• Brooks bought Sara (of Sarah's Law) a phone, then hacked it
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(A few liberties have been taken with the title - voicemail isn't on the actual phone but on the provider's side. But it's a good title, no?) From the Graun, who's riding this ragged into the (cragged) horizon: [quote] [img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/11/1310390793397/Rebekah-Brooks-and-Sara-P-007.jpg[/img] Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone which Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne as gift Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail. Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaire's notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigator's notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target. Friends of Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends". The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Payne by Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters. One of Payne's close colleagues said: "We are all appalled and disgusted. Sara is in bits about it." In a statement, Brooks said the latest allegations were "abhorrent" and "particularly upsetting" because Sara Payne was a "dear friend". Coming after the disclosure that the News of the World hacked and deleted the voicemail of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the news will raise further questions about whether News Corporation is "fit and proper" to own TV licences and its 39% share of BSkyB. It will also revive speculation about any possible role in phone hacking of Brooks, who was personally very closely involved in covering the aftermath of Sarah Payne's murder and has always denied any knowledge of voicemail interception. On 15 July Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International and was arrested and interviewed by police. The Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been an outspoken critic of News International, said of the Payne revelation: "This is a new low. The last edition of the News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family. Brooks talked about it at the committee inquiry. Now this. I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this." ...continued [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne[/url] [/quote] A refresher: the NOTW went on a major paedo-scare spree after the death of Sara Payne - they went on a name-and-shame rampage that accidentally nabbed a pediatrician, and started a letter-writing campaign that opened access to the Sex Offenders registry. Anyway, expect more news to keep drip-dropping as the Met informs victims and probes itself.
It's unnerving seeing my second name all over the internet recently. Brooks did this, Brooks did that.
Everyone involved in this invasion of privacy for profit are horrible people.
At first i thought that Brooks had a knife in her hand.
[QUOTE=Tommyq;31391163]At first i thought that Brooks had a knife in her hand.[/QUOTE] I'll cut that bitch who did it
[QUOTE=Chickens!;31390699]It's unnerving seeing my second name all over the internet recently. Brooks did this, Brooks did that.[/QUOTE] Ever see The Shawshank Redemption? [i]BROOKS WAS HERE[/i]
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