Showing posts with label Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affairs. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Justin Bieber Plea Deal Underway In Egging Case
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Breaking News! Kanye West sentenced to a 2 years probation along with 250 hours community service
Kanye pled no contest to one count of misdemeanor battery yesterday in response to videographer Daniel Ramos lawsuit against him. Kanye attacked Ramos at LAX airport in August last year as the paparazzo tried to take photos of him
Minus the two year probation and community service, Kanye is also required to complete 24 sessions of a level-2 anger management program and he must turn himself in to the LAPD for a formal booking. Kanye agreed to all this to make the case disappear from his record.
Man Rapes 8-Year Old Boy In Jigawa
The Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a 20-year old boy in Jigawa for raping another boy who is 8.
The suspect was arrested on Sunday when they were hinted about the incident. A medical check-up was also carried out and it confirmed the little boy was raped.
The suspect later confessed to the crime and said he usually gives the little boy N20 each time he wanted to lure him into the act.Remain There! Chris Brown has been denied bail, as the Judge ordered him to remain in jail till April 23rd...
His request to enter a new rehab facility after getting kicked out for the second time was denied...
Chris Brown sat motionless in court as the judge attributed his inability to stay out of trouble as the reason for his decision to deny bail and remand Chris into custody. Feeling bad for him.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Monday, 4 November 2013
Al-Qaeda liquid bomb plotter asks European court to free him - because publicity over 'suicide video' infringed his human rights
Appeal: Abdulla Ahmed Ali, mastermind of the 'liquid bomb plot', has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights for his life sentence to be overturned.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali developed a home-made hydrogen peroxide bomb that could be disguised as a soft drink and taken on board a plane.
He and a group of associates planned to take the bombs aboard seven flights.
The discovery of his suicide plan in 2006 led to urgent changes to international restrictions on carrying fluids on to planes.
However, the al-Qaeda terrorist now claims his human rights were infringed by publicity before he was convicted for life for conspiracy to murder - and has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.
He argues that the jury would have been prejudiced by coverage of a previous trial.
Although the Strasbourg court does not hold the power to quash the conviction, it would be extremely problematic for the Government if they ruled in the terrorist's favour.
If Ali wins his case it would allow him and fellow plotters to begin an attempt in British to have their convictions quashed, using the European ruling to convince judges that their convictions were not fair.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, said the case highlighted why there was an urgent need for reform to human rights laws.
'Suicide video': Ali and his associates posted a video that boasted of his airline bomb plot, which would have seen the group attempt to smuggle the bombs on to seven flights
'This yet a further example of why things cannot go on as they are', he said.
'It is unacceptable to have a situation in which claims to the European Court of Human Rights are actually being used to undermine our justice system.
'Our justice system is one of the best in the world and the Strasbourg court has no business telling us how to run it.'
Although British judges at the Court of Appeal have ruled the case deserve a hearing, the European Court has examined Ali's application.
It has allowed it through the first stage of consideration for a full hearing, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
His case has been adjourned because more information was needed.
Supplies: A picture of several empty bottles found at the group's East London base, that was shown to a jury at Woolwich Crown Court
PREVIOUS CASES THROWN OUT
Appeal: Co-conspirator Tanvir Hussain
Four of Ali's co-conspirators have attempted to take cases to Strasbourg.In three of the cases it was because their lawyers made a mistake and missed appeal deadlines.
The fourth case was submitted several months late.
The applications by Tanvir Hussain, jailed for at least 32 years; Umar Islam, jailed for a minimum of 22 years and Ibrahim Savant, jailed for at least 20 years, were ruled inadmissible by the Strasbourg judges.
Representing the men, and responsible for the last appeal papers, were Tuckers Solicitors.
Duncan Lewis Solicitors, the lawyers for Waheed Zaman, serving a minimum of 20 years, also submitted the papers late.
Eight men were convicted for their involvement in the plot to blow up aircraft with liquid bombs after three trials.
