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00:00Previously on the hack, think who edited the paper.
00:05Think about where he sits now.
00:07I mean, I know Andy Coulson.
00:08But him sitting next to the Prime Minister,
00:10that's wrong in every way.
00:11The police have Mulcair's notebooks.
00:13If we can get them into the public eye,
00:15we'll see who hired who, how high this goes,
00:17who was being hacked.
00:18Just be safe with yourself.
00:20Just be safe.
00:21It's the Daniel Morgan case.
00:23We've had some witnesses finally come forward.
00:25You cannot be taking phone calls from a protected witness
00:29from today you will have no further contact with Gary Eden whatsoever.
00:33Max, we've got them on the rack.
00:34You've settled, the whole thing gets covered up again.
00:36You've got them on the rack. With what?
00:38The Murdochs agreed to pay Clifford more than a million pounds.
00:41Our biggest gun was spiked.
00:47Our Liberal Conservative government will take Britain
00:50in a historic new direction.
00:52A direction of hope and unity, conviction and common purpose.
00:56I'm delighted to be standing here with the new Deputy Prime Minister.
01:01And I would like now to invite him to speak to us
01:04on what I think is a remarkable and very welcome day.
01:09Thank you, David.
01:10We've just been through an election campaign
01:13and now we have a coalition.
01:15Until today, we were rivals.
01:18It is unusual.
01:19It will cost you all that work given to someone else's byline.
01:25I'm finding it a little bit hard to get my head around.
01:28Look.
01:29The BBC are playing it on repeat.
01:31I've watched it 15 times. It was sickening the first time.
01:34Andy Coulson now sits at the right-hand side of God.
01:37There's a direct link between Number 10 and Murdoch.
01:40I don't like that whisper chain. We need our...
01:42We need our own coalition.
01:44We need allies.
01:45We have allies.
01:46I'm assembling a huge team of lawyers.
01:48People are working together.
01:49We need allies in the press.
01:51Yeah, I think I've tried. Nobody will touch it.
01:55Um...
01:56Well, they weren't on Fleet Street, but...
01:59I've always thought a lot of Glen Campbell.
02:02I think Panorama will bite.
02:04No, no, no. The BBC won't risk a battle with Murdoch.
02:06Well, then there's Dispatches, maybe,
02:08and internationally, Bill Keller.
02:11You can't think the New York Times would want to be involved.
02:14Murdoch's hold on the Wall Street Journal is galling to Bill.
02:17I think he could...
02:18Well, I've got resources, of course, but...
02:21Alan, they won't share back.
02:24TV hacks, man, the New York Times.
02:26This will always be your story, Nick.
02:29No, it's bigger than that.
02:31Me.
02:33Oh, I can't make friends at school. Why not a pen pal?
02:38I get it.
02:39Yeah.
02:43Yeah, I get it.
02:44It's a good idea.
02:45It's a necessary idea.
02:50Good.
02:52So, Nick Davis and The Guardian are losing the exclusive,
02:55but winning the war.
02:58Steve?
02:59Yeah.
03:00I'm aware that it has taken a few years to get to this point,
03:13and many of us are eager to draw these pretrial hearings to a close.
03:30But I'm afraid a new matter has arisen that requires our attention.
03:35Last night, an application was made by the counsel for the defendants
03:40as regards a possible irregularity in the conduct of this investigation
03:44in relation to the prosecution witness, Mr. Gary Eaton.
03:50In order to resolve this, it is my view that we must spend some time
03:54hearing evidence directly from DCS David Cook and the officers in his team,
04:00which will begin on Monday.
04:08These rules are ridiculous.
04:10They are tight on this one.
04:11No conferring me colleagues.
04:13I may not work with these officers day in, day out.
04:15They don't want you to prepare, basically.
04:17It's known as an ambush defense.
04:18And they want me to tell them everything about Gary Eaton.
04:21But the suspects are sitting right there.
04:23Look, if the judge does decide to lose Gary Eaton's evidence,
04:27it would be a significant setback.
04:30Oh, losing Gary Eaton would be a fucking disaster.
04:34So we do what the judge tells us to.
04:37All you have to do is answer the questions.
04:39Dave will be fine.
04:41He's good in the spotlight.
04:43And while you sit in the spotlight, boy scout behavior.
04:46Day in, day out. Agreed?
04:48The defense could put you under surveillance.
04:50They could track your car, your phone.
04:52They'd love nothing more than to catch you out.
04:54These men have been under arrest for over a year.
04:59This is a fucking farce.
05:00Nothing to do with truth.
05:01Nothing to do with justice.
05:05We do the best we can within the system we've got.
05:17What do you call three Pulitzer Prize winners sitting in a row?
05:20A murder? An ambush? An armada?
05:24Do you really call them help?
05:27This is, uh, quite something.
05:29It's remarkable journalism, Nick.
