" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Jeremy Hunt"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeremy Hunt</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">,</span> wrote privately to the prime minister urging him in strong terms to back Rupert Murdoch's takeover bid for </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bskyb" title="More from guardian.co.uk on BSkyB"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BSkyB</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>just a month before </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/davidcameron" title="More from guardian.co.uk on David Cameron"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Cameron</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> appointed him to take charge of the bid himself in a "quasi-judicial" capacity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The intervention by Hunt, who is facing calls for his resignation, was revealed for the first time in a document shown to the </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/leveson-inquiry" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Leveson inquiry"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leveson inquiry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on Thursday. Hunt urged Cameron not to allow the business secretary, Vince Cable, to block the BSkyB bid despite strong advice to the culture secretary from his own officials that he should not involve himself in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The culture secretary claimed to the prime minister that if the Murdoch bid was blocked "our media sector will suffer for years". He asked for a meeting with Cable and Cameron to discuss the handling of the deal.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The document appears to corroborate the picture that emerges from earlier email exchanges between Hunt's aide Adam Smith and the News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel. Those emails document an apparently collusive relationship with the Murdoch empire and have already put Hunt's cabinet position in peril.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunt drafted his memo to Cameron on 19 November 2010, initially using his and his aide's private Gmail accounts instead of the government email system, according to counsel to the inquiry. Hunt protested in strong terms about Cable's decision to move against the bid earlier that month by calling in the regulator, Ofcom, to investigate.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warning that "James Murdoch is pretty furious", Hunt went on to demand "Why are we trying to stop it? … I think it would be totally wrong to cave in to the Mark Thompson/Channel 4/Guardian line".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, and other media firms were opposing the bid, saying it would make the Murdoch empire too powerful.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunt, who by then had already been extensively lobbied by News Corp and received angry phone calls from Rupert Murdoch's son James, said: "I am concerned because essentially what James Murdoch wants to do is to repeat what his father did with the move to Wapping … The UK has the chance to lead the way on this as we did in 80s with the Wapping move."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In evoking the spirit of Wapping, Hunt was reminding David Cameron of the way Rupert Murdoch was allowed to buy the Times and the Sunday Times after vociferously supporting the Conservatives in his tabloids and holding a secret meeting with Margaret Thatcher at Chequers. Murdoch then famously broke the power of the print unions by moving his operations to Wapping, where police helped staff brave picket-lines.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The phrasing of Hunt's 19 November draft memo appears to have been sanitised before being sent to No 10, with the help of Smith. The inquiry was told there was also in existence an earlier version of Hunt's thinking. The final version said: "It would [be] totally wrong for the government to get involved in a competition issue which has to be decided at arms length."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunt's activities on Murdoch's behalf had been the subject of stern legal warnings from his own department, according to the inquiry's counsel, Robert Jay. He said the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's legal director had advised that although it was not directly illegal for him to attempt to intervene, to do so would be "unwise". One arrangement to meet James Murdoch had to be cancelled, but Hunt instead spoke to him privately on the phone. Michel, James Murdoch's lobbyist, told his boss in one of the previously disclosed emails: "Jeremy … has received very strong legal advice not to meet us today as the current process is treated as a judicial one (not a policy one) and any meeting could be referred to and jeopardise the entire process. Jeremy is very frustrated about it but the permanent secretary has now also been involved … You could have a chat with him on his mobile … and I will liaise with his team privately as well."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four days after receiving this warning, it now appears that Hunt drafted his plea to the prime minister to step in. It is not known what Cameron did as an immediate result. Shortly afterwards, the Conservative-supporting Telegraph newspaper embarked on an elaborate "sting" operation against Vince Cable. On 3 December, two reporters pretended to be his constituents and by what seems to have been an extraordinary coincidence, he confided in them that he had "declared war" against Murdoch.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was greeted with outrage both by the Murdoch camp and by the prime minister, who declared it was "unacceptable" for Cable to have such bias. Cameron promptly turned the decision over to Hunt. The disclosed documents appear to reveal that Cameron knew perfectly well at the time that Hunt, too, was biased – but biased the other way.</span><br /><br /><div sizcache="0" sizset="75">
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<strong>Not many people know this, but Jeremy Hunt has a younger brother called Charles. Charles used to have a company selling non-apparel cloth (bedding) via direct mail. Right at the end of its ill-starred life, this company – Peacock Blue – acquired one Jeremy Hunt as Company Secretary. Jeremy then made a loan to his brother, declared as ‘to help with his company Peacock Blue’. Then the company went under, and Mr *unt (Snr) resigned. Along the way, however, there are some odd anomalies in this caper. </strong></div>