They said they wish to establish whether he had a 'fair trial by an impartial tribunal' as required under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Ali, now 33, was convicted of conspiracy to endanger the safety of an aircraft in his first trial in 2008.
However, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on a charge of conspiracy to murder.
He was therefore re-trialled at Woolwich Crown Court, London, in September 2009.
There he was convicted of both charges and jailed for life - with a minimum term of 40 years.
'Adverse publicity' generated by the media between his 2008 trial and his retrial a year later is the reason Ali claims his human rights were breached.
During the trials, it was revealed how Ali and a group of associates recorded 'suicide videos' at a flat in Walthamstow, east London.
The videos revealed his plot to bring down airliners with bombs smuggled in soft drink containers.
During the footage it was said the was intended to 'teach a lesson' that non-Muslims 'will never forget'.
Ali singled out seven flights to San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, New York and Chicago that departed within two-and-a-half hours of each other and said his group would taken the explosives on board.
If successful, the explosions could have exceeded the carnage of the September 11 attacks.
When Ali was arrested he had a computer memory stick in his pocket that highlighted seven flights from London to North American cities that were each carrying hundreds of passengers and crew.
Security sources believed the group were also planning a further attack involving 18 suicide bombers which could have killed 5,000 people in the air and the same number on the ground.
At the time it was revealed that the men had gathered enough chemicals to make 20 liquid bombs.
Investigating and prosecuting the conspiracy has already cost the taxpayer more than £100million and Ali's legal challenge will push the bill higher.
Natasha, 16, complained of headaches. She died after 13 doctors failed to diagnose a brain tumour
Natasha Simmonds: Her family say doctors did not take the 16-year-old seriously and failed to spot her brain tumour, despite seeing her 24 times in the last years of her life
A teenage girl died after medics failed to spot that she had a brain tumour – despite seeing her 24 times in the last year of her life.Natasha Simmonds, 16, was treated by 13 doctors but none of them ordered a crucial MRI scan until it was too late.
Her mother, Sarah Simmonds, claims that three months before her daughter died, one A&E doctor accused her of ‘putting the symptoms on’ and refused to give her a scan because they were reserved for ‘life and death’ situations.
Natasha, who was studying for a career in childcare, complained of headaches, numbness in her limbs, back pains, vomiting and problems with her eyesight.
But the paediatrician in charge of her care dismissed the symptoms as migraines. Natasha died on January 24, eight days after the tumour was finally discovered. It had twisted around her brain and spine.
Last night, Natasha’s grieving twin, Fiona, accused the health service of ignoring her sister’s complaints. ‘She was seen by so many people and none of them took her seriously,’ she said.
An inquest heard that Natasha, from Radstock in Somerset, had been attending hospital since 2008 and her condition got much worse in 2010.
She was referred to associate specialist paediatrician Colin Downie at Bath’s Royal United Hospital in February 2012, who said she had migraines. Because Natasha seemed to improve between each episode of ill-health, he said her symptoms were not serious enough for an MRI.
In the 11 months that followed, Natasha saw four paediatric doctors, six GPs and three A&E doctors, all of whom failed to diagnose the cancer.
Dr Downie finally ordered an MRI in November, nine months after he first saw the teenager, but the scan did not take place until January and the results were delivered only eight days before Natasha died. The scan showed a rare cancer – a disseminated oligodendroglioma-like leptomeningeal tumour.
Grief: Natasha's mother Sarah, centre,said that one doctor accused her of 'putting the symptoms on', while twin sister Fiona, right, accused the health service of ignoring complaints made by the tragic 16-year-old, pictured left
Dr Downie told the inquest he regretted not asking for the scan to be carried out urgently.
Natasha was admitted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and had two emergency operations on her brain and spine. She died on January 24, from lung damage caused by the cancer.
