News Corp board shocked at evidence of payments to police, says former DPP

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Lord Macdonald tells committee it took him 'three to five minutes' to decide NoW emails had to be passed to police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/news-corp-police-payments-macdonald

"Blindingly obvious" evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, when he inspected News of the World emails, the home affairs select committee was told.

Explaining how he had been called in by solicitors acting for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation board, Lord Macdonald said that when he inspected the messages it took him between "three to five minutes" to decide that the material had to be passed to police.

"The material I saw was so blindingly obvious that trying to argue that it should not be given to the police would have been a hard task. It was evidence of serious criminal offences."

He first showed it to the News Corp board in June this year. "There was no dissent," he recalled. "They were stunned. They were shocked. I said it was my unequivocal advice that it should be handed to the police. They accepted that."

[tanyev]

1. Shocked!

[MadMaddie]

2. Shocked I tell you!! I am guessing they had a budget line

just for these kind of payments.

[joeybee12]

3. I call bullshit...they knew what Murdoch was like, everyone did...

they chose to bury their heads in the sand.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

4. Who is trustworthy - reliable - honorable??

Sad to say - no matter what type of evidence of wrong doing by Rupert Murdoch and his papers and TV stations and radio stations - the viewers of FOX will still believe their only true source of “news” is FOX!!! They will claim the “LIBERAL PRESS” are the ones lying to them.

[mrcheerful]

5. So Murdoch is using the Reagan excuse........I know nothing