Juries...puh. Brooks cleared of all charges.

[Hetzer]

How anyone could be thick enough to think that cunt was oblivious to all the hacking happening on her watch beggars belief. So it was probably nobbled.

Coulsen though, found guilty on one charge so far. No doubt he'll do a few months in some open nick and write a book about it when he comes out, for which some publisher will advance him a couple of hundred thou.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

Worse still, all the resources you and I have contributed to the court and prosecution costs, but you can bet they all had their defence costs paid by Murdoch. Makes you sick.
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[N cee thirty]

And yet an unknown person will probably face longer in jail than Coulsen for speeding on a motorway in the middle of the night, just to be made an example of :S
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[Tungtvann]

The Jihadists have got it right, this country sucks and deserves to burn!

[Dave70]

But poor Rebekah was just a silly little girl, who had no idea what was really going on and it was all big bad coulsens fault.

Ahh, the great British justice system. Doesn't it make you feel so proud.

Was anybody really surprised by this outcome?

[Skudd]

She does have nice tits though.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

[Suntan Sid]

A cnut and a wrinkly, old, ball bag photographed in close proximity!

https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1364345/brooks-murdoch.jpg
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[Mark_F]

[Rogerborg]

[Pete.]

[Mark_F]

[Robby]

I think the whole phone hacking thing was blown out of proportion in the media. As far as I am aware, they didn't cause any material harm to people, nor did they hold any information that would have been useful to the police. It all came down to accessing voicemail by using the default pin code, and using the information gained to get a scoop and sell newspapers. An invasion of privacy, but once a person has become the subject of a major nationwide media story, privacy has disappeared.

It wasn't ethical, but it was hardly the crime of the century either.

What surprises me is that the various other ways information can be gathered on a person, methods used by private investigators, are still seen as acceptable. Many of those are far more intrusive and shady, and still happen.

As for some good to come out of the situation- one odious tabloid was closed (NOTW), and the other tabloids quickly learned that they also need to be a bit careful. The phrase "too big to fail" only applies to banks.

Murdoch's empire will slowly shrink. See who still wants to pay for news or other media in a decade.

[Tungtvann]

Mark has it bang on, but I'll put some of it into my own words.

I never joined the military for ideological reasons, it was a job and looked like I'd have fun doing it. It's still a job but I'm no longer having so much fun doing it. It's nothing to do with the way I've been treated at all, I signed up, I don't feel bitter for my experiences, it's on a grander scale than me.

I think some jihadists may be right that this country is sometimes morally bankrupt. I don't want an Islamic caliphate under sharia law, nor do I advocate the killing of innocent civilians. I'd still fight for, and put my life on the line for that. But please tell me when that's ever been our job? We've been fighting bullshit wars, for bullshit politicians in bullshit countries. See how Iraq turned out? Wasn't worth a single British life. I think Afghanistan will turn to a similar shit sandwich within a few years.

I feel that certain people in our country can do whatever the hell they like, if you've got the money, you're untouchable. Joe Public better stay in line though, he'll go to prison for years for not paying his taxes! I don't need to labour the point about our justice system further.

So I made an OTT comment about this country burning, I think most people got the exaggeration, but understood my sentiment and the angle I was coming from.

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[Raffles]

[angryjonny]

In order to avoid prison Brooks had to stand up in court and explain to the judge that she was unwaveringly inept in her job.

Anyone else's career would be over at this point but she has enough contacts to land a cushy little number on a few million a year somewhere, even if she isn't trusted to actually do anything.

In order to be allowed any responsibility in this new job she will have to explain to her new employers what they already know - that she did know what her employees were doing, that she did know phone hacking was going on, that she let it and that she managed to get away with it. And she got a multi-million payout. All while the Clyde to her Bonnie got convicted and banged up. How inept does she look now?

Funny old world.

[Rogerborg]

[angryjonny]

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[woo]

i still would slip inside her, something about pale redheads i need to get out of my system but i cant seem to shake it.

if i split with current girl i am so after a pale redhead irish/scotish girl with a strong irish/scotish accent (eastern euro qualifies too)
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[Vincent]

Horrible, corrupt, stuck up, scummy lying bitch....she should make a good politician, perhaps our next female PM

They all suck up to Murdoch and yet the bloke hates the UK and would love to see it/is enjoying watching it go down the pan
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