Tuesday 17 December 2013
Summary | ||
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Back at the Hacking Trial | ||
Prosecution Evidence on Stuart Kuttner | ||
Stuart Kuttner Police Interviews under caution | ||
First Stuart Kuttner Police Interview on 2 August 2011 | ||
Second Stuart Kuttner Police Interview | ||
Third Stuart Kuttner Police Interview |
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Back at the Hacking Trial | ||
Back at the #hackingtrial. Jury are told all day will be spent reading out Stuart Kuttner‘s interview “reasonably hard going” says Saunders | ||
Prosecution Evidence on Stuart Kuttner | ||
Stuart Kuttner Police Interviews under caution | ||
Bryant Heron points out that Stuart Kuttner had several taped interviews, and this is the agreed transcript | ||
First Stuart Kuttner Police Interview on 2 August 2011 | ||
First interview under caution 02/08/11 – two detectives present with Kuttner and legal representatives. Police witness reads police parts | ||
Bryant Heron reads the part of Stuart Kuttner. Kuttner’s legal representative names himself | ||
Just to explain the scenario: Weeting Detective is reading the police parts during the re-reading of the interview. Currently giving caution | ||
DC explains Operation Weeting began when the three emails were handed to Met in Jan 2011. Burton, Kuttner’s solicitor, explains his stroke | ||
Kuttner’s legal rep explains recent hospital attendance in California due to a heart attack, and consequent difficulties reading | ||
Kuttner’s legal representative explains Kuttner has memory problems since brain stem stroke in 2010. | ||
Kuttner explains during interview “I will do my best to answer your questions…. If I can’t remember I will say so” | ||
Kuttner says of the three Mulcaire emails circa 2006 “I have no information on them” | ||
Kuttner “Without sight of them I am not at all familiar….” Kuttner (in reread interview) explains his history at NOTW | ||
Kuttner took over managing editor role in late 80s: “on Fleet Street…. each managing editor carves out his or her role” | ||
“I also liaised with the police during the Wapping troubles,” Kuttner explains in a rereading of his interview, organising transport | ||
Kuttner on his NOTW role: “For quite a long time I’d do a lot of interviews…. and defend the paper’s coverage in other media.” | ||
“There were days I feel I was appointed in the 1880’s,” says Kuttner of police slip up in dates in his transcribed interview | ||
Kuttner explains he was based in Wapping until he left in 2009, with his own office, and a PA nearby | ||
Kuttner explains that there were no notes take at editorial conferences. Editor would talk about scoops. Dept heads would pitch stories | ||
Kuttner also trained journalists to the PCC Editors Code of Practice “at News International… all staff required to adhere to it” | ||
Kuttner is asked to recall his work email addresses and/or aliases while he was at News International (in rereading of interview transcript) | ||
Kuttner says he was one of the last people at NI to get his own email address circa 1999/2000. | ||
Kuttner then gives two home email addresses to detectives interviewing him in August 2011 at #hackingtrial read through | ||
Kuttner says he might have returned company laptop, but can’t remember and never used it | ||
Kuttner then goes through his PAs who had the password to his business account, so they could check his emails. | ||
Kuttner says he couldn’t access his work email until he got his Blackberry “in the last few years”. They’ve brought it in to police station | ||
Kuttner remembers his two work phone numbers. He took them with him when he left News International. | ||
Both mobiles in Kuttner’s possession in 2011 were paid for by News International, even though he’d left 2 years before. | ||
Kuttner explains his role during the run up to 2005 Elections: he went with political editor to 10 Downing St to interview Blair and Brown | ||
Kuttner says he came up with the idea of a reward for an occasion like Soham, and would go there and talk to the police about announcement | ||
Kuttner says “campaign for Sara’s law I was most intensely involved in… to make Britain safer for children. Met a lot of opposition” | ||
Kuttner says a campaign like Sarah’s Law (CORRECTION) required a lot of continuity | ||
Kuttner: “The word reporter is inscribed in my heart”: rereading of his 2011 interview at #hackingtrial | ||
Kuttner now explains the rule over NOTW expense – had to be filed within 4 weeks to desk editors, and if approved handed to Kuttner’s office | ||