05:32Any sense they're doing it in America, too?
05:34A few suspected names. Nothing firm. It's all in there.
05:39You have no one on record from News of the World?
05:41No.
05:42But plenty off the record. Am I right?
05:45She's trying to get you to reveal who your Mr. Apollo is.
05:48Oh, I see. You think he's a News International insider.
05:51Interesting.
05:53Um, but no, not sharing.
05:55And frankly, even if I wanted to, he's disappeared.
05:58Do you have an angle, the...
06:01your paper?
06:02You know, Bill's instincts were, uh, royal family, Murdoch's, press intrusion.
06:06In that order.
06:07We'll find our way.
06:08It's important no one can say that we colluded with you,
06:10or we're babyfed just to stand your story up.
06:13You're not here to stand my story.
06:15I wasn't saying that.
06:16The idea is we further each other's stories.
06:18Anything new we get, we know you're the keeper of the flame.
06:22We'll bring you in.
06:25Might say likewise, but I've given you all I have.
06:27I don't know when this started, either.
06:53Um, you might get a call from the New York Times in the next two days.
07:12New York Times? Fancy.
07:14They're getting involved, we're giving them what we have.
07:17Two newspapers are better than one.
07:20You know, Nick, when I look at the kids who come round for play dates,
07:24I instinctively know who are good at sharing and who aren't, and you...
07:29Alan thinks it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea.
07:31You aren't very good at sharing at all. Why are you?
07:33I'm not done.
07:35They'll do their thing.
07:37It actually makes it easier to pursue.
07:41Now, I was actually quite good at football as a kid,
07:44so that's what I would have done at your play date.
07:46I'd have found a ball and kicked it. I didn't care about toys.
07:48Anyway, I have an idea.
07:50So, Harry Evans wrote in his memoir about a plane crash.
07:54I don't know Harry Evans.
07:56Editor of the Sunday Times, from 1967 to 81.
07:59Newspaper legend.
08:00Doesn't that mean he worked for Murdoch?
08:01Oh, they didn't get on.
08:02Murdoch fired him.
08:03Eventually. Actually, first he promoted him,
08:05gave him editorship of the Times, but that's not...
08:07And he's the hero in this story.
08:08I haven't told the story.
08:09Well, your eyes imply he's the hero.
08:10So, DC-10 in Paris, a passenger jet,
08:13there was clearly a problem with the manufacture of the plane,
08:16but Harry couldn't print.
08:17Without evidence?
08:18Exactly.
08:19So, Harry got his reporters to intervene,
08:21linked the bereaved families with highly effective lawyers
08:24in the US because US courts were more likely
08:26to order McDonnell Douglas to disclose internal paperwork.
08:30My plan is to do the same.
08:31Haven't we already tried that with Max Clifford?
08:33No, no. Then you involved me, in your case, very kindly.
08:37Now I'm going to recruit for you.
08:40So, they bribed Max.
08:42They won't be able to stop an army of people.
08:45If I can get a list of the hat,
08:47encourage them to come forward, we can flood the courts.
08:53I can't see you as a footballer.
08:55Fuck off.
08:56Look, Andy Coulson created a culture at the News of the World.
08:59To prove he did so, we need to get as many of his top journalists
09:02implicated as possible.
09:03Mulcair's notes had Clive Goodman's name written
09:06at the top's court record.
09:08So if we can find the other editors who commissioned him...
09:12Come on.
09:13It's time to get nuclear, don't you think?
09:17The inevitable dig followed.
09:19I had to identify, with the help of my furry friend,
09:22every celebrity politician and sports star they'd gone after.
09:25High-ranking, the low-ranking.
09:27The illustrious, the audacious.
09:29And then, I had to persuade those people to fight,
09:33like MP Tessa Jowell.
09:35Yes, I have been spoken to by the police.
09:37All the dirt they had on your ex-husband came from hacking.
09:40And ruined my marriage, I am aware.
09:42I'd like to publish an article about your experiences,
09:45and I'd like you to consider pursuing it further in court.
09:48I have good lawyer recommendations.
09:49But that would mean staring it up.
09:51We've struggled enough.
09:52Please, leave it alone.
09:55I had proof that Charles Clarke had been hacked.
09:58I told a friend who knew him to tell him.
10:00My friend said...
10:01He's not willing to engage.
10:02With Charlotte's help, I identified a dozen law firms
10:05who specialized in representing celebrities.
10:07I contacted all of them.
10:09I wish I could tell you their names.
10:11I'm getting nothing.
10:12Nothing?
10:13They're busy.
10:14They're worried about reviving an embarrassing story.
10:17They can't afford it, but mostly...
10:20Mostly, they're frightened.
10:23I've heard rumors about Nicole Kidman.
10:27Hello, Charlotte.
10:28Nice to meet you.
