Hacking issues - involving the McCanns

Andrew wrote:

Heisenburg wrote:What's prompted the article though,they've not been negatively portrayed with all the talk of OG carrying on,the £750,000 ready to continue the search,KM feels that Madeleine is still in or around Praia De Luz,GM been set up for a fall?

.... because he knows the sh!t is really about to hit the fan.

chrissie wrote:

Heisenburg wrote:What's prompted the article though,they've not been negatively portrayed with all the talk of OG carrying on,the £750,000 ready to continue the search,KM feels that Madeleine is still in or around Praia De Luz,GM been set up for a fall?

Because he was talking about Leveson and media intrusion and people rightly pointed out that they had paid Bell Pottinger £500,000 to make sure the story was kept in the spot light

Heisenburg wrote:What's prompted the article though,they've not been negatively portrayed with all the talk of OG carrying on,the £750,000 ready to continue the search,KM feels that Madeleine is still in or around Praia De Luz,GM been set up for a fall?

Heisenburg wrote:

chrissie wrote:

Heisenburg wrote:What's prompted the article though,they've not been negatively portrayed with all the talk of OG carrying on,the £750,000 ready to continue the search,KM feels that Madeleine is still in or around Praia De Luz,GM been set up for a fall?

Because he was talking about Leveson and media intrusion and people rightly pointed out that they had paid Bell Pottinger £500,000 to make sure the story was kept in the spot light

I agree but whats brought it on? and why GM for lead singer when the recent press stories have hardly been intruding,where's CM one wonders.

Andrew wrote:You'd actually think he would have nothing but praise for the press and the Government.

And be bending over backwards to get both on side as much as possible.

Clearly not. Interesting.

Always said April was the 'time'.

Neck on the line but I really hope I'm right.

A few more weeks to go anyway.

espeland wrote:

Andrew wrote:You'd actually think he would have nothing but praise for the press and the Government.

And be bending over backwards to get both on side as much as possible.

Clearly not. Interesting.

Always said April was the 'time'.

Neck on the line but I really hope I'm right.

A few more weeks to go anyway.

With the Portuguese decision due anytime, it's more than encouraging that the £500,000 paid for PR is so widely quoted now: if the decision favours Dr Amaral, are the UK press likely to remain silent? I think not. Dr Amaral will be giving plenty of quotes which will be widely reported. Sure the McCanns can appeal, but it will be too late.

And I don't imagine Katie Hopkins will remain silent for too long if the McCanns ignore or refuse her invitation to go on LBC.

And why are OG continuing, even though with a very small team? Can they still be looking for Madeleine? Or waiting for something else to happen? It would look mighty odd if they closed and then all was revealed from Portugal. Mind you, OG has looked mighty odd for quite some time.

It may not be this month, but very soon.

No wonder Gerry looks ill

Andrew wrote:For reference - this is the letter wrote to the PM.

Dear Prime Minister,

We write to you as people who have experienced press abuses and who look to you to ensure that such abuses are not inflicted on others in the future.

You made many promises on this issue in 2011-13, not only to us in private meetings but also publicly in Parliament, under oath at the Leveson Inquiry and in the form of the historic cross-party agreement on press self-regulation which you signed as Prime Minister only three years ago.

You promised, for example, to ‘make doubly sure that we get to the bottom of what happened’ when press standards collapsed. You said:

‘What is absolutely vital is that we put in place a regulatory system that they [the victims of press abuse] can see has real teeth.’

You pledged:

‘The relationship between politicians and the media must change.’

We want to express our frustration and dismay that, five years on, these solemn promises have not been kept, and we urge you to honour them now.

We were extremely disappointed last October when the culture secretary said he was delaying indefinitely one of the essential measures in the cross-party agreement – Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 – that was designed to give independent press regulation ‘real teeth’ and was a key recommendation of the Leveson Inquiry - one you said that you accepted.

Worse, by delaying or shelving this measure your government will deny the public the low-cost access to justice that Leveson intended. Some of us know from experience how daunting it is for an ordinary citizen to take a big newspaper corporation to court for libel or invasion of privacy. In the cross-party agreement you undertook to deliver this low-cost justice through Section 40, but now it appears that you want to break that promise.

We urge you to commence Section 40 without delay.

We have also been concerned to read, through newspaper articles sourced from the Government, that you are seeking to cancel the crucial second phase of the Leveson Inquiry. Since this is meant to establish how lawbreaking took hold in our press, why the police failed to stop it and who was  responsible, we need hardly say why this is of such vital public importance.

Not only did you promise that the inquiry would get to the bottom of this lawbreaking, but you also stated explicitly of Leveson 2:

‘It is right that it should go ahead and that is fully our intention.’

We urge you now to remove any doubt by confirming that the second phase of the Leveson Inquiry will go ahead without fail once the last criminal trials have concluded.  

Some of us wrote to you on some of these issues in November, asking you either to act then or to meet us face to face to explain your position. You declined to do either. This amounts to another breach of promise, for in 2011 you declared:

‘We must at all times keep the victims front and centre of this debate.’

Instead, you have met with newspaper editors and proprietors on a regular basis.  For example, between June and December 2015 you met with Rupert Murdoch and his editors on no fewer than seven occasions.  Our request for a meeting with you continues to be ignored.

At your suggestion some of us met on 24th March with the Culture Secretary.  He refused to agree to the implementation of the costs incentives by commencing section 40. Once again, he was unable to give us any explanation as to why your promises were being broken.

We believe that it is not just us whom you are at risk of betraying, but Parliament, the public at large and the future victims of a press industry which was condemned by Leveson for ‘wreaking havoc in the lives of innocent people’. If your promises are not kept, history tells us that newspapers will wreak that havoc again.

It is not too late. Please honour your promises.

We are copying this letter to the other signatories of the cross-party agreement and to the leaders of the other political parties in Parliament.  We invite them to join us in demanding that you keep the promises you made.

Yours,




Snipped from this:

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/04/06/press-intrusion-victims-condemn-david-cameron-failing-continue-leveson-inquiry

Dee Coy wrote:
Talk about backfiring! His attempt to pre-empt has sent thousands of curious new people to the McCann PJ files.

candyfloss wrote:Investigative reporter for BBC said this yesterday..............



Simon Cox ‏@simoncoxreports  · 21h21 hours ago  

The vitriol and pomposity about Gerry McCann is predictable, depressing and ill informed. Twitter at its worst




Oh dear

The BBC appealed against the order on the principle of open justice in British courts, and the fact that many modern web browsers allow instant sharing to social media.