“If it looked realistic I’d accept it, and pass through the accounts department,” Kuttner on NOTW expenses | ||
Kuttner confirms that editor had authority over expenses, but disputes rarely went that far. | ||
“My memory of details is impaired,” Kuttner tells Detectives during 2011 interview about contributor payment details | ||
Kuttner would check up a marked copy of the newspaper with the different quantum billings for sports, news, picture etc | ||
Kuttner says “there was a chap responsible for setting pay scales,” towards the end of his time. “That chap was Neil Wallis” | ||
“The common sense approach was through cheque or BACS,” Kuttner says of his preferred form of payments. | ||
Kuttner explains that cash payments had protocols: names, addresses and details | ||
“Ha. That’s a very good question, who’s job was it to check the accuracy,” said Kuttner on payments: mainly responsibility of journalists | ||
Detective interviewing Kuttner: “Who’s the responsibility of something procured by illegal mean?” Kuttner says the person acquiring it | ||
Kuttner explains that in contentious stories such as “Mary X is sleeping with the following men” there would be a “pre-publication inquest.” | ||
Kuttner cites NOTW corrupt cricket story: “lots of information would have been sifted before publication….” | ||
Kuttner says the pre-publication inquest wasn’t his responsibility. | ||
Kuttner tells police he’s “utterly appalled” by phone hacking “and the allegations against me personally. I spent 25 years setting standards | ||
“I’ve never knowingly bribed a policeman, which is part of your allegation, nor been knowingly involved in phone hacking.” Kuttner | ||
10 minute break | ||
Back in #hackingtrial with DC Backers reading the part of DC Fletcher interviewing Kuttner back in August 2011. | ||
Saunders tries to cut out repeat cautions from re-read evidence. | ||
Kuttner explains his resignation in 2009 was when editor (Colin Myler) asked him to take a part time role | ||
“I received a very warm and personal letter from Rupert Murdoch,” says Kuttner: “And then I left” | ||
Kuttner kept in contact with Sara Payne over Sarah’s Law after his retirement | ||
There was continuing relationship with NOTW says Kuttner “Until the devastating closure of News of the World.” | ||
“I was not there, but the relationship was maintained,” says Kuttner of the NOTW after departure in 2009, that’s why he kept two phones | ||
Kuttner was also chairman and trustee of a NI pension fund. He stood down from that when NOTW closed and medical issues in summer 2010 | ||
DC Fletcher asked Kuttner about Brooks: “the direct work relationship was a long time ago…” | ||
“She was a very able newspaperwoman.” says Kuttner of Rebekah Brooks. | ||
“I can’t recollect,” says Kuttner of Brooks’ editorship of NOTW: “Very difficult to tell…. what… ten years ago.” | ||
“In terms of working with Rebekah, I liked her….” says Kuttner of Brooks: “and she could not be faulted in terms of her commitment” | ||
Kuttner talks about Brooks and the ‘Beast of Bodmin’ story: “her intuition…. saved the paper. She’s intuitively strong.” | ||
“One of the reasons it sticks in my mind (the Beast of Bodmin inquisition) was that it was very unusual,” Kuttner says | ||
Kuttner says he went to Brooks’ first wedding and knew Ross Kemp. They’d chat – for example on her frustration at not being editor of Sun | ||
Kuttner saw a lot of Brooks on the Sarah’s Law campaign. DC Fletcher asks about his connections with the deputy editor. | ||
“I’m not in that chain of command,” Kuttner says of editor, deputy, desk heads: “I don’t fit into anything.” | ||
Kuttner cannot recall Brooks’ email address. He would speak to her on the phone about a staff matter “It could be anything…” | ||
Matters of non attendance of staff might be brought to Kuttner’s attention, and he would inform Brooks. | ||
“The only contact I’ve had with Rebekah… was a few days ago, with the news Sara Payne’s phone was hacked,” says Kuttner | ||
“I’m preparing a draft statement… it’s all in hand,” said Brooks to Kuttner (according to interview) about the hacking of Sara Payne | ||
Kuttner says he probably last had email contact with Brooks around his farewell dinner in 2010 | ||
“There was a lot of emailing, there’s a lot of it going on… sometimes you think what has this got to do with me….” Kuttner of NI comms | ||
“There’s a tradition in newspapers where you cascade down,” says Kuttner of command structure at NOTW when editor or deputy away | ||
Kuttner says Brooks “Rebekah was rightfully concerned with whatever was going on, but I don’t think I’d call her ‘hands on’.” | ||