10:29A charming lawyer. How nice.
10:32Nicole's lawyer is John Kelly.
10:35Have you met John Kelly?
10:38No.
10:39She wasn't warned by the police, and no.
10:42She won't be meeting with you.
10:44Or any other journalist.
10:46Mr. Kelly, this is worth pursuing.
10:48For Nicole, for all your clients.
10:49It's still a no, I'm afraid.
10:51A hard no.
10:53Our trustees say no.
10:55Mark Thompson came about because two of his clients,
10:57one of whom was Big Brother's Jade Goody, had been hacked.
11:00Jade had died of cancer.
11:02They're not interested in pursuing a case.
11:04Perhaps I could talk to them.
11:05Because you're more persuasive than me?
11:07I get it. You're desperate.
11:11There is another... someone.
11:14I can't give you her name.
11:15We called her AZP.
11:17She's very angry.
11:19They've ruined her life.
11:20She's leaning into all this.
11:22I'd love to.
11:23Yeah, of course you fucking would.
11:25And if she's brave enough to talk more, then you'll hear more.
11:27But until then...
11:28They're just all so scared.
11:30They are profoundly scared.
11:32Mr. Cook, do you accept that a number of rules were broken with regard to Gary Eaton?
11:50I do.
11:51And the issue for the judge to decide on is the spirit in which these rules were broken.
11:57Were they broken in bad faith or was it done transparently and in the interests of justice?
12:03Those are the two sides that we are litigating at the moment.
12:07Do you understand that?
12:08Yes, I do.
12:09Let us begin with your initial meeting with Mr. Eaton.
12:15It's been suggested that you led the witness during this conversation.
12:19I think it's important for me to say that I never wanted to meet with Mr. Eaton in the first place.
12:24He insisted he would only speak with me, so I went along.
12:28And the job is to find out if he was valid.
12:31And to do that, you have to ask some probing questions.
12:34Give me the name of the brothers.
12:39That's hardly a probing question, is it, Mr. Cook?
12:44He wasn't interested in any brothers at all, was he?
12:47You gave him the brothers.
12:49I gave him the brothers. I did not give him the name of the brothers.
12:52You were aware at that first meeting of how important it was to preserve the integrity of the process?
12:59And that's what I thought we were doing. It was all recorded.
13:01And we all have the transcripts here before us, but that wasn't my question.
13:06It was a simple question.
13:12Let's try another.
13:13Do you accept that by having direct phone conversations with a witness,
13:17you were breaching the sterile corridor system?
13:20Yes, I do, but I would say that this was a particularly difficult set of circumstances.
13:26It wasn't difficult at all. All you had to do was say to this man,
13:29I'm sorry, the rules are I'm not allowed to have direct contact with you.
13:33You have your own witness protection handler, they can sort out any problems you may have,
13:37but from now on, you must not ring me, and if you do, my phone will bar you.
13:42And that is what I did on several occasions.
13:44Did you ever bar Gary Eaton from calling your phone?
13:47It's not always possible on every type of phone.
13:53Are you saying that it's not possible from a metropolitan police phone?
14:00It's a terribly simple question.
14:04He changed his number. I didn't know his number.
14:09I'd like to turn now to the issue of your note-taking.
14:15My Lord, between August the 23rd and the 16th of September 2006,
14:22not one of Mr. Cook's numerous telephone calls to Eaton appears on the schedule.
14:28Mr. Cook, do you mind telling us how it is that between the 23rd of August and the 16th of September,
14:34you managed to make so many calls without recording any of them?
14:38From memory, the vast majority, if not all, were to do with Mr. Eaton's welfare, his domestics, stuff like that, nuisance stuff.
14:47But you accept, do you not, that the court has no way of knowing what was said during these calls?
14:52I accept that. My Lord, do you mind if I sit down or suffer from vertigo?
14:57Please.
14:59Let us look at tab number nine.
15:03We can see, top line, that the debrief begins on the 1st of August.
15:09We can see that it's followed the next day by a call which is 15 minutes long.
15:14That one is logged. Then, on the 28th of August, there's a 9-minute call which is not logged.
15:21Then, on the 1st of September, Eaton suddenly changes his story.
15:25He says for the first time that he was at the scene of the murder.
15:29What are you suggesting?
15:30I'm suggesting that that may not be a coincidence, Mr. Cook.
15:35I suppose you're going to deny it and say that it is just a coincidence?
15:39You're going to deny that, during these unlogged calls, you were feeding Mr. Eaton his story?
15:45Why would I do not?
15:46This case has been causing the Metropolitan Police untold embarrassment for over two decades.
15:51You were desperate to nail someone.
15:53Of course, if you think you have somebody who may be an eyewitness, you embrace them with both arms.
15:59But you allowed this dishonest, mentally ill man to run riot over your investigation.
