News of the World phone hacking whistleblower found dead..

[joe_90]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-o...

police said:

not being treated as suspicious

You could not make this up..
Anyway some amusing quotes from reddit:

reddit said:

Isn’t it lucky to have police who are so brilliantly smart, they can’t explain a death, but they can already tell that it isn’t suspicious?
I bet they knew before they even got there.

I bet they knew what they were going to spend the money on before they even received the bribe.

"Well, ah...you see, the exact cause of death has, uh, yet to be determined. We're working on that as we speak. One thing we're not working on though, is that it wasn't suspicious. That we know for sure."

The police don't think so. Therefore, all of my fears and suspicions have simply vanished.

What, just this guy, and the BP guy, and the Tony Blair/WMD guy... who else?

etc ..etc

Edited by joe_90 on Monday 18th July 20:25

[Haighermeister]

Unbelievable. It's like CSI....

[172ff]

David Kelly mk2.

[Four Litre]

Where's Columbo when you need him?



.....Damn he's dead to!

This is getting more interesting by the day...what started off with a sneaky peak into somebody's voice mail by a sunday rag, ends up with the chief and assistant of the police quitting and now people getting whacked! Hopefully they will have to silence Brown and Blair before the weeks out.

[singlecoil]

Seems reasonable to me to not know exactly what killed him but still know that it isn't suspicious. There may well be that about the death scene which makes it an obvious suicide, but until there has been a post mortem examination, they are not in a position to say what killed him.

[GeraldSmith]

I bet it's tied in with the moon landings, and Area 51 and the 9/11 conspiracy as well. Maybe even ET...

[plasticpig]

GeraldSmith said:

I bet it's tied in with the moon landings, and Area 51 and the 9/11 conspiracy as well. Maybe even ET...

They tapped his phone call home as well?

[davepoth]

Seriously though, even if it doesn't look to be suspicious, I would have as many SOC officers as I had around there looking for clues. I really wouldn't want to be the Met officer that dropped the ball on finding out that this guy in particular was murdered.

[odyssey2200]

Bookmarked

[Cupramax]

You really couldn't make this up, who's next I wonder?

[weezb]

GeraldSmith said:

I bet it's tied in with the moon landings, and Area 51 and the 9/11 conspiracy as well. Maybe even ET...

[mybrainhurts]

Cupramax said:

You really couldn't make this up, who's next I wonder?

I'm hoping Minigland...

[FraserLFA]

This is going to be worth keeping an eye on

[Ozzie Osmond]

singlecoil said:

Seems reasonable to me to not know exactly what killed him but still know that it isn't suspicious. There may well be that about the death scene which makes it an obvious suicide, but until there has been a post mortem examination, they are not in a position to say what killed him.

Of for goodness sake please don't start your speculative piffle on here. The bloke was severely unwell, now he's dead. You can leave your schoolboy detective kit in the cupboard.

[El Guapo]

Plod said:

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

It doesn't sound particularly conspiratorial to me.

[Gogoplata]

"What do we have here officer?"

"Suicide"

"Looks like he took himself by surprise"

[singlecoil]

Ozzie Osmond said:

singlecoil said:

Seems reasonable to me to not know exactly what killed him but still know that it isn't suspicious. There may well be that about the death scene which makes it an obvious suicide, but until there has been a post mortem examination, they are not in a position to say what killed him.

Of for goodness sake please don't start your speculative piffle on here. The bloke was severely unwell, now he's dead. You can leave your schoolboy detective kit in the cupboard.

I 'speculate' that the police statement was reasonable in the circumstances, and you reply like that?

Ah, posted at 23.24. That explains it

[Halb]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Of for goodness sake please don't start your speculative piffle on here. The bloke was severely unwell, now he's dead. You can leave your schoolboy detective kit in the cupboard.

It is rather curious.

[stitched]

Ozzie Osmond said:

singlecoil said:

Seems reasonable to me to not know exactly what killed him but still know that it isn't suspicious. There may well be that about the death scene which makes it an obvious suicide, but until there has been a post mortem examination, they are not in a position to say what killed him.

Of for goodness sake please don't start your speculative piffle on here. The bloke was severely unwell, now he's dead. You can leave your schoolboy detective kit in the cupboard.

I didn't read any indication he was seriously unwell in the article, do you have a link to this info?
Article said he had a drink and drug dependency, had been accidentally injured whilst dissassembling a maquee and had visited his doctor last week but now seemed well.

[Soovy]

bus pass said:

172ff said:

David Kelly mk2.

I'd say so

Indeed. Suicide by 72 stab wounds.