Kuttner has no knowledge of Brooks knowledge of phone hacking. Denies conspiring with her over phone hacking | ||
Kuttner denies there was a culture of “get the story at any cost” at NOTW | ||
Another Weeting Detective asks whether managing editor was an ‘executive position’: Kuttner sounds unsure; says ‘senior position’ | ||
“At budgeting time I would have discussed the budget with her,” says Kuttner but he can’t remember any specific detail “It was years ago” | ||
“Every editor is different, every editor is individual:” Kuttner says of Brooks’ tenure at NOTW but “cannot say with certaintly” any detail | ||
“It’s possible I…. listed some contracts… about the value,” says Kuttner of his discussions with Brooks. | ||
“I am frustrated, and frustrated at being here at the centre of these unfounded accusations.” Kuttner | ||
“I liked Andy. Competive, astute,” says Kuttner on Coulson. | ||
“He was significantly involved in early days…. there at the beginning of Sara’s Law campaign. He had enthusiasm…” Kuttner on Coulson | ||
“He was better at lunching with people than some people. He was closer to people. My wife went to theatre with his wife” Kuttner on Coulson | ||
“Crikey. A long time ago.” Kuttner last spoke to Coulson “when he was at the Conservative Party and was getting a lot of negative coverage” | ||
Kuttner says he offered to help Coulson. Kuttner thinks the number is still stored on one phone as ‘AC’ and another as “Coulson’ | ||
On Coulson’s resignation; “Goodman’s conduct happened on his watch…. Les Hinton…. accepted it with reluctance,” says Kuttner | ||
“Are you sure this is absolutely necessary?” Kuttner asked of Coulson. They discussed how “appalling” the phone hacking was | ||
Kuttner says the arrest of Goodman “was the most traumatic day of my life.” And says his arrest is “traumatic” | ||
“I think he was a popular editor, and people were disappointed he decided to go,” says Kuttner of Coulson | ||
Kuttner explains his role with Neil Wallis: “much more involved in content of paper… then very much involved in consultancy operation” | ||
Wallis was a “meetings and projects person” says Kuttner. “Myler wanted a new deputy, and Wallis became executive… 2008ish” | ||
Kuttner’s contact with Wallis would “be about money” and the “changes in working practices” suggested by management consultants | ||
Kuttner says Wallis came when Coulson became editor. “I knew of him and he knew of me…. only social encounters, Holocaust education trust” | ||
Kuttner cannot remember much about Goodman. First a freelance, and then on staff. Given Royal Reporter or editor, maybe News editor. | ||
“Perhaps I had more to do with Clive than other journalists… I had some very good Royal contacts,” says Kuttner of Goodman | ||
“I picked him up from the police station and took him home,” says Kuttner of Goodman’s arrest in the summer of 2006 | ||
“He popped into my office from time to time, with cash or dockets,” says former NOTW Managing Ed Kuttner of Clive Goodman | ||
“I wasn’t his line manager, but I noticed he wouldn’t stir himself.” Brooks wanted Goodman to come to Paris but he wouldn’t | ||
Kuttner went with Wallis (for the Sun) and Brooks on a 17 hour journey to Paris chasing up a story about Duchess of York and Johnnie Bryant | ||
Kuttner on Goodman says “he on the whole wouldn’t stir himself” so Kuttner had to go to Paris instead | ||
Kuttner says Goodman’s “amounts were out of kilter” from his stories: “About quantum, rather than anything else.” | ||
Kuttner was not aware of any contracts with outside investigators set up by Goodman | ||
“I don’t think so, no” Kuttner says on the authority for contracts: “It’s possible I might have overseen the contracts” | ||
“I didn’t know… I didn’t know…. I didn’t know till Goodman’s arrest it was possible to interrogate phone messages on phones” Kuttner | ||
Kuttner confirms he did phone Goodman on a “hot story” about Prince and Princess of Wales were going to separate with an intermediary | ||
“It was a hot, hot story… and Friday night was the ideal time,” says Kuttner of Princess Diana story. | ||
“Did I know (Goodman) was working with him (Mulcaire)…. I might have known before, but I was first aware when he was arrested.” Kuttner | ||
Kuttner remembers the Alexander cash payments because they “had to dig them out” when Goodman was arrested in 2006 | ||
“Clive Goodman was inventing people,” says Kuttner of Goodman’s payments to Mulcaire through false name. “We trusted the staff,” he says | ||
“If you find out, as I found out, that you’re deceived by Goodman, you’re very angry.” says Kuttner: | ||