16:04Not only that, but you manipulated him because he was easily manipulable
16:08and because he was your one way of bringing this case back to life
16:12and ending your career with a real coup.
16:16Isn't that what has gone on here, Mr. Cook?
16:25You could not be father from Richard, sir.
16:28You could not be father from Richard, sir.
16:29I'm sorry, this is the
16:57No worries.
16:58No chance.
16:59Thanks.
17:00Can you still win?
17:03Now that we lost Gary Eaton the entire case, it rests on two witnesses.
17:08Lindsay Wright, Jimmy Cook's ex-girlfriend who was basically a fucking nightmare.
17:13And James Ward, our original Supergrass, was erratic at best.
17:20Nine days they kept me on that stand.
17:23On day one, I really thought I could win.
17:27Hoped.
17:28No, I remember hope.
17:31I'm sorry they did that to you.
17:34You didn't deserve it.
17:36Yeah, I think maybe I did.
17:39It's all about you.
17:41Can you, um, win?
17:45Journalism isn't about winning or losing, it's about the gradual erosion of self-worth.
17:52Alan's given this story to Panorama and the New York Times, and he's probably right,
17:57because I can't get anyone to go to court, which means we can't.
18:01I thought I had a way to get to Mulcair's notes.
18:06I thought I was finally getting somewhere, but like everything, I try.
18:10What about Jonathan Rhys?
18:15Surely he's just as bad as Mulcair.
18:17He's on trial, if you haven't noticed.
18:19We raided his house a few years ago.
18:22We found invoices on his desk.
18:24Rhys to Alex Maranchuk and the News of the World.
18:27Now Rhys went to prison for conspiring to pervert the course of justice,
18:30came out and went right back into the employer News of the World,
18:35while Andy Coulson was the editor.
18:37Andy Coulson?
18:39News of the World employed a convicted criminal?
18:42Now this fell into your lap, OK?
18:47You can't quote me.
18:49You can't name Rhys.
18:51But you can use this to nail them.
18:55This could get you in serious trouble.
18:58I'm already in serious trouble.
19:01So you're calling Jonathan Rees Mr. A?
19:12I think it's my best pseudonym yet.
19:14Can't name him till after the Morgan trial.
19:17It's very tenuous legally even to hide him under a pseudonym.
19:20His lawyers can claim contempt of court.
19:22Coulson being in government is a contempt.
19:25It's a good story. Does it stand out?
19:27My source is solid.
19:27Jonathan Rees was in prison for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
19:33And then he says the world rehired him.
19:36Arthur, he was released from prison while Coulson was editor.
19:39Feels a good one.
19:40We'll need to give Coulson a right of reply.
19:42Oh, this is the most archaic practice.
19:45Giving people quotes in articles against them.
19:47It's just free advertising space for their lives.
19:50I think it's necessary.
19:51If we publish his right of reply, we'll be misleading our readers.
19:54Whatever the fight, I think it's better to stick to established journalist practice, don't you?
19:58What would you know about journalism? You're a lawyer.
20:00Nick, could you maybe talk to her with a bit more respect?
20:03Oh, fuck off. With respect.
20:04Nick.
20:05Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
20:07Rufus, sorry, Jill.
20:07I know how vital you are to all this.
20:09Just busy time, busy head.
20:12I'll alert some people.
20:15Go back stairs.
20:17I know this will spread.
20:19The other newspapers, they can't ignore this.
20:21It has to.
20:21Jill?
20:24If he gets the quote from Coulson, I think we can argue public interest.
20:28I agree.
20:30This is good.
20:34Whoever your source is, this is good.
20:51Would it surprise you to know it didn't spread?
21:00All the other newspapers ignored the Mr. A story.
21:09You'll get them next time.
21:10The trouble with next time.
21:21The trouble with...
21:23You'll get them next time.
21:24I don't have a next time.
21:26You stupid child.
21:28Nicholas.
21:29Nicholas, don't be dramatic, Nicholas.
21:32Now, let's get a washcloth for that blood, shall we?
21:35I don't have a next time.
21:46Uh, Nick Davis.
21:48Nick, it's Joe Becker.
21:50New York Times.
21:51Oh, yeah.
21:52Bye.
21:53It's now not a good time.
21:55No, it's fine.
21:56How can I help?
21:57We're going to publish.
21:59Great.
22:00What?
22:01Sean Hoare is going on the record.
22:03He's a genuine insider.
22:05Oh, more than that, he's Coulson's friend.
22:07They worked the Celebrity Bazaar column that Coulson made his name on.
22:10What did he say?
22:12Well, he talked about Coulson a lot.
22:14I had a good relationship with him, as it goes.
22:18Yeah, I'm not going to do what the fuck I wanted.
22:19It's nice.
22:19I came in with a good story.
22:21The brief was, I don't give a fuck.
22:29The news of the world meetings are more fun than Guardian ones.
