Peter Jukes

Beyond Contempt (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A factual account of the trial of British newspaper journalists for phone hacking, corruption of officials and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Among the accused were the former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. This book covers every twist and turn of the case, which was heard in London in 2013 and 2014.

Blow by blow: Crown v Rebekah Brooks & Others

Peter Jukes, an award-winning TV crime writer, starts at the beginning. In October 2013, an eight-month trial starts at the most famous court complex in London, the Old Bailey. It's a showdown that pits tabloid newspaper executives from Rupert Murdoch's News International against the British state.The journalists are accused of phone hacking, corrupting public officials and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. After years of cover up involving News International, the Metropolitan Police and the Government, the judge tells the jury: "British justice is on trial".

Insight into British journalism and politics

After tweeting the first few days, Peter Jukes, the author accidentally becomes the UK's first crowd-funded journalist. New media exposes the old as the trial lays bare the venality and surveillance of the News of the World: its ability to pry into the lives of anyone who matters, at any moment. A Hollywood actress. A missing girl. A Cabinet minister.It's also a battle.

Battle of wits between London's top lawyers

With Rupert Murdoch's millions, seven defendants hire London's top QCs. Rebekah Brooks has the £5,000-a-day silk for corporations, Jonathan Laidlaw. Several times the multi-million pound cases totters on the brink of collapse. Drawing on verbatim court exchanges and exhibits, Jukes reveals the daily reality and grand strategies of a major criminal trial. He gives the secret of Rebekah Brooks' 14 days in the witness box. He explains why during a cigarette break a defence lawyer gave him a wry smile. And he discloses the failings of the Crown Prosecution Service which contribute to the (to some) shocking verdicts.

REVIEWS

Top court reporting (Nick Davies, The Guardian)

Remarkable. I feel I now know all the key players and why some defendants were found guilty and some not, despite never having spent a minute at the trial(Professor Stewart Purvis, former ITN editor)

Written in a chatty, gossipy style that brings the courtroom drama alive.(Nigel Pauley, Daily Star journalist)

Absorbing and highly revealing... What's striking is how the mass of cash Rupert Murdoch threw at the defence disrupted, disturbed and thwarted the prosecution (Dan Waddell, ex-redtop reporter)

This book is that rare beast a ground-breaking volume that's also entertaining and informative... There's a little of Dickens sharp observational eye in his accounts of the David v Goliath battle that took place in Court 12. Naturally, this being the underlings of billionaire Rupert Murdoch versus The Crown, the normal rules were suspended.(Paddy French, Press Gang)

A must read for anyone who wants to understand not only our media, but power in Britain(Owen Jones, author The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canbury
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780993040771
• Artikelnr.: 53312375

Autorenporträt

Peter Jukes is a British journalist and screenwriter. His television credits include devising and writing In Deep (subsequently developed with Paul Haggis for the USA network), the first two episodes of the the first series of the Emmy award winning Waking the Dead, BAFTA award winning Sea of Souls, and the first episodes of Inspector Lynley with original storylines.

As a journalist he has written regularly for various newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, New Statesman, The Daily Beast, Politico, The New Republic and was nominated for several awards for his coverage of the phone hacking trial in London, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in British history, recounted in his book Beyond Contempt.

