dennis rice | The Criminal Media Nexus

By popular demand I will be posting some of the threats from Dennis Rice, a former NOTW and Mail on Sunday journalist, directed my way throughout the hacking trial, as I sketched out briefly in a couple of paragraphs of Beyond Contempt. In the version serialised by the Press Gazette before the book went to the presses, there was one minor error of chronology which was corrected in a day. Why this minor error matters so much to Guido Fawkes will become apparent when I collate the tweets (not a pleasant task so give me a couple of days).

But much of the context is explained below in an extensive blog by Richard Bartholomew, which I am reproducing here by kind permission, and to save duplication.

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“So I’m now going to blog about @peterjukes & his family,” wrote Dennis Rice…

TabloidTroll wrote: “If @PeterJukes writes any shit on me in his book the gloves will really come off. Newsnight ex wife, business failures.” The fact the mother of my two children had been made a target was pretty disturbing.

UPDATE (January 2015): Peter Jukes’ book was originally published as a PDF in August 2014; it was subsequently revised and expanded for the print edition, which appeared in September. This blog entry has been updated to include extra material contained in the revised version, and to provide details of Rice’s complaint to IPSO.
Sections
Introduction
Dennis Rice as hacking victim
Dennis Rice turns on Peter Jukes
Peter Jukes “investigated”
Appendix 1: The anonymous texts
Appendix 2: Press Gazette and IPSO
Appendix 3: Is Rice TabloidTroll?
Appendix 4: Rice calls in the Police
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The first week back at the Hacking Trial in 2014 has been focused on allegations of cover-up, and specifically focused on Count 6 of the charges – that Rebekah Brooks and her PA Cheryl Carter conspired to pervert the course of justice by removing seven boxes of Brooks’ notebooks from archives on the day that Andy Coulson was arrested and the closure of the News of the World was announced.

Carter’s defence in a police interview was that she removed her own notebooks during an planned boot camp holiday for Brooks. We have heard evidence from the head of News International archives, Nick Mays, and Carter’s fellow PA Deborah Reagan.

All the defendants deny all the charges.

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