22:32You're not wrong.
22:34But I asked him.
22:36Did he know what's going on, Coulson?
22:38New York Times over here on this side.
22:41Yes.
22:42Oh.
22:44Why?
22:44We want to investigate whether an ethical line has been crossed.
22:48That way you sound like the Guardian.
22:49You don't think the Guardian are valid?
22:52I think the Guardian are being beautiful beings gazing down from their mighty high horses of pie as fucks.
22:58You know, but the thing about you, you see, is that you're...
23:00You're foreign.
23:05Someone like you.
23:05I personally played voicemail recordings to the Bastard when we worked together at the Sun and the Screws.
23:20You played recordings to Coulson.
23:23Sean?
23:25Is that on the record?
23:26I want a New York Mets top.
23:42I'm sorry?
23:44I want a New York Mets top, and then it's on the record.
23:49Okay.
23:51Yeah?
23:53Sure.
23:53Great.
23:57So, won't you say we go completely crazy and have another orange juice?
24:03I love an intimate party, Nick, but it is nice, don't you think?
24:17To have at least some other people who want to be there.
24:18This is the New York Times.
24:19It's going to be a lot harder to fight us both.
24:23This matters.
24:24It was an extremely good piece.
24:24It was extremely good.
24:25And what happened next?
24:26Alan was right.
24:27Alan was right.
24:28It made everybody braver.
24:29Celebrities began to look up.
24:30For instance, Charlotte Harris began to get somewhere with a client.
24:32Football agent Skye Andrews.
24:33Football agent Skye Andrews.
24:34They offered him 200,000 pounds a year, and 1.5 million dollars a year.
24:35This is the New York Times.
24:36This is the New York Times.
24:37It's going to be a lot harder to fight us both.
24:38This matters.
24:41It was an extremely good piece.
24:42It was extremely good.
24:43And what happened next?
24:44Alan was right.
24:45It made everybody braver.
24:46Celebrities began to look up.
24:47For instance, Charlotte Harris began to get somewhere with a client.
24:48Football agent Skye Andrews.
24:49They offered him 200,000 pounds a year, and 1.2 million pounds in free advertising for
25:06a charity if you drop his case.
25:07And?
25:08He said no.
25:09People were willing to fight.
25:11Most unusual people.
25:12Hi, Nick Davis.
25:13Max Mosley.
25:14I'm a fan of your work.
25:16Then Max Mosley did something extraordinary.
25:20To be clear, we didn't meet at the Guardian, but this setting will do.
25:23I'd like to back, financially, anyone wishing to bring a case against the news of the world.
25:28Indemnify them against costs and damages.
25:31Max, that could be millions.
25:33I'm guessing you saw it.
25:36Nazi sex orgy.
25:39Photos of me.
25:41It was not Nazi.
25:42It was consenting.
25:43But they didn't care.
25:45I sued.
25:47I got a small reward.
25:48I survived.
25:50My son didn't.
25:51A heroine overdose one year after the story was published.
26:01I'm sorry?
26:03They can attack us when our children are damaged.
26:07But are you sure that this is what you want to spend your fortune on?
26:14You underestimate my fortune, Mr. Davis.
26:17And my anger.
26:20The world started to unfurl before us.
26:23The strategy started to work.
26:26Allies were, well, not exactly everywhere, but gathering.
26:31And then the game changed.
26:34Mark Thompson got in touch.
26:35His client, AZP.
26:36Do you remember AZP?
26:37Well, apparently she loved the New York Times piece and the Mr. A story, and she wanted to meet.
26:43Oh, and AZP.
26:45She is.
26:46Sienna Miller.
26:47Meet Nick Davis.
26:48Pleasure to meet you.
26:50Yes.
26:51Actor.
26:52Tabloid magnet.
26:53Our ace card.
26:55He knows it's coming.
26:57Everyone's been whispering to her to stop.
26:59All of Hollywood.
27:01Some roles are being withdrawn.
27:04Others are being promised if she just lets it go.
27:07You've decided to keep fighting.
27:09They've also said they've told me that there is more muck on me they'd use, which is, I mean, probably true, but I mean, how can they print anything worse?
27:20All the papers are after her.
27:23Can I ask, Sienna, can I ask what happened?
27:28I can't go into the details.
27:31And I really don't want to pry, but what were they digging for?
27:37Seemingly, anything about me is interesting.
27:47The restaurants I go to, what I wear, people I meet.
27:53But it seems their attention was particularly grabbed by, I, um, I got, uh, I got pregnant and, um, I had a decision to make.
28:11You understand?
28:12And at that time when you're, when you're dealing with that, you need people that you can trust.
28:22And I didn't, I didn't trust anyone.
28:24I thought that they were all selling stories about me because they knew everything.
28:29And I couldn't work out why.
28:32I couldn't work out why anything I told my friends or family was being leaked.