He is co-author of His 2012 book, The Fall of the House of Murdoch, was described by the former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans as "a roaring great read." His account of living in the modern city, A Shout in the Street (Faber & Faber, 1990), was called "a dream of a book" by John Berger. He lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE: THE UNTOLD STORY. Weeks before the phone hacking trial begins in
October 2013 the Daily Telegraph commentator Peter Oborne bills it as ‘the
trial of the century.’ Yet it has taken almost the whole of the century so
far to arrive, two years since the closure of the News of the World
CHARGES. Full list of the charges and particulars facing IAN EDMONDSON,
REBEKAH BROOKS, ANDREW COULSON, STUART KUTTNER, CLIVE GOODMAN, CHERYL
CARTER, CHARLES BROOKS and MARK HANNA. The various charges may be
summarised as hacking, bribing and hiding evidence
LEGAL TEAMS. Prosecution: Andrew Edis QC, Mark Bryant-Heron QC. Rebekah
Brook: Jonathan Laidlaw QC. Andrew Coulson: Timothy Langdale QC. Stuart
Kuttner: Jonathan Caplan QC. Clive Goodman: David Spens QC. Cheryl Carter:
Trevor Burke QC. Charles Brooks: Neil Saunders. Mark Hanna: William Clegg
QC
1. NOT WAR AND PEACE. We get the full story about the phone hacking trial,
such as the unreported pre-trial hearings at Southwark Crown Court. The
defence teams argue that under human rights law, the prosecution should not
reveal an affair between two defendants: Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks
2. PASSION AND PREJUDICE. The judge, Justice Saunders, a leading advocate
of live coverage of criminal trials and ‘open justice', allows reporters to
live tweet proceedings. He says: 'In this case in a way not only are the
defendants on trial, but British justice is on trial'
3. SEX, LIES AND VOICEMAIL. The jury hears the News of the World hacked
Sven-Goran Eriksson, Faria Alam, Andy Gilchrist, David Blunkett, Kimberly
Quinn, Delia Smith, Wayne Rooney, Patricia Tierney, Laura Rooney, Tessa
Jowell, David Mills, Lord Prescott, Mark Oaten, Paul McCartney, Heather
Mills
4. DEMOLITION JOB. The trial is taken deep inside the machinery of the News
of the World: the paper paid private investigator and phone hacker Glenn
Mulcaire £100,000 a year. Court 12 hears from witness Andy Gadd, another
private investigator or ‘trace agent’ employed by News of the World
5. MISTRIAL OF THE CENTURY. The long trial is under strain. Jurors take
time off for doctor appointments and funerals. Stuart Kuttner, who has
suffered a heart attack and a brain stem stroke since the hacking scandal
broke, is rarely in the dock. Clive Goodman suffers from heart problems
6. I’LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT. The judge overturns defence objections to
rule the jury can hear from News of the World reporter turned prosecution
witness, Dan Evans. Hollywood actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller will
testify about the impact of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers
7. HOSTILE WITNESS. The courts hears how Wapping was rife with hacking.
Among the many victims of Glenn Mulcaire, police found evidence in his logs
and notebooks that he had gone after the phone call voicemails of senior
editors at News International, including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks
8. THE OFFICE CAT. After months of anticipation among defendants and
journalists, Daniel Evans, phone hacking star reporter at the Sunday Mirror
then News of the World steps into the witness box on 27 January 2014. He
says even the office cat at Rupert Murdoch's Sunday newspaper knew about
its hacking
9. INTERLUDE: THE TRIAL THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. After the prosecution rests
its case on 5 February after 13 weeks of evidence. Unbeknownst to the jury
who are sent home, the defence teams begin a concerted attempt to throw out
the trial, arguing that there is no case to answer. They fail
10. HOLDING COURT. Rebekah Brooks, former News of the World and Sun editor,
now chief executive of News International, gives evidence. She is flawless.
Jukes says: 'If it was a carefully scripted performance (as Andrew Edis QC
later implied) it was the performance of her life.'
11. ROGUE MALE. Wracked by ill-health, Clive Goodman enters the witness box
to deny allegations he corrupted public officials while Royal Editor of the
News of the World. 'By 2005, Coulson was chastising him for being ‘way off
the pace’ and telling him to ‘find a means to get into the young royals'
12. COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE. Goodman is taken ill during cross-examination. With
Goodman unable to give evidence, the trial hears from three Operation Sacha
defendants: Cheryl Carter, Charlie Brooks and Mark Hanna, accused of
conspiracy to pervert the course of justice of the hacking cases
13. LAST MAN STANDING. It's 14 April 2014 and Andrew Coulson gives
evidence. Like Like Brooks’ lawyer before him, Coulson’s, Langdale, starts
with a biographical sketch, then goes through every jot of the Crown’s
evidence. He cannot remember many things "at this distance"
14. ROUTE TO VERDICT. The judge tells the jury the legal issues for six
counts. This ‘route to verdict’ is essentially a flow diagram of the
logical steps in assessing each count and defendant. A model of clarity, it
shows the jury the hurdles they will have to clear to reach a guilty
verdict
15. BACK IN THE BOX. The collapse of part of the trial is narrowly averted
when Goodman returns from a bout of pneumonia. In 2007, he says there
'‘wasn’t a significant story in the News of the World for the last two
years that wasn’t the result’ of phone hacking
16. TRUTH'S BOOTS. The tannoy sounds in the Old Bailey: 'All parties in
Brooks and others to Court 12.' After seven months, this is the moment of
truth. You could hear a pin drop as the defendants, barristers, journalists
and the public at the 'Trial of the Century' hear the jury's verdicts
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Thanking David Hencke, Dominic Ponsford, Meirion Jones,
Paul Cheston, Eliot Higgins, Nico Hines, Harry Evans, Brian Cathcart, Tom
Latchem, Mike Giglio, Marian Wilkinson, Helen Lewis, Louise Roug, Stefan
Stern, Angela Haggerty, David Donovan, Jeremy Vine, Mark Williams Thomas
INDEX. A full index of the hacking case including defendants and witnesses.
The As are: A Comedy of Errors, A Few Good Men, Actus reus, Akers Sue, Alam
Faria, Allen Lily, Angiogram, Article 8 ECHR, Asprey Helen, Associated
Press, Attorney General
SUPPORTERS. A list of the crowdfunders who funded Peter Jukes's reporting
of the phone hacking in this book. Jukes separately crowdfunded his
live-tweeting of the case at the Old Bailey in London – the first such
funding of the live reporting of a UK criminal trial, at the start of the
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