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Andy Coulson arrested!

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NicholasTeakozy · 30/05/2012 10:20

On suspicion of perjury apparently. From the BBC

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StillSquiffy · 30/05/2012 13:13
BlackOutTheSun · 30/05/2012 13:15

Sean Connery has just been informed by police that his phone was hacked

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 30/05/2012 14:21

who on earth would want to hack Sean Connery's phone? And why do these slebs not put a pin code on their phones? Or were the pincodes somehow got around?

BornSicky · 30/05/2012 18:05

finally!

is the Sheridan link maybe one of the real reasons he wasn't DV?

so, what does this say about cameron then? great judgment the man has... obviously Hmm Grin

BlackOutTheSun · 30/05/2012 18:08

It says Cameron needs to find some new friends Grin

Meglet · 30/05/2012 18:12

I've had a PIN code on my phone for at least 10 years. I had to do it when went abroad. Maybe the system was different in those days?

AgentProvocateur · 30/05/2012 18:15

Tommy Sheridan - the gift that keeps on giving. Two hugely entertaining trials and now this.

BornSicky · 30/05/2012 18:23

Pincode on your phone isn't the same as a voicemail pin, sadly.

Urgent question at pmqs? Cameron has got to be getting nervous now. Or will some unknown private secretary or mi5 vid suddenly fall on his sword tomorrow?

BlackOutTheSun · 30/05/2012 18:24

Whens the urgent questions?

Meglet · 30/05/2012 18:40

sorry, I meant a PIN code on my answer phone. I had to do it when I wanted to pick up messages on holiday.

garlicfucker · 30/05/2012 18:52

Haha, Sheridan's quote: "Hopefully Mr Coulson won't be lonely, but will be joined by colleagues in the future." Grin Grin

Just saw his Leveson/shares thing as well: "Andy Coulson has told the Leveson Inquiry he held shares in News Corporation worth £40,000 while working as the prime minister's press chief. ... In his witness statement, he said he only considered a possible conflict of interest over the shares after he quit."

Fancy that, he didn't even think of it. Did he not read the papers, then?

MarySA · 30/05/2012 19:27

Oh they won't be able to answer any questions at Question time. Confidentialilty and all that. Strange how this has come out nicely before the Jubilee and two public holidays. I bet they are alll hoping it'll all be forgotten by next week.

Piffpaffpoff · 30/05/2012 19:34

I don't think he's been arrested, he's been detained on suspicion of committing an offence. The Scottish system slightly different under this circumstance.

Pan · 30/05/2012 19:41

Hmm...7 police officers arrive from Glasgow chez Coulson at 6.30am. He isn't provided with a choice as to whether he takes a nice trip north to answer questions about an allegation of perjury at the High Court.

But no, he has been detained, not arrested.Grin

Pan · 30/05/2012 19:43

as a point, no-one in England is arrested 'for an offence' - they are always arrested 'on suspicion' - only a court can determine who commited an offence.

BornSicky · 30/05/2012 19:57

sorry, i meant at next prime minister's questions.

but agree marySA tis a good weekend to bury very, very bad news.

let's hope they charged him at the end of next week, so it bounces back on the front page after the jubilee.

didn't coulson make some passing remarks to knowing about hacking/voicemail pins in his biography that he glossed over/fluffed when under Leveson or one of the select committees?

Piffpaffpoff · 30/05/2012 19:59

I've been having a smile to myself imagining to myself what the atmosphere in the car must have been like on that long, long journey north. And then comparing it with the atmosphere chez Sheridan. Smile

Pan · 30/05/2012 20:00

hope it was a big car. Some of those 'Weggie cops are massive.

Piffpaffpoff · 30/05/2012 20:02

Bornsicky think you're thinking of Piers Morgan. In his first book about 7 years ago he alluded to being told by someone else that people knew how to listen to voicemail messages. This is why I think it's hilarious that everyone acted so surpassed when it first came out, it had been sitting in his book, in print, for years!

BornSicky · 30/05/2012 20:06

ah yes! you're right piffpaffpoff i am confusing the two...

wonder how i did that!

paper editors, sleaze merchants, generally vile individuals up to the neck in crap... Grin

Ponders · 30/05/2012 20:39

I read the Piers Morgan diaries 2 or 3 years ago & OK, he will have had his own agenda, but a number of anecdotes (including that one) suggested that he actually did have a surprising amount of integrity for a redtop editor (& certainly much more than R Brooks).

he hasn't been incriminated (yet...) despite an awful lot of innuendo, & he's long gone from the Mirror; if there was anything on him surely it would have come out by now?

BornSicky · 30/05/2012 20:46

i do wonder about Piers Morgan. Not only was he a tabloid editor, but he was a celebrity editor and spent very many years printing dross about people. Guess the next few months will tell if he's involved or not, but I suspect he was at the very least aware of what people were up to, participant or not.

Ponders · 30/05/2012 21:01

What finished him at the Sunday Mirror was those photos supposedly of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. When I saw them I was stunned that he ever thought they were genuine - they were so clearly posed & carefully framed - but he was staunchly against the Iraq war, & really wanted to believe that they were ammunition against the Blair govt (hence integrity comment above) so he put his head on the block for them.

of course that doesn't mean that he didn't use some dodgy methods - eg buying stuff from people who rummage through celebrity bins Hmm

Nancy66 · 30/05/2012 21:27

It was the Daily Mirror.

molschambers · 30/05/2012 21:46

Fuck me the orange tan man is like a phoenix from the ashes.

Gaun yersel Tommy! Get it right up ye Coulson ye sleekit wee shite!