Out of proportion? After two years and one of the biggest police investigations in history, the trial of senior editors and journalists charged with phone-tapping and bribing police starts this week. But nobody was murdered, intercepting communications only carries a two year sentence, and the police shouldnt have accepted bribes from cheeky hacks in the first place. The list of charges: ■ Ian Edmondson, Rebekah Brooks, Andrew Coulson and Stuart Kuttner between October 3, 2000, and August 9, 2006, conspired together and with others and persons unknown to intercept, without lawful authority, communications in the course of their transmission by means of a public telecommunications system, namely mobile phone voicemail messages. ■ Clive Goodman and Coulson, between August 31, 2002, and January 31, 2003, conspired together and with persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office. ■ Goodman and Coulson, between January 31, 2005, and June 3, 2005, conspired together and with persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office. ■ Brooks between January 1, 2004, and January 31, 2012, conspired with others and persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office. ■ Brooks, between February 9, 2006, and October 16, 2008, conspired with others and with persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office. ■ Brooks and Cheryl Carter between July 6, 2011, and July 9, 2011, conspired together to do a series of acts which had a tendency to and were intended to pervert the course of public justice, namely permanently to remove seven boxes of archived material from the archive of News International. ■ Brooks, Charles Brooks and Mark Hanna, between July 15, 2011, and July 19, 2011, conspired together and with others and persons unknown to do an act or a series of acts which had a tendency to and were intended to pervert the course of justice, namely to conceal documents, computers, and other electronic equipment from officers of the Metropolitan police who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers. source: The Sunday Times
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:24:01 +0000
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