28:39And, um, I thought, I mean, I, I started to, um, yeah.
28:49Hmm.
28:50I, uh, the number of people that I trusted grew smaller and smaller until there was almost no one at all.
29:00I didn't know which way was up. Not anymore. I, I drank too much. Did all the wrong things. Damaged my career. Damaged myself. And they feasted on it.
29:11Was this Mulcair?
29:13We don't know. We don't know who was doing what. All we know is the results of it.
29:18The thing that I was most, um, sorry about was that I, um, I damaged my family. Once it was all, um, I only basically told my mum.
29:43And they still found out. And they published and I thought it was her.
29:52And the things I said to her, you know.
29:57Must have been horrible.
30:02But I'm a celebrity. I chose all this. It's not their fault. It's in the public interest.
30:10Hmm.
30:12We're taking this all the way.
30:14Good.
30:22We're gonna have to disclose this. I'm afraid we've no choice.
30:26But I ain't done nothing.
30:28Lindsay, your entire search history is here. You can see what you searched and when you searched it.
30:33But I'm allowed to be curious, aren't I? Not against the law to be curious.
30:39Look, you're accusing Jimmy Cook of over 30 separate murders.
30:45And each time you change a statement and say you remember a new murder, it comes off the back of an internet search on how to commit that particular type of murder.
30:54Disclosing this means that we can no longer put you forward as a witness of truth.
31:01And I'm afraid, Lindsay, I'm afraid we lost the only other witness who had evidence on Jimmy.
31:08So your statement, that was all the prosecution had to go on.
31:13James Frederick William Cook. Stand, please. I direct a verdict of not guilty in respect of count one and you are now free to go.
31:28No, no, no, no, no, no. Wait for you. Oh, shit. I'm now number one target, you know that. How could you let this happen? How could you let this happen?
31:45You take sugar? Just half. And a splash of milk. Thanks.
32:06So, how long you been here then? Moved in a while ago.
32:13I know, I just have no time to... There's a sofa coming. Thanks.
32:22Yeah, I was actually pretty shocked when I heard. You and Jackie always seem solid.
32:30Yeah. Heard you and Vicki got married, that's great.
32:36We invited you to the wedding, but you never RSVP'd.
32:39Did you?
32:42I'm so sorry. It's just a... I've been busy. Frantic. Work. Life.
32:51It's what you get for having friends who are coppers. They disappear on you for years on end.
32:56So, it's still pals. But that's not why you're here. You want something.
33:05Alan Rusbridger and The Guardian have been in touch with us at Panorama. It's the hacking stuff. But there's also this story on Jonathan Rhys that they've been pushing. I know you've been on Daniel Morgan. So, Rhys is your bag, right?
33:20Look, I'm sorry. We can talk about other things. I'll take my BBC hat off. Genuinely, wanted to see you.
33:29How are you? No. Open.
33:36Oh, that's strange. A house without kids. Pretty quiet.
33:43I think I need to get better. Filling in the time.
33:53We should be aiming for a coalition of lawyers. Coalition? I mean government, though.
33:58I have other friendly lawyers with very high-profile clients. Yeah, I do actually know who you're talking to.
34:01With the Sky Andrew case progressing under your watch, you're still not accepting their terms.
34:05No. Max Mosley has promised to financially back any client who comes forward. Surely we can encourage them all to come forward now.
34:11Nick, breathe. OK. You are constantly swaying between utter despair and this. It's exhausting.
34:21The law takes time. We are building something. Let it fucking build.
34:26Stop worrying about the New York Times getting there before you. This is your case.
34:29I'm not worried about the New York Times. I don't have Sienna Miller as a client.
34:33You don't have Sean Hall in your pocket, but we are all working together. Stop doing that thing with your hands.
34:39I have another one for you. A former politician.
34:42Apparently, he's had sight of Mulcair's notebook.
34:45I've been reluctant to share him because, well, I think he's tricky, but you want everyone.
34:54What I'm interested in is in Mulcair's notebooks. I have no interest in what it shows,
34:58that there'll be a name at the top corner of the notes, which is the name of someone at the News of the World.
35:03Have you read what the Guardian has written about me about this case?
35:08Tommy Sheridan, a defamation case which became a perjury case,
35:12a process of disclosure on which allowed him access to Mulcair and to his paperwork.
35:16And he's right. The Guardian haven't been kind about it.
35:22What I'm looking to do is to build a case against Andy Coulson and the culture of the News of the World,
35:27that the hacking was endemic.
35:28Yes, there's a name. No, you can't see it. And you certainly can't print it.
35:33I don't trust journalists, Nick. Not anymore.
35:37Okay, the name is important because it undermines the one rogue reporter argument, which Coulson keeps hiding behind.
35:44The more editors and senior journalists we can implicate, the more we show them lying.
