wednesday1 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 When you sup with devil............. From tonights Guardian online: Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrowSecond former senior News of the World journalist to also be arrested after leaks from NI force police to speed up plans Andy Coulson has been told by police that he will be arrested on Friday morning over suspicions that he knew about, or had direct involvement in, the hacking of mobile phones during his editorship of the News of the World. The Guardian understands that a second arrest is also to be made in the next few days of a former senior journalist at the paper. Leaks from News International forced police to speed up their plans to arrest the two key suspects in the explosive phone-hacking scandal. The Guardian knows the identity of the second suspect but is witholding the name in order to avoid prejudicing the ongoing police investigation. Coulson, who resigned as David Cameron's director of communications in January, was contacted on Thursday by detectives and asked to present himself at a police station in central London on Friday, where he will be told that he will be formally questioned under suspicion of involvement in hacking. After being questioned by detectives from Operation Weeting – a process that could take several hours – the former rising star of News International is likely to be released on bail conditions that include appearing at court at a later date along with his three former colleagues who have already been arrested: Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup. The arrest will be embarrassing for David Cameron who consistently defended his decision to hire the controversial former journalist amid mounting evidence of his involvement in the hacking scandal. Coulson was editor of The News of the World between 2003 and 2007. A close friend and deputy of News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks when she edited the paper, Coulson resigned a few weeks before the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed after admitting intercepting messages on royal aides' phones. In July of that year, he became the head of the Conservative party's media operation and then, following the formation of the coalition government in May 2010, communications chief for the prime minister. He has always strenuously denied any knowledge of the illegal telephone hacking that is at the heart of the scandal currently rocking the Murdoch empire. When he resigned a second time from his Downing Street role as one of the prime minister's closest aides, he insisted he had done so because persistant allegations that he must have known that his reporters had been hacking into voice messages had made it impossible for him to continue in his job. Coulson is one of three News of the World journalists whose evidence to the trial of Scottish MSP Tommy Sheridan is being examined after doubts were cast on his claim that he was unaware of any wrongdoing by News of the World journalists.Evidence leading to the two imminent arrests has come from a cache of emails recently uncovered during NI's internal investigation into phone hacking. The arrests had been planned to take place before August 8th, when Operation Weeting had agreed to pass all the relevant material in their possession to lawyers acting in the civil cases against NI for victims of phone hacking - thereby giving suspects the opportunity to discover what evidence the police hold against them. The Guardian understands that NI had promised the police not to reveal the existence of evidence identifying Coulson and the other journalist, but that detectives began to fear the information would be leaked, after reports appeared suggesting that Coulson approved payments to police officers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/andy-coulson-arrest-phone-hacking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 "Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow" Presumably not by the same plods whose half-hearted and half-witted "investigation" failed to deal properly with these allegations years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sausage Dog Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Lets hope they ask him about the porkies he seems to have made during the Tommy Shedidan trial too. How long do you think he'll get for perjury? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atticus Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 The flames are getting ever closer to Cameron's front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sausage Dog Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 The flames are getting ever closer to Cameron's front door. Well I'm not calling the fire brigade. Let him burn (not literally, in case you think I have murderous thoughts ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Hardly, he has nothing to with Cameron any more. What a surprise that they are shunting all the blame on Coulson. What about that flame haired bitch sat in her ivory tower still claiming she did not know anything about it.... saying she was on Holiday every time the S hit the fan. Dont bosses know what's going on in their own business when they go away? Did she never bothing finding out when she returned? Hmmm. I hope the police get around to arresting her eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 The flames are getting ever closer to Cameron's front door. Don't worry plenty of fire extinguishers in number 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Hardly, he has nothing to with Cameron any more. What a surprise that they are shunting all the blame on Coulson. What about that flame haired bitch sat in her ivory tower still claiming she did not know anything about it.... saying she was on Holiday every time the S hit the fan. Dont bosses know what's going on in their own business when they go away? Did she never bothing finding out when she returned? Hmmm. I hope the police get around to arresting her eventually. Doesn't say much about Camerons judgement of character though does it? I agree with what you say about Camerons pal Rebekah Brooks though, I would have thought working for a company like NI must be like working for the mafia, when the topdogs know everything about everything, in which case it doesn't seem plausible that she was as far removed as she claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Don't worry plenty of fire extinguishers in number 10. Let's hope Cleggy's on fire duty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimba Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 No wonder Cameron is sat in the closet while this lot is going on, leaving it to the real politicians with balls to take the stage. This is like Jenga. Even Cameron could fall from his perch if people really started to tell the truth and rat on everyone, he is simply too close to the lot of them for my liking and Im sure knew a lot more about this lot, all those at the top sht in the same pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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