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Charles Hunt is an accomplished self-publicist. Google him in the context of entrepreurial, marketing and business magazines, and he’s had a feature about himself in most of them at one time or another. He does nevertheless seem to be a bit vague about when his company Peacock Blue started up. Was it…</div>
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<a href="http://www.bieinterim.com/success-from-failure-case-study-1/" jquery172018442129513686="39"><span style="color: red;">In 1999, I set up Peacock Blue, </span></a></div>
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<a href="http://content.yudu.com/A1u3rv/DirectCommerce195/resources/41.htm" jquery172018442129513686="40"><span style="color: red;">In 1996, I set up a catalogue company called Peacock Blue</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: red;">…..</span><a href="http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/people-in-the-news/charles-hunt-why-i-bought-duvets-with-my-car-loan-53232" jquery172018442129513686="41"><span style="color: red;">first retail trading venture, Peacock Blue, in 2000</span></a></div>
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Oddly, none of them are right: it was <a href="http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/03190747" jquery172018442129513686="42"><span style="color: red;">incorporated on 25<sup>th</sup> April 1996</span></a><span style="color: red;">......read more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Daniel Morgan was killed with an axe outside a pub in Sydenham on March 10 in 1987. His family claim he was very close to revealing police corruption.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>While an estimated £50m has been spent on 'inquiries and investigations' since that time, his family continue to fight for the truth about why he died.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Today they met with police and prosecutors to discuss the state of the investigation into his death.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In a joint report by the Crown prosecution Service and police, a total of 17 points of "good practice" were published. What was also highlighted in the report were failures surrounding the use of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This is what Daniel Morgan's family have described as "useless."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Despite five police investigations, nobody has ever been found guilty of the murder.....<span style="color: orange;"><u>read more ALSO featuring an interview with Alastair Morgan.</u></span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The conclusions are from </em></span><a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/agencies/operation_abelard_II_report_may_2012.pdf"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>a new report into the case of the murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan,</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"> </span>killed in 1987 in Sydenham, London.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It said boxes of potential evidence were not disclosed to the defence. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Six investigations have failed to find Mr Morgan's killer. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The report was conducted jointly by the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police and said four boxes were left in storage, instead of being disclosed to the defence, three of which were relevant to the trial proceedings.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This resulted in the collapse of a trial at the old Bailey last year. </em></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: orange;"><u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="cross-head">Axe in head</span> </span></u></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mr Morgan, who was originally from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, and ran a small private detection agency, was found in the car park of a pub with an axe in his head. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Until his death Mr Morgan was in partnership with Jonathan Rees, whose company Southern Investigations has been linked to alleged email hacking.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The BBC's Tom Symonds said it has been claimed Mr Morgan was killed because he had uncovered evidence of police corruption in south London. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Initial investigations failed to get to the bottom of the case, because, it was alleged, of police corruption. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>But in 2006 a new inquiry, codenamed Operation Abelade 2, began and Mr Rees and two other men, Garry and Glenn Vian, were charged with Mr Morgan's murder. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Then in March 2011 the case against them was thrown out because of the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: orange;"><u><span class="cross-head">'Clear oversight'</span> </u></span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Whilst they were already within the police… they had not been entered in to the police records, nor ever assessed. This was clearly an error. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"These three crates had gone unnoticed and were overlooked, whilst stored amongst many other crates." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>One, known as Witness B, claimed to have seen the murder take place. However, the report found he was allowed to contact the senior investigating officer on the Morgan murder team, in breach of rules preventing this. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Assisting offenders are only supposed to talk to those responsible for debriefing them.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The report also said the judge in the case found Witness B was "probably prompted by a senior police officer to implicate Glenn and Gary Vian". </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He had also been tipped off that he had been caught lying about his father's death and given the chance to think of an explanation. