All quiet this evening at the Coulson home as I drove past. No press pack. Was there one this morning?
I do feel sorry for his wife and children though. I assume that they have moved out by now in any case. The house selling seems to be getting even more desperate and unsuccessful. Granted hes innocent until proven guilty and he wasnt the only one at fault, but would anyone want to be the person who buys the house and help him pay his legal bill?

Looks like News Corp's allegedly highhanded casual approach to giving evidence under oath is rapidly unraveling.

Only News Corp employees and owners have made such willful and allegedely mendacious attacks (ie he declared war on me so he got what he deserved) on public persons in alleged attempts to diminish them.

Andy C arrested twice, Rebekah B - is that only once for her ?

If Gordon B's fairly concise evidence today at Leveson, supported by his Civil Servant's precise record of when calls were made and what correspondence took place, is in anyway even half-accurate, it could make difficulties for Rupert M's efforts to substantiate his evidence as being accurate. Even News Corp's QC today looked uncomfortable as he presented an insubstantially dubious end-of-session question, "that my client feels should be answered by Mr Brown". He was required to press home with the nonsense even after the Inquiry's QC had declined to take the question forward.

Perhaps whatever coaching and briefing News Corp employees were given should have included at least one session that articulated the substantial difference between giving evidence under oath on matters of fact and expressing vitriolic opinion and pontification

Perhaps the heavy hand of the boys in blue on a few more News Corp shoulders may be required before the message finally reaches home.

Just as you think things have gone quiet, Operaton Elveden strikes again.

A 34-year-old man has reportedly been arrested in south-east London and is being questioned at a south-east London poice station.

Andy Coulson is allegedely 43 so it's probably not him - do we have another near-neighbour who is implicated ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18796837

It would seem that the Kent man is Sunday Mirror crime reporter Justin Penrose.

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It seems the south-east London man is reporter Tom Savage.

Rather interestingly his web page has a locater "whereami" that had him at East Dulwich Police Station at 07:00 this morning.

http://www.tomsav.com/

I did not know East Dulwich police station was operational - I thought it had lain dormant since the horses were moved out from the stables at the rear.

I'm not convinced by the evidence from GPS evidence that he is at East Dulwich police station. The location shown on the map (assuming it is accurate) is a few streets away and would possibly be on Landcroft Road. Which was mentioned by somebody claiming the same name in 2008 on a local councillor's blog.

This could be where he was arrested at 6am this morning before being taken to the police station just round the corner.

Fortunately the newspapers have better leaked information than a map on a website.

Definitely still operational.

Press and TV Cameras at Andy Coulson's House now.

Apparently waiting for a statement from him regarding this morning's news that the CPS and Met Police have now charged him to add to his Scottish legal woes.

This post was last modified: 24-07-2012 02:13 PM by jgdoherty.

The ex-News International gang were back in court today.

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, two other editors and three more journalists plus PI Glenn Mulcaire have been scheduled for trial to commence in September 2013, accused of conspiracy to unlawfully intercept communications.

Prosecutors allege that there are more than 600 victims of their actions.

Andy Coulson has further charges pending trial in Scotland.

Rebekah Brooks also has further charges pending and is accused, along with her husband and five others, of perverting the course of justice on charges that relate to an alleged attempt to hide evidence from police investigating phone-hacking claims and illegal payments to public officials by the News of the World and the Sun. All are scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey.

It is hoped that our non-plebian boys-in-blue keep a very close eye on their collective whereabouts. Lesser crims would have to endure much stricter bail conditions and even detention whilst awaiting trial.

Especially given their alleged propensity to commit additional crimes whilst on bail awaiting trial for other offences.

Glenn Mulcaire recently won his civil case against News International, thereby re-securing their ongoing obligation to have to pay his legal fees after they had tried to renege on the deal. It would be hard to believe that the other ex-News International luminaries do not have similar binding agreements in place.

The BBC are stating that there are large volumes of information that cannot be reported publicly at this stage as today's hearing is principally for case management of what will be a large and complex set of trials.

Let us hope that matters are not made so complex that a jury cannot understand them and thereby fail to reach a proper judgment.

I think this may be a first for SE23.com - a link to the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/world/...?ref=world

And why post such a far flung link here.

It contains a report that the News Corp gang have a plan to pay off one of their former members, Rebekah Brookes, in the sum of $11m - yup - eleven million dollars.

Clearly their leader feels that she must be innocent of all alleged charges - what other possible motive might he have for settling such an astronomical sum upon her.

So there we are - we should cease worrying - no-one's privacy was invaded - the profits of their collective activities are for the sharing.

Makes you feel safe to go to bed at night knowing your personal details were not hawked around to the highest bidder with the lowest of morals and with one singular objective - make a buck the fastest way you can.

So Andy Coulson has been found guilty, almost three years after this thread was started.
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/112969...e_hacking/

Tom Savage, who was also mentioned in this thread, was charged last year with corrupt payments to police and public officials.

(source)
His trial is set to begin in October this year (source).