Rebecca Brooks Arrested. Is this assistance by the Police?

[Steffan]

I am posting this mainly to gauge the opinion of others on the TIMING of Rebecca Brooks arrest and the primary reason for the arrest.

It seems to me the Police are in real serious and deep trouble with the bribes free lunches and jollies that have been going on for years and years and years at the Murdoch empire.

I suspect that the timing of the arrest owes MUCH more to the fact that once arrested Rebecca Brooks cannot appear before the parliamentary committee and spill the beans over just how deeply the police are in bed with Murdoch on this.

Ms Brooks is already on evidence as stating that the Police did receive payments. She is a loose canon and I think that the prime reason for the arrest is not to assist the enquiries but to PREVENT the enquiries from the parliamentary committee.

In which case the plot is really thickening. What do other PHers think?

[172ff]

Course it is. Corrupt bunch of bds!

Gawd bless Cameron. He's done nothing wrong

[gingerpaul]

I'd agree that the timing is probably no coincidence, although I'd say it's more likely to be certain members of the police covering themselves rather than a favour to Rebekah Brooks. As with many things in this case I suspect we'll never know.

[gingerpaul]

A quick question on this. In these committees do you have to answer the question to the satisfaction of the committee, as you would in court to a judge, or can you refuse to answer?

[Steffan]

Comments of select committee member confirm the reasons:

Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders, a member of the select committee, questioned the timing of the latest arrest.

"In whose interest was it for this arrest to take place before Tuesday? Because if it does impede what we can ask, that's not going to go down well with my fellow committee members.


I SMELL A RAT

[Elroy Blue]

When are the corrupt MPs on the select commitee going to get their just deserts?

[Derek Smith]

Steffan said:

I am posting this mainly to gauge the opinion of others on the TIMING of Rebecca Brooks arrest and the primary reason for the arrest.

It seems to me the Police are in real serious and deep trouble with the bribes free lunches and jollies that have been going on for years and years and years at the Murdoch empire.

I suspect that the timing of the arrest owes MUCH more to the fact that once arrested Rebecca Brooks cannot appear before the parliamentary committee and spill the beans over just how deeply the police are in bed with Murdoch on this.

Ms Brooks is already on evidence as stating that the Police did receive payments. She is a loose canon and I think that the prime reason for the arrest is not to assist the enquiries but to PREVENT the enquiries from the parliamentary committee.

In which case the plot is really thickening. What do other PHers think?

I reckon the arrest was under advice from CPS. Any police officer deciding to do it without having anyone higher to blame would have to have a death wish. Mind you, that description seems to fit Stephenson.

[Stu R]

Can't help but think it's going exactly to RM's game plan.

[Steffan]

Stu R said:

Can't help but think it's going exactly to RM's game plan.

PRECISELY

[eldar]

Stu R said:

Can't help but think it's going exactly to RM's game plan.

Of course. Perfect reason to answer no questions until the certain-to-be-protracted case is derided. In 2017. That suits the politicians, all the papers and the police. What is there not to like?

[Oakey]

Who hands themselves in on a Sunday?

So will she be sat in a cell for 12 hours before being interviewed like any normal person would? I doubt it.

[Mermaid]

They can all play as clever as they want, but I reckon the British public will not be fooled by any of the shenanigans.

[Deva Link]

Steffan said:

.... I think that the prime reason for the arrest is not to assist the enquiries but to PREVENT the enquiries from the parliamentary committee.

It seems odd to me that when all this seems likely to result in muliple prosections, that the committee is sticking its oar in at all.

[Mattt]

Mermaid said:

They can all play as clever as they want, but I reckon the British public will not be fooled by any of the shenanigans.

Of course not, well at least until Tuesday when there's a Jade Goody tribute special published in the Sun.

With a free giveaway of Monster Munch.

[Stu R]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14179390 The headline lured me in. Throughout the article I was thinking it seemed very... detached from reality, naive, simplistic... I'm not sure which. Then I got to the end and saw who was responsible for it. 'Figures', as our american friends may say.

[Jasandjules]

Well then let's hope the Committee calls senior police officers to explain the timings....

Let's just hope the b***h gets sent down for this. And may as well charge her with paying police officers as well. Perhaps the CPS should obtain disclosure from the NOTW as to whom it paid and get those officers sacked.

[Y282]

what flavour?

[Mermaid]

Jasandjules said:

.. Perhaps the CPS should obtain disclosure from the NOTW as to whom it paid and get those officers sacked.

And what if that means 10% of the officers have to be sacked?

It's a bit like the Bank stress tests going on - only 8 failed last Friday but it's common knowledge that far more would have failed (& huge crisis then) if the stress test had been as taxing as it should have been.

[Police State]

Stu R said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14179390 The headline lured me in. Throughout the article I was thinking it seemed very... detached from reality, naive, simplistic... I'm not sure which. Then I got to the end and saw who was responsible for it. 'Figures', as our american friends may say.

I would have sworn Peston had a story on his blog about how the News International Group were likely to be in material breach of two major US laws. That item was almost, if not the very first publishing on a UK outlet. When I went back to check it 2 days later, it would seem it had vanished... never to return...

[Jasandjules]

Mermaid said:

And what if that means 10% of the officers have to be sacked?

Then 10% of officers are sacked. Dishonest Police Officers are things we can do without. The fact that they have been paid to provide information to a newspaper should also render them open to prosecution IMHO.

It fu**s me off that no-one has any sense of justice or what is right these days, people are far too happy to let scum get away with things.