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Background details about another key witness, Witness A, were not discovered, and a third witness, C, gave police details of other murders which he had got from a missing persons website. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The report added: "This was a truly exceptional case in terms of a combination of factors, namely its age; the size and the number of linked operations; the enormous volume of material generated, particularly unused, and the fact that all three of the... witnesses were undermined, post charge, by factors that adversely affected their credibility.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"In addition there was a lack of scientific evidence." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Cressida Dick, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, issued a joint statement following the report's publication. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It said: "This case, as the trial judge said, was of an exceptional scale and complexity, with over three quarters of a million documents gathered over 20 years being examined. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"The issues around the disclosure exercise were such that we could not guarantee that all relevant material had been identified, considered and disclosed so as to ensure a fair trial. A further factor related to the unreliability of critical witnesses. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"To this end, the purpose of the review was to identify potential good practice and learning for both police and prosecutors for future cases.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"What the review was not was an investigation into allegations of corruption; nor was it intended to serve the purpose of an investigation for police disciplinary purposes."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The statement added that the recommendations identified within the review would now be implemented by both agencies. This includes new guidance for using supergrasses.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The murder of Mr Morgan was raised at the Leveson inquiry into media standards and ethics in February in evidence from former Metropolitan Police detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>She told the inquiry that she and her husband, Det Ch Supt Dave Cook,<span style="color: red;"> </span></em></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17201982"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>were placed under surveillance by the News of the World</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"> </span>after he appeared on Crimewatch seeking information about Mr Morgan's murder.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Ms Hames told the inquiry that Southern Investigations had "close links" to Alex Marunchak, the newspaper's crime editor in the late 1980s.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In a statement, she said: "I believe that the real reason for the News of the World placing us under surveillance was that suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry were using their association with a powerful and well-resourced newspaper to try to intimidate us and so attempt to subvert the investigation."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Alastair Morgan, Daniel Morgan's brother, said his family believed they too had been placed under surveillance following a critical development in the case in 1998.</em></span><br />
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<span id="synopsis"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The family of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan tell Channel 4 News that the only option left to them now is a judicial inquiry into his death. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Their calls for an inquiry followed a meeting with representatives from Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service to discuss the findings of a review into the last (and fifth) investigation into what remains one of the Metropolitan Police's most notorious unsolved murders.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The most recent investigation collapsed last March, undermined by police failures to disclose documents to the defence and key "supergrass" witnesses who were found to be unreliable.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"We are not going to leave it alone,'' said Isobel Hulsmann, whose son Daniel was found with an axe embedded in his skull in a south London car park in March 1987.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>On the handling of the subsequent investigations, the 84-year-old from Hay-on-Wye told <strong>Channel 4 News</strong> that the family have been "treated shabbily" and have "been battling against enormous odds'".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The first investigation into </em></span><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/pi-murdered-for-plan-to-expose-police-corruption"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Daniel Morgan's murder</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> was, by the admission of Scotland Yard, "tainted" by police corruption.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It was described by former Assistant Commissioner John Yates, in a letter to the Metropolitan Police Authority six years ago, as a "deplorable episode in the history of the Metropolitan Police service".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>One of the detectives in the initial inquiry, Sid Fillery, who was close to one of the suspects, was charged with perverting the course of justice, but was eventually acquitted. In 25 years, no one has been convicted of the murder.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Daniel's brother Alastair has led a relentless campaign to get to the truth of what really happened to his brother and the subsequent investigations into his murder.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Utterly disillusioned with the police, however, the family remain adamant that the only course of action left to them is an independent judicial inquiry. The Home Office today would not be drawn on the prospects of such a move.