Australia - Herald Weekly Times journalist Mark Dunn implicated in new Murdoch scandal
17 Jul 2011
Herald Sun journalist Mark Dunn has enjoyed a cosy relationship with police Sgt David Gover based at Ringwood police station, money for information has been exchanged over several years.
We have been given documents going back to August 2004, where Dunn paid Gover for police records and photographs, contrary to Australian law (section 70.2 of the 1995 Criminal Code in Australia)
Gover is the disgraced police officer that has enjoyed a cosy relationship with Derryn Hinch over the last 18 years, where they have been partners in crime in utilising police records to enhance Hinch’s ratings.
New Limited announced today they are only going to investigate payments to police over the last three years, very convenient we say.
Gover was the centre of the police criminal defamation case at the County Court of Melbourne in 1998, where six of his cronies had the decency to leave the force( Including Sgt Chris O’Mallon) , while a further eight were demoted back into uniform ( Including Mick Jorgenson, Greg Palmer, Danny Sullivan).
Gover remained at Ringwood CIB, where he supplements his income from the likes of Journalist Mark Dunn and radio despot Derry Hinch.
The Australian division of the company, News Ltd, tried to distance itself from the phone hacking scandal scandal by announcing a review of the past three years of editorial spending to check it was all paid for ''legitimate services''.
Senior police in London
One thing that can be certain based on the evidence at hand is that News Corporation and it’s directors have breached section 70.2 of the 1995 Criminal Code in Australia
For the evidence to support this we do not have to look any further than the big fat mouth of Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade), chief executive of News International
In London
Mr Murdoch, his son James, and the News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, have been asked to attend a parliamentary hearing next week.
In his second note to staff on the subject in a week, the chief executive of News Ltd, John Hartigan, said attempts to link the British scandal to Australian operations were ''offensive and wrong''.
''However erroneous the allegations, I believe it is important to deal with these perceptions constructively,'' Mr Hartigan wrote.
The company will now publish its codes of conduct online and will help the Australian Press Council to strengthen national standards, but he emphasised: ''What matters is conduct.''
''We will be conducting a thorough review of all editorial expenditure over the past three years to confirm that payments to contributors and other third parties were for legitimate services. I have absolutely no reason to suspect any wrongdoing at News Limited. However, I believe it is essential that we can all have absolute confidence that ethical work practices are a fundamental requirement of employment at News Limited.''
A spokesman for News, Greg Baxter, said the review would be conducted by internal auditors. ''If we uncover any wrongdoing, and we have no reason to suspect any, there will be consequences for anyone who's involved,'' he said. ''To that extent, the results will be made public.''
The chairman of the Press Council, Julian Disney, said News Ltd had agreed to an ''independent element'' of its review, the details of which would be discussed further with the company today.
In Britain
Meanwhile in the US, a prominent senator called for an inquiry into News Corp. Jay Rockefeller, the head of the powerful Senate commerce committee, said the US should investigate whether News Corp newspapers had broken American laws following claims that September 11 victims might have had their phones hacked by News of the World.
Hinch enjoys a cosy relationship with News Limited and in his own words before the High Court in June 2011 “I’ll admit that, on the surface, it is a pretty grim record of contempt of court and publishing material likely to identify victims of sexual assault. It looks like the work of a real cowboy thumbing his nose at the court. Almost seems to be a pattern.”
Hinch, who has been battling liver cancer, underwent transplant surgery last Wednesday.
He is due to be sentenced on July 21 for breaching suppression orders by naming sex offenders, but asked the magistrate last month not to jail him, fearing he would not get to hospital in time to receive his transplant if he was in jail.
Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg indicated he would probably sentence him to home detention, but said Hinch would be going to jail if not for his ill health, for that is where he belongs !.
UPDATE 2.30pm: BROADCASTER Derryn Hinch is recovering after a medical procedure to get his liver transplant recovery back on track.
Hinch, who was diagnosed with liver cancer, had a camera inserted down his throat this morning to (Looking for his brains having satified themselves he had no heart) explore and remedy a blocked bile duct. We all know he need to spew his bile on the radio.
The procedure, called endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography, is not unusual and about a fifth of liver transplant patients require it.
God is most certainly in his heaven today.
Disgraced copper Sen-Sgt Danny O'Sullivan (fat one) second from the left. Source: Herald Sun
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