3Rd Policeman Sacked In Plebgate Row.

[mikey4444]

Well, we seem to making some progress ! The Teflon coating that our Police have had applied seems to wearing off at last !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27222171

[murraymints]

about time too !

[emmie]

one of them is suing Andrew Mitchell.

[Jomlett]

one of them is suing Andrew Mitchell...and is seeking £200,000 libel damages!

[sp1814]

mikey4444

Don't you get the feeling that this story shouldn't have gone as far as it did?

[Gromit]

// Scotland Yard said it "would not disclose" how information was leaked to the press by PC Weatherley or to whom. //

Why not?

This is the crux of the story. An inaccurate version of events (lies) was published by some newspapers. The information must have come from police sources. The police are a public service and covered by privacy laws as well as data protection laws.

So why are we not told who she talked to to leaked this information?
Whether that 3rd party has been prosecuted?
Did any money take place for the information?
Is that relationship corrupt?

[Bazile]

I've not been following this story .

What about the other aspect of this matter - did he or didn't he used the now famous word

[sp1814]

Bazile

I think it's gone so far beyond that, that many people don't know who is using who, for what, and who was and wasn't telling the truth.

[Gromit]

Bazile

The conversation was not recorded. So it is impossible to prove either way. One persons word against another. So definitively I doubt we will ever know for sure.

[mikey4444]

In answer to your post at 15:59 sp1814, it started to go too far when the Met Police started to tell lies.

[ludwig]

// One persons word against another //

To make things worse, a politician's word against the police's. Neither profession with a particularly stunning record when it comes to telling the truth.

Can't we just sack, fine, and imprison everyone involved to be on the safe side? They've all wasted enough of our time and money on this as it is.

[Gromit]

Weatherley's actions took place shortly after The Filkin Report into the relationship between the Police and the Press. The report has largely been ignored, as were Levesons criticisms of the same thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16411329

Most recent Government's have been affraid of the press, but Cameron seems particularly scared, ignoring report after report recommending changes.

[Quizmonster]

Bazile, as best as I remember it, Mitchell happily admitted using the f-word, so I'm not too sure that the p-word was all that important. Of course, I can see that a high-ranking Tory's use or not of the latter to a policeman would put him in a poor light 'socially', but I'd say he was lucky not to be arrested for the former.

[jno]

you don't get arrested for the f-word, Quizmonster, you get your own series on Channel 5.

[Hymie]

Adding to Jomlett’s post; from the current edition of Private Eye

£200,000 - Damages demanded by ‘Plebgate’ PC Toby Rowland for ‘great distress, humiliation and upset’ he says Andrew Mitchell caused him.

£3,500 - Average compensation paid to families of those killed in Hillsborough disaster caused by police incompetence.

[Gromit]

From last weeks Mail on Sunday.

// Now two women and one man, all from the Diplomatic Protection Group, face the prospect of further disciplinary action. The first hearing, tomorrow, is for an unnamed constable accused of forwarding PC Rowland’s log to Glanville. Two further hearings will be held for a PC accused of falsely claiming not to have been in contact with Wallis, and for a constable accused of giving false statements to Operation Alice. //

So we have had one police woman dealt with. Wonder what happened to the other two?