“He can’t be the final signatory, absolutely not,” says Kuttner of Goodman. “But he’s not the best example…. he held a high position.” | ||
“Other people would have to go through news editor or feature editor before they reached the managing editors office,” Kuttner on payments | ||
Kuttner “can’t say for certainty” about Mulcaire Goodman contract “but I can’t recall any knowledge of it.” | ||
To accusation he should have known about Mulcaire: “I think the answer to that is no…. you trust senior people.” | ||
Kuttner says to questions of involvement in phone hacking, tasking, or intercepting royal household; “Absolutely not” | ||
Kuttner cannot recall any involvement in Goodman’s dismissal either pre-trial or during conviction. | ||
Kuttner said previously he’d been on a dismissal’s appeal panel, but not to do with Clive Goodman. | ||
“I think he claimed that everyone from the editor down knew of phone hacking” says Kuttner of Goodman’s dismissal claims. | ||
“Completely and utterly false claim,’ says Kuttner of Goodman’s allegations of widespread phone hacking at NOTW in 2007 | ||
“I can’t recall any involvement” in Goodman’s dismissal appeal, or subsequent investigations by News International to investigate in 2007 | ||
Kuttner says; “I have some good Royal Contacts but I will never disclose them….” Laughts: the source of Diana divorce was not Royal Source | ||
Kuttner was concerned at the volume of Goodman’s cash payments: “my impression was his were pretty regular” | ||
“The show business guy also had a lot of contacts,” different areas required more cash payments than others says Kuttner in police interview | ||
Kuttner says he would have no further idea about the identities of source other than the names on the dockets. | ||
Kuttner cannot understand why Goodman created a new identity for Mulcaire, if paid elsewhere. | ||
Kuttner recalls another contract named at Parliamentary Committee in 2008/9 but in another name suggested by “NOTW person” | ||
“The informants name was not his true name,” recalls Kuttner of one instance. “There’s not a policy,” of pseudonymity, “but it would go on” | ||
Kuttner says the greatest bulk of payments have their names and addresses logged – false names an exception | ||
“I was also shaken by the deception of myself, the editor, and the News of the World,” says Kuttner of Goodman’s Alexander payments | ||
Second Stuart Kuttner Police Interview | ||
Two weeks later: another Kuttner interview: police role read by DC Backers. Stuart Kuttner played by Mark Bryant Heron | ||
In this later interview Stuart is quizzed about his Blackberry handset and whether other people used it. He used persona and NI email addys | ||
Kuttner agrees he was NI’s “the head man” when it came to the payments that would end up in the accountants system in Peterborough | ||
Kuttner says he “didn’t decide to be old fashioned” but liked things on paper such a payment requests over £1000k | ||
Back after this wretched @twitter lockout. Always happens when there’s more to tweet! Saved drafts now reposted | ||
Back with #hackingtrial and Kuttner’s police interviews: with DC Backers reading role of detectives and Bryant Heron reading part of Kuttner | ||
Kuttner says payments above £50k were very rare, but would go even further up the tree. | ||
Kuttner says “that once we get into thousands rather hundreds” on payments “the editor would get involved” | ||
Kuttner said it would involve the editor and the department head if the “buy” was big enough. | ||
“It could be £15k, it could be £5k, it could be £2k” provoking a discussion with editor over a picture buy, says Kuttner in police interview | ||
“So who makes the decision?” Kuttner “Let me help you. There might be some misconception” Kuttner compares himself with a church manager | ||
“They would go ahead, and you’d have to accept that?” asks detective. “Absolutely,” replies Kuttner of power of editors over managing editor | ||
Sun publisher posts £75m pre-tax loss http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/17/sun-publisher-loss-news-group-newspapers … | ||
Kuttner is asked about his bonus, and what it might be in relation to: “I don’t know,” says Kuttner: “I don’t want to speculated….” | ||
“I do recall it was…. a short letter. This is your bonus.” That’s all Kuttner can recall in police interview about bonuses at NOTW | ||
Sometimes, rarely, Kuttner would recommend someone else for a bonus. But usually it was the editor’s remit. | ||
Kuttner might recommend a bonus because of outstanding story or picture scoop. | ||
Kuttner explains the expenses system, sometimes claims, sometimes on an ‘advance docket’. He didn’t like late claims | ||
