Given the current febrile atmosphere of the election campaign here in the UK, this is worth revisiting. A comprehensive report by the Media Standards trust shows how politically targeted phone hacking at News of the World was – mainly under the editorship of Andy Coulson (the only surviving phone records to confirm hacking date from a…
Tomorrow marks the 28th Anniversary of the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, and his family’s amazing decades-long campaign for justice. The police corruption around the most investigated murder in British criminal history has been described by an assistant Metropolitan police commissioner as one the biggest stains on Scotland Yard’s history. But Daniel’s murder also leads straight…
More on the Fake Sheikh, the Police, and News of the World by occasional blogger @jpublik. Andy Coulson‘s News of the World sent a man to jail after luring him to sell them drugs he was terrified of carrying by promising him a job. He was sentenced to four years in prison before his conviction…
This is reposting of my Daily Beast article about the Panel Inquiry when it was announced in May 2013: in July 2014 British Home Secretary Theresa May named Baroness Nuala O’Loan of Kirkinriola, as chair of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel. It is Britain’s biggest unsolved murder, and described by a senior police officer as “the…
