and he is, of course, an American.
"See the closing paragraphs on this story, and see if you can guess at the likely source:"
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Liz - likely to stay in hospital until Tuesday - has named former boyfriend, millionaire playboy Steve Bing, 35, as the father.
Pals insist he HAS called her, contrary to reports last week.
Ex-lover Hugh Grant was yesterday said to be flying from America to visit Liz.http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2011/07/notw-hacking-liz-hurley/And, as Tim Ireland (who has posted on DU a few times, by the way, as 'manic') points out, we can be pretty sure Grant wasn't passing information to the News of the World.
Tim has also found the story about another missing girl, Danielle Jones, and her phone. Like the Milly Dowler case that got the hacking to the centre of all the news, this involves the messages (text messages, this time) being part of the actual case. From The Independent:
Stuart Campbell, the uncle of the 15-year-old schoolgirl whose body was never found after her disappearance in June 2001, was convicted of her murder in 2002 after a trial in which prosecutors relied on forensic evidence relating to text messages sent from Danielle's phone.
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Chris Bryant, a Labour MP who has been a prominent campaigner on the hacking scandal, told the Commons yesterday that evidence suggesting Danielle's phone and others linked to her were targeted by Mulcaire had been discovered by Operation Weeting, the inquiry into phone hacking. Police sources confirmed details of the phones had been found and said the information was being assessed for potential impact on the original murder investigation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/another-murder-case-linked-to-illegal-phone-hacking-2308184.htmlAnd from Tim:
1. Rebekah Wade/Brooks and Andy Coulson have repeatedly sought to shelter themselves behind a denial that they were not aware of what was going on in their own newsroom. As so many of the smoking guns have been relatively minor/diary pieces in the back pages, this tactic has been largely successful, if a little pyrrhic (i.e. leaving Wade/Brooks and Coulson in a position where they are merely incompetent as far as anybody knows, and not corrupt).
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3. The prosecution of the killer of Danielle Jones relied a great deal on evidence involving falsified text messages sent from Danielle’s phone by the murderer (
context). If staff from News of the World are found to have compromised or undermined this evidence in any way, it could conceivably lead to a challenge against the relevant conviction.
Now, take a look at the scan of the original article (below), which (a) dominated Page 11 of the newspaper, (b) is clearly based on text messages sent to Danielle Jones’ phone, (c) makes that same point ab-so-lute-ly clear in a headline that you would have to blind – or on holiday – to miss, and (d) appears to actually express disappointment that police would not allow the release of further/outgoing messages!
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We are expected to believe that editors were not aware of any of this, before or after publication. This is a claim I reject, especially now that I have seen this evidence. It is also highly unlikely that Essex Police failed to raise the issue of the sensitivity of text messages with editors,
because their concerns about the importance of text messages as evidence are right there in the article approved for publication.
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2011/07/notw-danielle-jones/Scans of the original stories are on Tim's site. There's a lot more there - he's had posts on the NotW coverage of Milly Dowler and the killers of Jamie Bulger too:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/
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