And You Still Really Expect Me To Believe She Didnt Know

[bazwillrun]

and or had no involvement whatsoever........Im hurting so much from laughing I need a doctor......
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/03/phone-hacking-trial-news-world-ian-edmondson-pleads-guilty

so far thats eight out of ten guilty and Im expected to believe that the top dawg of a red top rag like the News of the World wasnt involved.......you really couldnt make this up.....

Elvis found alive and working in chippy, Shergar found giving kids rides on Blackpool Beach, Life discovered on Moo........

[Jomlett]

This week also Rebekah Brooks dropped her claim against the Crown to recover £20 million costs.

That's News Corp paying more hush money. I wonder why Edmonson changed his plea to guilty after many months of pleading the opposite?

[Bazile]

//That's News Corp paying more hush money. I wonder why Edmonson changed his plea to guilty after many months of pleading the opposite? //

Apparently there is a tape of him admitting that he took part in the activity

[Zeuhl]

Apparently, Rebekah has also made a pile of money selling Tefal the formula for whatever she puts on her shoulders...

[tonyav]

Yes, I believe she got the formula from Tony Blair.

[Zeuhl]

Tony is completely coated in it

[tonyav]

LOL.

[whirlyhurly]

Yet another one of the elite "untouchables".

[mikey4444]

Of course she knew...its obvious to anyone, apart from the Jury apparently,

[bazwillrun]

The jury have to go by the "stories" they are fed.......and in this case.....

wonder what else she "didnt know" about....what exactly was she doing there and getting highly paid for then ?.....doesnt seem to be an ideal candidate to be running things with such little grasp of what some of her top people were doing

[whiskeryron]

// In July 2011, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said Brooks should "consider her position" after the Milly Dowler allegations.[35] Prime Minister David Cameron said that if Brooks had offered her resignation to him, he would have accepted it. Milly Dowler's parents also called for Brooks's resignation.

When Brooks told News of the World staff that the newspaper was being closed down, some reportedly said that all of their jobs had been sacrificed to save hers.[36] Andreas Whittam Smith suggested that Brooks's decision not to resign was symptomatic of "the self-serving, conceited thesis that 'only I, who was at the helm during the disaster, can steer us to safety.'"[37]
source Wikipedia.

[agchristie]

Bazwillrun - \\\the jury has to go on the 'stories' they are fed\\\

I would suggest that if that was the case then you have to look at the Prosecutor who failed to expose those 'stories' to the standard of the burden of proof. Brooks and Coulson's trial was extremely in depth. Her presumed guilt should not ride on others' guilty pleas, that is too simplistic.

[Peter Pedant]

// This week also Rebekah Brooks dropped her claim against the Crown to recover £20 million costs. //

JOm jom I noticed that - the case for the other claimers goes on

It is quite hard to get costs under these circumstances and remember that the Girl in Red was being 'maintained' ( someone else was paying - her c employer in fact). So in that case the employer was trying to recoup costs of her defence and failing

claim was for lots by the way - 1 to 10 million

[Peter Pedant]

WR

a leader sacrificing her underlings - standard practice innit ?

if successful the leader says: well of course I knew nothing about it

[Peter Pedant]

// Her presumed guilt should not ride on others' guilty pleas,//

that was the whole point of turning Queen's evidence innit ?
now giving evidence for the Crown in the hope of a reduced sentence.

[Hypognosis]

I don't particularly believe her innocence either but, all the same, loads of people get away with things without their boss finding out, so every chief exec does have that as a get-out clause.

Her particular case was especially weak because it's the in an editor's job description to challenge staff over the sources and verifiability of the juiciest facts. "How did you come by this info" is the most basic such question. Maybe having to ask that 20-30 times per day wore her down and she took the short cut of not bothering?

But how did she imagine her journalists were bang on target so frequently? Did she think they had crystal balls or were all mind-readers, or something?

I'd love to go through the jury's thought processes, to see if they touched on that aspect, for even a minute.

[bazwillrun]

""How did you come by this info" is the most basic such question. Maybe having to ask that 20-30 times per day wore her down and she took the short cut of not bothering?
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I'd also like to know what the stance of the rags legal office was.
A lot if not all of these stories would have had to have been ok'd by them, and im expected to also believe they didnt ask any questions of where and how some of the details/information etc came from...I spent nearly twelve years at the mirror group so I have a pretty good idea of how these things works.
The whole affair stinks to high heaven, there is no way on this earth that her and others could not have known that this information was illegally garnered, its just not possible, Mrudoch may not have known specifics but he would know that newspapers especially the sort of rags he owned used illegal methods to get stories.

[sandyRoe]

I think she must have been very lucky with her jury.

[janbee]

I haven't believed a word Becky ever uttered. She was VERY lucky with her jury....VERY lucky!

[agchristie]

Weak jury or weak prosecution?

[Jomlett]

Exceptional defence lawyers for Brooks muddied the hacking waters to sow doubt in the Juries mind.