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A spokeswoman told <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Channel 4 News</strong>:</span> "It is deeply regrettable that Daniel Morgan's killers have not been brought to justice and we understand the strength of feeling this case has caused.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"We will carefully consider the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service's joint report into the case."</em></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Total cost of the failed prosecutions is believed to be £30m </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Damning report finds that the lost boxes and mishandling of 'supergrass' witnesses caused the case's collapse </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bungling police and prosecutors caused the collapse of a multi-million pound murder prosecution by losing four crates of evidence, a damning new review has found. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Five inquiries failed to find Daniel Morgan’s murderer after he was killed in a Sydenham pub car park in 1987, and the case has become one of Britain's most notorious unsolved murders.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Morgan was found with an axe embedded in his head, and his family have always believed he was killed because he was about to unveil a web of corruption involving his business partner Jonathan Rees, an ex-Met police detective friend named Sid Fillery, and a string of police officers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Defence lawyers acting in the case asked for access to particular documents just a month before the last murder trial collapsed at the Old Bailey last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It then emerged that four whole boxes of evidence had been left in storage instead of being handed over, and that three were relevant to the trial proceedings.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As a result, Mr Rees and his brothers-in-law Garry Vian and Glenn Vian were cleared of any involvement in the killing. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The report said: 'The police team were unable, in respect of four of the boxes, to locate them.... These latest developments proved to be the final undoing and the cumulative weight against the Crown's position became untenable.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The review was jointly produced by the police and Crown Prosecution Service, and while it found that the loss of the boxes was the case's 'final undoing', it also criticised the 'unreliability of critical witnesses'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The three witnesses in question were </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'assisting offenders' - commonly known as 'supergrasses' - whose handling is covered by the </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005 (Socpa).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They were undermined by what the report called </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'factors that adversely affected their credibility', and this led to </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the collapse of the case against two other defendants - James Cook, accused of murder, and former detective sergeant Sid Fillery, charged with perverting the course of justice.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The report found: 'This was a truly exceptional case in terms of a combination of factors, namely its age; the size and the number of linked operations; the enormous volume of material generated, particularly unused, and the fact that all three of the Socpa witnesses were undermined, post charge, by factors that adversely affected their credibility. In addition there was a lack of scientific evidence.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A total of 17 points of 'good practice' were included in the review. The</span> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">guidance relating to supergrasses states that a 'thorough investigation addressing the credibility of the witness' is vital whenever they are used. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There should also be a 'full and auditable record of all police contact regarding the management of any Socpa witness' and 'consideration needs to be given at the outset to the types of unused material that could reasonably be expected to be encountered in a particular prosecution, and its anticipated location'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The good practice guidance adds: 'Consideration must be given to the size and complexity of the disclosure task from the outset.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and Alison Saunders, chief Crown prosecutor for London, issued a joint statement today. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It said: 'This case, as the trial judge said, was of an exceptional scale and complexity, with over three quarters of a million documents gathered over 20 years being examined.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The issues around the disclosure exercise were such that we could not guarantee that all relevant material had been identified, considered and disclosed so as to ensure a fair trial. A further factor related to the unreliability of critical witnesses. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'To this end, the purpose of the review was to identify potential good practice and learning for both police and prosecutors for future cases.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'What the review was not was an investigation into allegations of corruption; nor was it intended to serve the purpose of an investigation for police disciplinary purposes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Those recommendations identified within the review will now be implemented by both agencies.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Back in March, Labour MP Tom Watson accused the News of the World of collaborating with suspects in the Morgan murder case by placing a senior detective under surveillance on the pretence that he was having an affair.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking during an adjournment debate ahead of the 25th anniversary of Mr Morgan’s death, he said</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> News of the World crime journalist Alex Marunchak was a close associate of Mr Morgan's business partner Mr Rees - who became a main suspect in his murder - and regularly paid his company Southern Investigators for information.