35:57Greg Muscu.
36:00Greg Muscu, you sure?
36:01I didn't tell you. You're not printing it.
36:04Greg Muscu was news editor, later assistant editor.
36:07He's retired now, but he reported directly to Coulson.
36:10I know who Greg Muscu is now.
36:11Do you know how significant this is? This could blow the lid off.
36:13This has to be off the record.
36:23Do I understand that you're representing yourself in cause?
36:26Yes.
36:27What if I was to help you?
36:28Go on.
36:31There's very little I know a lot about, but this issue is one of them.
36:34I could feed you questions, help with your research, all for nothing.
36:37For the name of the notebook?
36:38That name is dynamite. Greg Muscu is dynamite.
36:41And you can print it because it's been stated in court.
36:44And I have an idea who you should call as a witness.
36:48Go on.
36:50Andy Coulson.
36:53You're a traitor.
36:55Start by asking him about Greg Muscu. He'll deny any knowledge.
37:01Mr. Coulson, these are the written notes of the former News of the World employee, Glenn Mulcair.
37:08Contractor, not employee.
37:10Mr. Coulson, do you recognize the name in the top left-hand corner of the page?
37:14It says Greg.
37:17This is the big one.
37:19Do you think that name refers to the former assistant editor, Greg Muscu?
37:24No. Not to my knowledge, no.
37:26Do you have any knowledge of Greg Muscu ordering Glenn Mulcair to hack Tommy Sheridan's phone?
37:31Are you telling me that you never ordered or were unaware of Greg Muscu ordering Mr. Mulcair to tap my phone?
37:38No. I had absolutely no knowledge of it and I certainly didn't instruct anyone to do anything of the time.
37:45Interesting, because Sean Hall in the New York Times stated that he played you hacked voicemails.
37:52Hacked voicemails.
37:53I remain confident there is no evidence to support Mr. Hall's accusations. That's my position.
37:58Do you have any comment on why Mr. Hall would have made those accusations?
38:01You should ask Mr. Hall.
38:03How bad was the culture at your newspaper?
38:05I don't accept there was any culture of phone hacking at the News of the World.
38:10There was one unfortunate case involving Clive Goodman and no one was more sorry about it than me.
38:18And that's why I resigned.
38:20Tommy Sheridan.
38:23We got Miss Q's name out there. It wasn't enough but we're rattling Coulson's cage.
38:28Well, let's see if this sends him over the edge. This was lodged in the High Court this morning.
38:34Worth mentioning in real life he made me go to the courthouse to pick this up myself.
38:38Possibly not worth mentioning.
38:40Mulcair blagged her phone number.
38:42I changed my phone twice and somehow they always got it.
38:46It wasn't just her phone they were inside of. They targeted Sienna's mother, her boyfriend, his assistant, her publicist.
38:52We analyzed my itemized phone bills and then we used them to force the police to hand over calls made by Mulcair.
38:59The police were sitting on this information for four years, I'll remind you. John Yates. Four years.
39:06And then we linked them to the News of the World stories.
39:10There was a name that appeared in the top corner of Glenn's notes.
39:14A name we haven't had before.
39:15A name that could change everything.
39:18Tell me the name.
39:22Ian Edmondson.
39:23Ian Edmondson? He reported directly to Coulson.
39:26Ian Edmondson is the current news editor of the News of the World.
39:29Farlbeck, Miskew and Edmondson, chief reporter, forward news editor of the current news editor.
39:47That is a culture.
39:48A culture Coulson has created.
39:50We can't survive this.
39:52We can't survive this.
39:59Just heard.
40:00Good word, Nick.
40:22We can't survive this.
40:27Sheridan?
40:28Oh, Nick.
40:29They couldn't get through to you, so...
40:30Well, I don't know how...
40:31Is it the kids?
40:32No, no, no.
40:33Um...
40:35It's about your father.
40:38God, I'm so sorry, Nick.
40:52I don't know.
40:53I don't know.
40:54I don't know.
40:55I don't know.
41:02Yeah, Graham.
41:03We found two crates in an old DPS office.
41:06A cleaner found them.
41:08It's old evidence on James Ward.
41:14But we told the judge we declared everything on Ward.
41:18I'm sorry.
41:23How about that?
41:27Now this is the end, right?
41:30Do you want the official answer or the honest answer?
41:34We don't survive this.
41:38I don't understand.
41:41How can they accuse us of withholding evidence when you didn't even know that the crates existed?
41:46It was a disused police building.
41:48Nothing to do with your team, right?
41:50Yeah.
41:52The office was locked for years.
41:53Nobody knew anything about it.
41:57But even if we could make the case that we weren't withholding the files,
42:01the contents, the details about James Ward that he didn't originally disclose to us...
42:08If we'd have had the files earlier, we may have been able to deal with it, but all of it together, it's years and years and years gone.