Kuttner says he would “have knowledge” of cash payments to contributors. Meetings were not minuted or recorded in regard to finances | ||
Kuttner says his bonuses “weren’t city bonuses, unfortunately”: around £10k to £15k. | ||
Kuttner is asked by a police detective about medical problems relating to his memory, ever since his heart attack and brain stem stroke | ||
Kuttner: “I’m answering your questions as best I can… I cannot invent….” Detective: “No, I’m not asking you to speculate” | ||
“Is the reason you don’t know the passage or time or your medical condition?” asks Detective of Kuttner during interview: “As my doctors.” | ||
“It’s not even there. I can’t retrieve it,” says Kuttner pointing to his head. Has to be explained police interview has no CCTV only voice | ||
Justice Saunders notes of Kuttner interview there is a “long section on why he doesn’t know why he doesn’t know” | ||
Kuttner is asked about guidance for his particular role: “if so, I’m not aware of it…. If there was a manual, I wasn’t aware of it” | ||
Kuttner says he can’t recall standard operating procedures or risk assessments of any of NOTW journalists. | ||
DC Fletcher led this second Kuttner interview in August 2011, now covering fallout from Goodman’s dismissal | ||
Police interviewer now moves onto Glenn Mulcaire: “I really don’t know very much about him… he had a contract over several years” | ||
“I don’t really know much about that,” Kuttner on Mulcaire’s role as a ‘inquiry agent’ who was a ‘regular freelance’ | ||
Kuttner can’t recall how long Mulcaire worked for NOTW | ||
Kuttner can remember Mulcaire was paid around £100k plus a year for his services as this was more economically effective | ||
Kuttner remembers it being more “cost effective” to put Mulcaire on contract, but can’t remember who approved that. | ||
Kuttner remembers Mulcaire worked with Miskiw, and then the news that emerged that he worked with Goodman | ||
Kuttner agrees £100k was a lot of money, but can’t say it was a lot of money in regard to the services he was providing, what he didn’t know | ||
Kuttner doesn’t know who put the new contract in place: “possibly by me, I don’t know.” | ||
“In the wake of the Goodman affair, I discovered he’d been paid as Nine Consultants Ltd,” says Kuttner of Mulcaire. Also aware of Alexander | ||
Kuttner doesn’t know if Mulcaire’s contract was exclusive, or whether he had any other contract with another member of News International | ||
“If such had come to light….they would have been challenged” says Kuttner of possibility of Mulcaire billing through another NI paper | ||
Kuttner on exclusivity explains that individual writer could offer a story not accepted by NOTW “to another non rival newspaper” | ||
“Pretty chunky sum of money for anybody,” says Kuttner of Mulcaire’s annual £100k payments | ||
“I’m familiar with the name Mulcaire after all that’s ensued,’ says Kuttner in 2011 interview, now being read out in #hackingtrial | ||
“I think I was informed,” says Kuttner of Mulcaire’s contract. As for anyone else other than Miskiw and Goodman knowing: “I’m not aware.” | ||
“I back in this area of avoiding speculation,” speaking of Mulcaire’s cash payments coming through his office | ||
“I don’t believe so…. ” says Kuttner of speaking to Mulcaire: “I don’t recollect doing so. But if I did, I did,” | ||
Kuttner says he might have spoken with Mulcaire – “this is pure speculation” but “if he says he did I wouldn’t deny it.” | ||
“To the best of knowledge, no.” Kuttner says of the attending social functions with Mulcaire | ||
Kuttner is asked how Mulcaire information was validated? Kuttner uses examples of photos or sworn affidavits. | ||
“The source of the story might be the very personal at the heart of the story,” says Kuttner of how NOTW’s stories | ||
When asked whether an editor would want ‘hard evidence” Kuttner says “it’s not as easy as that” but still agrees need for ‘hard proof’ | ||
“I’m afraid…. Clive Goodman deceived the newspaper,” says Stuart Kuttner about the payments to Mulcaire for hacking Royal aide phones | ||
“Not that I can recollect,” says Kuttner of tasking Mulcaire, or becoming involved with any story involving him him | ||
Ten minute break | ||
Third Stuart Kuttner Police Interview | ||
Back with #hackingtrial and the reading out of Stuart Kuttner‘s third interview, he played by prosecutor, Weeting Detective playing another | ||
Saunders to Jury: “Bad news is we’ve got a long way to go. Good news is we can start on page seven” | ||
Kuttner is asked if ‘Paul Williams’ means anything to him. Kuttner says “yes” and remembers DCMS inquiry mentioning it meant Mulcaire | ||