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery were at the corrupt nexus of private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World,' he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Southern Investigations was the hub of police and media contacts involving the illegal theft and disclosure of information obtained through Rees and Fillery’s corrupt contacts.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When Detective Chief Inspector Dave Cook started to investigate the murder, at a time when Mr Rees was still a suspect, it is alleged Mr Marunchak placed the police officer under surveillance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rees was accused of Mr Morgan's murder in 2008 but the case collapsed in 2010.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">West Bromwich East MP Mr Watson told the adjournment debate: ‘The person who was investigating a murder was put under close surveillance by a close business associate of the man he was investigating.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘A journalist tried to undermine a murder investigation.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added: ‘I think Rupert Murdoch owes the Morgan family an apology. I also don’t think he has made his last apology to the grieving parents of dead children.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Marunchak has previously denied having any contact with Daniel Morgan, and all allegations of wrongdoing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>NEWS LIMITED AUSTRALIA did not inform the Australian public that Bob the Koala died in March 2009!</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Sam the scam, Sam the koala is an impostor!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>This story remains suppressed as of 14 December 2011.</u></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>On 12 February a paper was published that for the first time revealed that the stuffed “Sam the Koala” sitting in the National Museum of Victoria is an impostor or fake.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Yes, the original water-drinking Koala is a different animal!</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>That was a male Koala, later renamed “Bob”, who had been captive as far back as 2006!</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The paper by zoologist and author Raymond Hoser, went further and showed that the original video shot showing a water-drinking Koala at Mirboo North in February 2009 was effectively a bootleg, a “set-up” and not a random encounter as alleged until now.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The paper published in Australasian Journal of Herpetology (Issue 8 pp.1-64), went further and detailed the fairly simple (and easily copied) forensics behind exposing one of the most successful frauds in recent Australian history, including various other activities all successfully designed to raise large amounts of money, running to the many hundreds of thousands of dollars.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>As it happens, most of the money raised ostensibly went to worthwhile causes (<u>evidence to the contrary has since emerged)</u> and a logical question to be asked is why the investigative corruption author, Snake Man </em></span><a href="http://www.snakeman.com.au/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>http://www.snakeman.com.au</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> Raymond Hoser chose to expose the fraud at this late stage.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In response he said:</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>“Most of the money likely to be raised by “Sam the Koala” has already been raised, so I don’t think I’m upsetting too many people. More importantly, the public interest is best served by telling the truth and so it is better that it come out sooner rather than later …<u>the fraud and the story is just too big to hide”.</u></em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>As to how many people were knowingly involved in the fraud, the exact detail remains unknown,</u> although claims by some involved suggest that many well-known people were included. Significantly, the main man involved in the fraud, CFA fireman David Tree has admitted to his part in the caper and since justified it along the lines that it diverted people’s attention away from the destruction of the black Saturday fires.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The paper can be found as hard copy from publication date of 12 February 2010 or online from 19 February 2010 at:</em></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.herp.net/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>http://www.herp.net</em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>and following the links.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Further inquiries phone: Snakebusters/Raymond Hoser on 9812-332 or 0412-777-211 (Warning: Lines may be busy, so you may be asked for your number for a “callback”)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>ABSTRACT</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><br />On 7 February 2008, a series of Victorian bushfires killed 173 people and caused massive property losses and death of wildlife. On 10 February a supposedly original video emerged on the internet site “Youtube” that depicted CFA Fireman David Tree feeding an allegedly injured koala a bottle of water. At the same time (as in the next day), newspapers worldwide, promoted the video and four associated still camera photos taken at the same time, with the Koala gaining “celebrity status” and being named “Sam the Koala”. <br /><br />The official (Government) version of the story as dutifully reported in the mainstream media (including the Age and Herald-Sun), from then until present stated that the same Koala was cared for by a Mrs Colleen Wood until it’s death on 6 August 2009 and then lodged with the National Museum of Victoria, whereupon the same stuffed animal remains as of February 2010.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In summary the video depicted was carefully planned and executed and not an unexpected and random act of kindness caught on film as alleged by Tree and agents. It was in fact a bootleg of at least two similar acts both predating the making of this video and known to all or most people most actively promoting “Sam the Koala”. