Coulson & Brooks hacking trial starts today

[rohrl]

Derek Smith said:

rohrl said:

I can’t see how Brooks can get off the secondary charge of hiding/destroying evidence. They seem to have her bang to rights on that one.

There was a lot of coverage at the time of the police raid. If her notebooks went missing then there is a degree of pressure on the defence to answer that one.

I've got a friend who reckons that some might well change their plea halfway through the trial. Sometimes the judgements of the defence as to the amount of weight a jury might give to a certain bit of evidence are little more than guesswork. If evidence is given firmly, confidently and naturally, it can be very persuasive. I was in court at a trial with Argyle. The main prosecution witness came over well and at the end of the evidence in chief the defence counsel asked for 'a moment or two' to confer with the defendants. Argyle said something like: I thought you would. I don't expect it will take too long.

Someone whose opinion I find worthwhile listening to reckons that the trial will not go the full distance.

I was thinking of the laptop found in a dustbin.

Remember it was disposing of evidence which saw Conrad Black locked up, not the original crime.

[Derek Smith]

rohrl said:

I was thinking of the laptop found in a dustbin.

Remember it was disposing of evidence which saw Conrad Black locked up, not the original crime.

I wouldn't bet on that getting through into evidence unscathed.

There will be a considerable number of days of barbed comments on cross. I invented the word insinuendo to describe the technique of the defence counsel in such matters.

It is a serious offence and I think the mind of the defence might well focus on such matters.

[anonymous-user]

Derek Smith said:

I wouldn't bet on that getting through into evidence unscathed.

There will be a considerable number of days of barbed comments on cross. I invented the word insinuendo to describe the technique of the defence counsel in such matters.

It is a serious offence and I think the mind of the defence might well focus on such matters.

You invented the word 'insinuendo' Derek? I think some would disagree there as it's been around since the 19th century according to the OUP.

[Derek Smith]

REALIST123 said:

You invented the word 'insinuendo' Derek? I think some would disagree there as it's been around since the 19th century according to the OUP.

Well, I'm shocked. It never occurred to me to look it up.

Damn!

Still, prossibly, which I came up with when being questioned in court, remains mine. I couldn't make up my mind between possibly and probably and inadvertently amalgamated the two. Everyone laughed. Except the judge who looked over he glasses at me.

[carinaman]

turbobloke said:

'Eye not in contempt of court' says Attorney General and the jury members have seen it, so we have plod overstepping the mark even by 'asking' (as happens). There must be a museum somewhere with truncheons that need polishing, a better use of time than hassling innocent vendors.

Didn't they have some collars to feel or DNA samples to be demanded?

[carinaman]

Is that officer's shirt undone?

The guilty ones are the those in the suits?

[Mermaid]

Allegedly

[onyx39]

Turns out Coulson and Brooks were far more than colleagues... Grant Mitchell well be coming after him!

[Eric Mc]

Not to mention Charlie.

Lovely folk, the lot of them.

[Bradgate]

The relationship between Brooks and Coulson was the story which caused the "Affair at no 10" tabloid headlines a few months ago. There were all manner of rumours at the time about who was involved.

[KTF]

Is NI still picking up their legal costs as I thought I read they had long since washed their hands of them?

[onyx39]

KTF said:

Is NI still picking up their legal costs as I thought I read they had long since washed their hands of them?

I would imagine her payoff should cover it.

[Derek Smith]

KTF said:

Is NI still picking up their legal costs as I thought I read they had long since washed their hands of them?

If I were the legal advisor to NI I would, perhaps, suggest that such an investment might well be worthwhile.

Skeletons can rattle.

[gpo746]

I wonder if Andy got to run is hands through her hair as lovers do
It must have taken friggin ages

[CoolHands]

I love how she's dressed like a nun everyday. What sad transparent tactics.

• edit* I've just thought I might update this everyday with her various outfits yes, I've nothing better to do.

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[Chimune]

6 years ! They were fking for 6 years ! In secret !

Privacy is for paedos," declared former News of the World man and tabloid veteran Paul McMullan in the midst of his evidence at the Leveson inquiry.

He had only just observed that "in 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never found anybody doing any good"

[carinaman]

She looks really nice in this photo, though it's slightly unsettling that people that look so good can be so unpleasant, books, covers etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24762474

I'll probably not be seen with a Poppy this year. What's the difference between PRISM snooping on our communications and the Press doing it?

[Eric Mc]

carinaman said:

She looks really nice in this photo,

Only because it's out of focus.

[gpo746]

CoolHands said:

I love how she's dressed like a nun everyday. What sad transparent tactics.

• edit* I've just thought I might update this everyday with her various outfits yes, I've nothing better to do.

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Why is that bloke in the first picture carrying a decorated bollard under his arm ?

[CoolHands]

looks like he's trying to smuggle it right under our noses!