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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

Here is an extract of MP Tom Watson's speech at the commons today

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I want to inform the House of further evidence that suggests Rebekah Brooks knew about the unlawful tactics of News of the World as early as 2002, despite all her denials yesterday. Rebekah Brooks was present at a meeting with Scotland Yard when police officers pursing a murder investigation provided her with evidence that her newspaper was interfering with the pursuit of justice. They gave her the name of another executive at News International, Alex Marunchak. The meeting, which included Dick Fedorcio of the Metropolitan police, told her that News of the World staff were guilty of interference and party to using unlawful means to attempt to discredit a police officer and his wife. She was told of actions by people she paid to expose and discredit David Cook and his wife Jackie Haines so that Mr Cook would be prevented from completing an investigation into a murder. News International were paying people to interfer with police officers and were doing so on behalf of known criminals. We know now that News International had entered the criminal underworld.
She cannot deny being present at this meeting when the actions of people she was paying were exposed. She cannot deny now being warned that under her auspices unlawful tactics were being used with the purpose of interfering with the pursuit of justice. She cannot deny that one of her staff, Alex Marunchak, was named and involved. She cannot deny either that she was told by the police that her own paper was using unlawful tactics, in this case to help one of her law-breaking investigators. This in my views shows her culpability goes beyond taking the blame as head of the organisation. It is about direct knowledge of unlawful behaviour.
And was Mr Marunchak dismissed. No. He was promoted

Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-live?commentpage=20#start-of-comments

The can of worms is getting larger and messier it seems.

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ORIGINAL: jonson

Oh, and hello mattjtemp, I've missed your dry wit. No seriously, I have.

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ORIGINAL: mattjtemp

Great interview on Radio 5 with Hugh, thanks for the link.

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

Annoyingly the share prices for BSkyB have gone down so it looks like NI will actually benefit from this.

Bunch of c*nts .

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Ofcom is under a legal obligation to ensure that the owners of broadcasters such as BSkyB are fit and proper.
But pending the results of the police enquiry into alleged illegal behaviour by the News of the World, and pending a public disclosure by News International of the way that it has changed its structures and practices to ensure such abuses never happen again, Ofcom is not in a position to adjudicate whether News Corporation is fit and proper. That poses a dilemma for British Sky Broadcasting's independent directors. They know there is an increased risk of regulatory intervention by Ofcom to frustrate the takeover.  Because of that execution risk, they would have to demand a much steeper price from News Corporation than would otherwise be the case. It is their fiduciary duty to do so - and News Corporation, run by Rupert Murdoch, will be well aware of that.

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ORIGINAL: DancingClown

Jesus Christ.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909

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• Difficult times for Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive at News International, and time perhaps to look at her afresh. Visitors to her Wikipedia entry are doing it already. "Despite being editor-in-chief of the News of the World, she apparently has no idea what her staff are doing most of the time," the abused profile said.

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ORIGINAL: superdan

I do actually wonder now if this will have a significant effect on NotW. My inital thought was that it would be embarrassing and inconvenient for them, but ultimately harmless as people and advertisers continued to pour money into their coffers, but it seems as though it could cause serious long-term harm to the publication and even NI in general. If it causes that sour old bastard Murdoch to fail in his bid for BSkyB (unlikely but you never know) he'll be apoplectic. Just the thought of that makes me feel warm inside.

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ORIGINAL: superdan

The NYT are running it front and center on their website, and have been on it all week really. The Washington Post also has it on their main page, so it's getting relatively high attention in the US.

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ORIGINAL: elab49

Spaldron, do you mean the comments by Tom Watson during the emergency debate yesterday - he referred to a specific meeting with the Met that he said both he and Brooks attended back in the early noughties I think.

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In less than a week, Jeremy Hunt has received 100,000 submissions about News Corp's bid for BSkyB - almost all of them opposed to the bid.
The sheer volume of submissions means the culture secretary will not make his final definitive ruling on whether the takeover should be allowed for many weeks, probably not till September.
In that sense, the protesters, led by the campaigning group Avaaz, have done Mr Hunt something of a favour - because the last thing he wants to do is approve the takeover in the current highly charged climate.

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ORIGINAL: Rinc

News of the World shutting down...