Kuttner cannot remember another Mulcaire pseudonyms “Jane Street, John Jenkins, Matey” – “I handle a lot of documents” | ||
Kuttner asked what his response to a “Matey” invoice: “Goodman being a very senior chap…. I might just have signed it off.” | ||
Kuttner asked (in 2011 interview) again about ‘Alexander’ payments: “he does have a recollection… and now knows it was Mulcaire” | ||
“It all comes back to the person producing the docket. If it was someone who’d been…. a news editor… I would have approved it” Kuttner | ||
Kuttner cannot recall being involved in the legal dispute with Goodman/Mulcaire and NI – Cloke and Crone would have dealt with that. | ||
Kuttner says he remembers “firming up protocols in terms of cash payments” after Goodman/Mulcaire arrests and convictions | ||
Renewed contracts were sent to ‘inquiry agents’ who worked for NOTW after Goodman/Mulcaire conviction in 2006 | ||
Kuttner is asked about hacking of Max Clifford and Gordon Taylor: he can’t help on that because he wasn’t involved | ||
Kuttner explains his long term knowledge of Miskiw from Evening News. They both arrived at NOTW around about the same time. | ||
Kuttner says Miskiw’s move to Manchester “might have been for domestic reasons”. Investigations Unit set up a while before | ||
Investigations Unit covering drug smuggling, murder suspects, could last month tying up journalists and reporters for a long time | ||
Kuttner can’t remember if there was a new contract for Miskiw’s role as head of Investigations Unit – a small number in a small room, 2-4 | ||
Kuttner’s day to day contact was the same as most people – not always day to day, probably spoke most about money | ||
Kuttner thinks Miskiw reported direct to the editor when running the investigations unit for NOTW | ||
“We trusted our staff,” says Kuttner of the controls historically kept on NOTW journalists. | ||
Kuttner on Miskiw: “sometimes him and his team took a long time producing material…. he became very intense about his material” | ||
Kuttner on Miskiw: “He was passionate…. and this kind of problem can become a problem.” | ||
“Competition in a newspaper office, perish the thought!” Kuttner laughs in police interview in response to questions about culture of NOTW | ||
“I’m not saying there were no issues. I’m saying I can’t recall any issues”: Kuttner on Miskiw’s request for payments. | ||
“All these positions are…. empowering positions,” Kuttner on new editors. | ||
Kuttner on Neville Thurlbeck: “he was involved in most the major stories…. one or two he was involved in, I got involved in.” | ||
Kuttner recalls the Mark Oaten story, and that Kuttner should add weight to Thurlbeck’s allegation that Oaten led a double life | ||
Kuttner recalls Thurlbeck’s time as chief reporter: he would occasionally seek advice. He went Oaten’s house on cold winter’s morning | ||
Kuttner remembers the ‘For Neville’ document emerging in parliament and assumed connection between Thurlbeck and Mulcaire then | ||
Kuttner said he never socially mixed with NOTW except at Christmas parties etc. | ||
Kuttner says that Miskiw did attend news conferences at NOTW, both as news editor and head of investigations unit. | ||
Kuttner spoke to a former NOTW journalist who cannot be named for legal reasons when staying down in Mevagissey in Cornwall | ||
Kuttner is now asked about James Weatherup – senior reporter and news editor. “I had a respect for him as a senior journalist” | ||
“I sometimes knew what he was doing because some of his enterprises were quite costly,” says Kuttner on Weatherup, and cites Spenser story | ||
Kuttner is asked about Weatherups phone numbers, and his connections with Mulcaire – can’t remember | ||
Kuttner vehemently denies being involved with any conspiracy to hack phone messages with Weatherup | ||
Memorandum by Goodman to Phil Hall with credits and payments for ‘Matey’ in 1998 for background information on page lede | ||
BREAKING: first Goodman mention of codename for Mulcaire – Matey – in email to Phil Hall in 1998 | ||
Kuttner shown by police the Miskiw/Mulcaire contract for 2001 for “Euro Research” | ||
Kuttner has “no recollection” of the Mulcaire contract in his police interview, being read out in Court 12 of Old Bailey | ||
Kuttner recognises the Miskiw signature in 2002 Mulcaire contract. | ||
BREAKING: Kuttner asked about such high value Mulcaire contract in 2002 “I would expect his was approved by then editor” |
Note: All the defendants deny all the charges. The trial continues.
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