At the inquest on September 19, Avon coroner Maria Voisin recorded a narrative verdict, concluding that Natasha had died from natural causes. She said there was no need to make a formal recommendation for changes at the hospital.
But yesterday Mrs Simmonds, 47, told the Mail: ‘We’ll never know what would have happened if she’d been given an MRI scan when we first asked for one.
‘At the very least she wouldn’t have died so suddenly and so frightened.
Patient: Natasha was referred to paediatrician Colin Downie at Bath's Royal United Hospital, pictured, who said she had migraines
Emergency: Natasha was admitted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, pictured, and had two emergency operations on her brain and spine. She died on January 24, from lung damage caused by the cancer
‘We were so shocked. We’d been told for so long that it was migraines, we never thought it could have been cancer. She knew she was really sick and before her second operation she begged me to take her home so she could die. She spent the last few days of her life terrified.’
Mrs Simmonds, who works as a GP receptionist and is separated from Natasha’s father, Ken, added: ‘She was a beautiful person, unique and one of a kind. I just can’t believe she has gone.
‘I trusted in the medical profession and I feel so angry and let down. I’ve been told lessons have been learned but that doesn’t help when it’s your child that has died.’
A spokesman for the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust said: ‘In the next few weeks many of the clinicians who looked after Natasha will be meeting to discuss this sad case and ensure that any opportunities for learning are not missed.’
Saturday, 2 November 2013
'Worth every penny!': Top footballer who had sex with Katie Price was fined £25,000 by his club when his furious boss found out
Ricksen (left) and Katie Price (right). Ricksen writes about being fined £25,000 after sleeping with the glamour model in his new book Fighting Back: The Fernando Ricksen Story
A footballer says paying £25,000 fine from his club for sleeping with Katie Price was worth it.
Fernando Ricksen, who used to play for Rangers, took the glamour model for a private dance with two strippers and then had sex with her at a hotel, the Sun reports.
The ex-Rangers player, who has recently revealed on Dutch TV that he has just five years to live after being diagnosed with Motor Neurones Disease, wrote the confession in his new book.
Katie Price, 35, who was known as Jordan at the time, hadn't got together with Peter Andre at the time and newly-single Ricksen, 37, wrote he was 'on the prowl' after splitting with his wife.
The pair met at a party in Glasgow ten years ago when Katie sat on Ricksen's lap.
He took her to a strip club before they spent the night at the £450-a night luxury hotel.
Soon news reached his bosses and, as Ricksen writes, they were far from happy.
He said: 'I was all over the front pages and looking back shagging Jordan was only going to have one result but I took the club fine - happily.
Soon news reached his bosses and, as Ricksen writes, they were far from happy.
He said: 'I was all over the front pages and looking back shagging Jordan was only going to have one result but I took the club fine - happily.
'My night of passion with Jordan cost me £25,000 - it was worth every penny.
Ricksen, who had been warned about his behaviour by the club before, says he was applauded by his teammates.
'Worth it': Ricksen (right) said he didn't mind paying a fine after sleeping with Katie Price (left)
Illness: Former Rangers star Fernando Ricksen broke down in tears on Dutch TV as he revealed he has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease
'They were cheering and yelling. The next thing I saw was the front page of the papers, they were waving them in the air.
'They were stuck on my locker. Everywhere.'
Ricksen, originally from Holland, writes about the encounter in his book Fighting Back: The Fernando Ricksen Story.
'I was having problems with my ex-wife Graciela and we'd split up. I was on the prowl again. That night I was damn proud of myself - banging Jordan was one hell of an achievement.'
MailOnline have attempted to contact Katie Price for comment.
Prison riot: Nearly 200 foreign inmates took over wing at Maidstone jail for more than three hours in 'pre-planned attack on guards'
Prison staff 'feared for their lives' and retreated to safety when between 160 and 180 inmates began smashing up the Thanet wing this afternoon.
It is unclear what prompted the riot, but it came one day after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling banned violent and sexually explicit films as part of a clampdown on perks.
