I feel sorry for both injured spouses in this. Awful for them. A marriage breakdown is horrible, but this one is being poured over by the media. And the kids will be suffering too.
Hancock is a coward, I can imagine him racing home to tell his wife, not through any duty, loyalty or respect to her, but to get home before a journalist had told her. Horrible little man. Then waking up a sleeping child to tell them...all of it is awful, and selfish of him.
It isn't just a matter of how it was filmed, was it planted, was it from the usual CCTV...it got to The Sun. It got into the hands of the Sun. I wonder when? I wonder how? That's the big question here, if security within Whitehall saw this, how did it make that leap to a tabloid newspaper? If it was planted ... by whom? How? This happened over 7 weeks ago...and it broke on Friday. Lawyers pouring over it? Who knows.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that it was a set up to catch him. They wanted him out, and he's out.
A decent PM would have fired Hancock for this. But I can totally imagine that if Boris was clueless about this, him telling MH, "first rule mate, don't get caught". So, if Boris was unaware, then perhaps there were others in Whitehall who wanted MH out, and set about achieving their goal.
It's seedy and horrible and now there will be even more dirt dishing on the little toad.
This must not deflect from far more serious errors made by Hancock. He should still be held to account. This must not wipe out the many errors, contracts, lies he told. When his stupid App and "world beating" test, track, trace debacle was wasting time and costing lives. He's accountable for far, far more than this tawdry affair.