Downfall Of Andy Coulson, Part 2

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28199829

That G4S minibus is going to be up and down the M1 a lot over the next
few weeks !

[douglas9401]

M6/M74/A74(M) is quicker for Glasgow, Mikey. :)

[Peter Pedant]

why dont they just do it with.... a phone link ?

[Jeza]

Or transfer him to a prison in Scotland. I bet he is on suicide watch.

[sandyRoe]

A phone link, would that not be rubbing salt in the wound?

[anneasquith]

oh heck............this will be interesting :O

[Hopkirk]

It fascinates me that he is such a bad lad, but Rebeccah Brooks is sweet and innocent.

[Jeza]

RB innocent. lol

[Peter Pedant]

yeah in mitigation he could begin his speech

I am speaking with conviction .....

[Gromit]

Peration Rubicon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rubicon

[Quizmonster]

At last...the answer to the question I've been asking here on AB for some time! That is: When is he going to be tried on the perjury case?
I felt that perjury was a rather more important charge, as far as the law and the very fabric of society were concerned, than phone-hacking myself, but I guess the veritable 'crowd' involved in the latter was what made it take precedence.

[Gromit]

The legal profession tend to take this very seriously. Apparently the maximum sentence in Scotland is 7 years.

[mikey4444]

LOL Dougie !

[Peter Pedant]

The speed at which they do these things is a wonder to behold...
one of my neighbours has been on bail for 4 years....
case relisted for Jan 2015....

and has anything interesting been the cause of the delay > Nope....

[Peter Pedant]

The connection is with the Tommy Sheridan case - he won a libel case and then a little later did time for perjury himself,

but I dont see where Coulson comes in ....

Lying in court - I never recommend it. but I can but admire people who do - and even more if they " get away with it". This is from Wiki:

In 1998 John McVicar lost a libel action brought by sprinter Linford Christie over his claim that Christie was a "steroid athlete". Ironically, six months after McVicar lost the libel action, Christie's track career was ended when he received a two-year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance.

and I am pretty sure J mcV tried to get his money back.....

[douglas9401]

Cheers Mikey. :)

[Jomlett]

Andy Coulson has apparently been attacked in Belmarsh - by a prisoner who once found himself in the pages of NoTW.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-coulson-attacked-belmarsh-prison-by-crook-news-world-story-1455868

[mikey4444]

I abhor violence but I suppose there is a certain poetic justice here somewhere !