42:23All because someone left some files in the wrong room.
42:25It's like everyone forgot.
42:26All the people in that court.
42:27This was supposed to be about Daniel.
42:29It's like everyone forgot.
42:31All the people in that court.
42:35This was supposed to be about Daniel.
42:37It was supposed to be about Daniel.
42:38It was supposed to be about Daniel.
42:39It was supposed to be about Daniel.
42:40I even think in theilton...
42:41I loved Daniel that the court.
42:43How did he do this?
42:44How was Agustes?
42:45Is it tough?
42:46What the way...?
42:47I think in the workplace, I thought it wasoleness.
42:50That the capital is a struggle with which is about how he is and something.
42:51Hi.
43:06You OK?
43:07Yeah.
43:08I really loved him.
43:10Yeah.
43:11I know.
43:12He is.
43:13Emily.
43:14It was complicated, but I really loved him.
43:19The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
43:23He makes me lie down in green pastures.
43:26He leads me beside still waters.
43:29He restores my soul.
43:31He leads me in right paths for his name's sake.
43:35Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil.
43:40For you are with me.
43:42Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
43:45You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
43:50Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
43:55And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.
44:10Hi.
44:11On the 14th of January, 2011, Rebecca Brooks asked her secretary to find somewhere discreet for her to meet Andy Coulson.
44:24She did so the next day at 7.45 a.m. at the Hawken Hotel in Belgravia.
44:30We don't know what Brooks said to Coulson during that meeting, but we do know that on the 21st of January, Andy Coulson resigned.
44:39He said, unfortunately, continued coverage of events connected to my old job.
44:43At the News of the World has made it difficult for me to give the 110% needed in this role.
44:49I stand by what I said about those events.
44:52But when a spokesman needs a spokesman, it's time to move on.
45:02This is the end of a long, as I am sure everyone associated with this case will agree, exhausting road.
45:20In all the years that I have been a judge, I have never come across a case in which there have been so many issues or such complex issues to be resolved before a trial could even get underway.
45:33The family will inevitably be disappointed by the outcome, but they, I think, should be commended on the dignity with which they have faced these proceedings.
45:48Mr. Rees, Mr. Fillory, Mr. Glenn Vian, Mr. Gary Vian, please stand.
45:54Please stand.
46:00You are free to go.
46:03Verdicts of not guilty have been entered in all of your cases.
46:09Thank you all.
46:15Court rise.
46:16Court rise.
46:23Your dad.
46:24Yep.
46:27He was a nice man.
46:29You didn't know him.
46:31You made him sound nice.
46:38And to Andy Coulson, may he disappear and never come back.
46:47I may as well tell you we're reporting it tomorrow.
46:53Murdoch's going for full control of B-Sky B.
46:57I did hear it was possible.
47:01If he gets that, he'll be able to leverage a serious amount of debt.
47:05Buy more.
47:06Buy bigger.
47:08We're talking world domination.
47:11Why are you telling me this?
47:13To remind you it's not over.
47:17Remind me that they cut Coulson loose to save on their B-Sky B-Bedness.
47:23It's all a false victory.
47:26Not false at all.
47:28Dissection is a slow process.
47:31We tackle them.
47:33One limb at a time.
47:34And eventually they run out of limbs.
47:38Don't they?
47:42I'm tired.
47:44I want to go home.
47:45Agreed.
47:47We rest.
47:48We lick our wounds.
47:49We take stock.
47:50No, I don't.
47:56I don't think so.
47:57I think on this story, I think you need to find someone to take over.
48:01Sometimes you need to know when to stop.
48:08It's time to stop.
48:09I'm sorry.
48:39And I thought a bit of fresh air might be in order.
48:49Oh, I'm fine.
48:50Well, you're not.
48:52I'm all right.
48:54No, you're not, mate.
48:57Someone I want you to meet.
48:59He helped me.
49:01I think he can help you.
49:04Get showered, get dressed.
49:05Not leaving until you do it.
49:09I'm serious.
49:14Okay.
49:49Go ahead.
49:51David Cook, Gordon Brown.
49:53Gordon Brown, David Cook.
49:55I know a lot about you, DCS Cook.
49:57I appreciate you coming all this way.
49:59It's no problem.
50:01I'm interested to hear more about what's happened to you.
50:02I, uh, I think I might be able to help.
50:32I'm interested to hear more about how small hole is.
50:35I'm……
50:37I'm trying to help him out.
50:39I think I must find out if he wants to help me.
50:41It's my belief in lil wollte.
50:42I wasひ like sitting down like a whole hallway.
50:45When I was Oooh, no one see you can.
50:47I'm sure you had just in our position and Matt and Matt in town.
50:51That's right.
50:53I just nod, while I keep sooooo welcome back to your goal is already about getting into smaller announcements.
50:57They'll get into town and make their value.
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