Beware Of Murdoch Employees Bearing Gifts

Murdoch and Company are completely disgusting.

In July 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was abducted and murdered by a man named Roy Whiting. Her mother, Sara, considered News of the World “a friend and ally” during the investigation, and had an especially close relationship with Brooks, then the paper’s editor-in-chief. In fact, it was so close that Brooks gave Payne a cell phone “to help her stay in touch with her supporters.”

You can guess where this is going. Scotland Yard now apparently has evidence that the phone Payne received was hacked by Glen Mulcaire, the private investigator employed by the tabloid. (Initially, the police had denied that Payne was a target; they now believe that details in Mulcaire’s notebooks refer to her.)

Jail time is too good for the lot of them, but it may be where they’re headed.

Tom Watson, one of the MPs who grilled James and Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, has said there will be more phone hacking revelations “that shock the nation”.

He told Sky News that he did not know where the scandal would end for News International.

Asked whether he thought it was unfortunate that allegations continue to drip out before the public inquiry has begun, Watson replied: “News International have had to be forced at every point to admit things have happened … and generally [they’re] having to have things dragged out of them.”

Watson added that he would be asking the Commons culture, media and sport select committee to recall James Murdoch, former News of the World editor Colin Myler and the paper’s former legal manager Tom Crone.

The MP said contradictory statements made to the committee still needed to be clarified, particularly with regard to the ‘For Neville’ email, which contained evidence that hacking was more widespread that one rogue reporter.

Wanna bet that, when push comes to shove, Rupert throws his son under bus to save his own neck?  I do.