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The depicted Koala had been “planted” for the express purpose of making the pre-planned video and associated photos and was Mr Tree’s second attempt at making a famous “bear” named “Sam”. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The origin of the idea goes back at least as far as 2003 and probably further.</em></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The stuffed Koala at the Museum, now identified as “Sam the Koala”, is female and is not the same koala depicted in the original video and photos. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>It is therefore an impostor or a fraud.</u></em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The originally depicted Koala is a male, identified by the relevant parties shortly thereafter as “Bob the Koala”, allegedly captured in Boolarra two days before the (now female) “Sam”.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>For the first time ever it can reported that the same “Bob” was in fact a long term captive, having been held by Wood at least as far back as April 2006. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A secondary “swap” was the attribution of the relevant still images. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In the first instance and for some months thereafter, photos were consistently credited to “Russell Vickery” of the Herald-Sun. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>However post-dating a report in the Herald-Sun on 12 August 2009, relating to a (then) proposed “Sam the Koala” trademark opposition by the Victorian government through the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), the media and other sources commenced crediting the photos to DSE employee Mark Pardew, including “rebranding” this information on the web on earlier news clips without noting this editing. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The photos credited are the same four identical images raising further questions as to reasons for the “swap”.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Besides the fraudulent and deliberate swapping of Koalas identified as “Sam” shortly after the making of the February video, an act that evidently is known to many involved with “Sam the Koala” since February 2009,<u> a large number of illegal and dishonest activities have also been uncovered. </u></em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u><span style="color: orange;">The common thread and motivation has been to scam enormous amounts of money in the form of cash donations from well-meaning members of the public</span></u> or to divert attention from culpable acts and negligence that led to the massive destruction of life and property on 7 February 2009. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u><span style="color: orange;">Because the fraud has remained undetected to the public at large</span></u> (or at least undisclosed) and there has been a transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to participants and entities they control, the “Sam the Koala” campaign has apparently been highly successful.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Keywords: Koala, Sam, Fraud, Impostor, Money, Wildlife, Conservation, Department of Sustainability and Environment, DSE, Museum of Victoria, John Brumby, Premier, Corruption, Lies, Dishonesty, Venomoid snakes, Phascolarctos cinereus, stuffed, news media, Herald-Sun, swapped, bushfire.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Limited numbers of printed hard copies (at cost) are available at:</em></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.smuggled.com/AJHFP1.htm"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>http://www.smuggled.com/AJHFP1.htm</em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: orange;"><u>Please note that in retalliation for publishing the details of this scam,</u></span> Ray Hoser was harassed and wrongly charged by DSE for fabriacted offences, and then had 11 cops and DSE raid and trash his home and business on 17 August this year, killing a number of reptiles in the process.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>They also got a raft of adverse news stories printing lies about Hoser in the Murdoch press who of course had been the main instrument publishing the Sam Koala scam for the DSE and hence tried to destroy Hoser's good name and business in the classic "hate media" reporting style endemic in the Murdoch tabloids.</em></span></u></span><br /><br /><a href="http://indymedia.org.au/2011/12/14/dses-koala-sam-still-suppressed-by-tabloid-media"><span style="color: red;">http://indymedia.org.au/2011/12/14/dses-koala-sam-still-suppressed-by-tabloid-media</span></a></em></span> </em></span></div>
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<figcaption><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel </span>Morgan was found axed to death in car park of a London pub in 1987<cite> Photo: ITV News Wales</cite></figcaption> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Daniel Morgan was found in the car park of a London pub on March 10th 1987, with an axe in the back of his head. His family claim he was very close to revealing police corruption. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Despite five police investigations, nobody has ever been found guilty of the murder.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The fifth inquiry collapsed last year. Three men - including Morgan's former business partner - were acquitted after the judge ruled senior police had coached one of the main supergrasses in the case.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It was also revealed that large amounts of evidence had not been disclosed to the defence team, partly as a result of the sheer amount of material gathered over the years.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at the time, Tim Godwin, apologised to the family personally, acknowledging that there had been a "repeated failure" within the force to acknowledge how police corruption had hindered the investigation.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Home Office has not yet ruled out a judicial inquiry into police handling of the case.</em></span><br />
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