National resources were deployed to cope with the violent outbreak, which involved up to 200 inmates in the Category C jail.
Officers carrying riot shields leave Maidstone Prison in Kent after the three-hour violence was eventually quelled
The riot was eventually quelled after special officers were drafted in to negotiate peace
A police officer stands at the road to Maidstone Prison in Kent as emergency services shut off the roads surrounding the huge jail
Inmates had come to expect a certain regime at the low category prison, but drastic cuts to the prison service meant they were having to spend more time locked in their rooms
The inmates attempted to destroy the wing by smashing it up, and some prison staff retreated to safety, according to the Prison Officer's Association (POA).
National resources were drafted in, which is believed to be the prison service's Tornado Team of officers specially trained in dealing with riots.
Ambulance services were called after the row began to get out of control at around 4pm.
HMP Maidstone holds inmates including sex offenders and foreign nationals with more than 18 months left to serve.
The POA's Vice Chair, Ralph Valerio, said negotiators managed the scene as the rioters smashed and destroyed the wing.
He added that some staff may have been assaulted in the attack but retreated to safety.
The rioters' demands were believed to be largely based on how prisoners were spending more time in their cells
The POA praised the professionalism of prison staff and said they would be well trained in how to negotiate with the inmates
Emergency services were called after officers managed to quell the disturbance, which lasted for hours
Mr Valerio said that prisoners began rioting following changes in the prison regime which meant they have to spend more time in their cells.
He told Sky News that inmates had come to expect a certain regime at the low category prison, but drastic cuts to the prison service meant they were having to spend more time locked in their rooms.
The trade union official said: 'The intelligence we are getting is that the demands are largely based on on the 'curtailment of regime' - the curtailment of regime means more time spent behind the door.
'Try to put yourself in the shoes of the offender - you find yourself spending more time locked up with less time to be able to call your family and less time to be able to have social interaction with the staff and with other offenders on that wing then it can have a detrimental effect.
'As a trade union we have been warning against this for some time. The prison system is going through a tremendous amount of change at a tremendous rate of pace and it's a warning that the rates of change is unprecedented.
Maidstone, with an inmate population of about 600, is a category C training prison that predominantly houses sex offenders from the Kent and Sussex areas
Operation Tornado - a special force of officers trained in negotiating - were deployed to cope with the 180 inmates in the Category C jail
Maidstone, with an inmate population of about 600, is a category C training prison that predominantly houses sex offenders from the Kent and Sussex areas
'The offenders who live at Maidstone come to expect a certain form of regime because they are considered to be of lower risk so they can probably get a better regime than perhaps elsewhere.
'But unfortunately from what we are hearing at Maidstone is that they are chronically short staffed and the result of that shortage of staff is the regime cut.'
He said what the staff are able to deliver has been 'drastically cut drastically quickly and we have been warning about that for some time'.
Eyewitness Jackie Hipwell, who lives near to the prison, said that she had been hearing shouts from around 4pm.
She said: 'Early on we could hear shouts and dogs barking,' she told Sky News.
'This has been going on since about 4pm, that's when we noticed it.
'My daughter couldn't go out as police cordoned off the road, and people can't get back in.'
Maidstone Prison is one of the oldest penal institutions in the United Kingdom, having been in operation for almost 200 years
Officers at Maidstone Prison 'feared for their lives' and were forced to retreat amid the outbreak
The prisoners began smashing up the wing in a riot that last for around three hours, before negotiators resolved the row
OPERATION TORNADO: HOW TRAINED OFFICERS CONTROL RIOTS
Steve Gillan, General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association said: 'We were made aware of concerted indiscipline at Maidstone Prison which is now being managed through the process involving Tornado officers.
'These are national tactical officers who have been given appropriate riot training and will be based centrally, in London, or at nearby prisons.
'Because these officers are involved, this does not necessarily mean there is a riot at the prison.
'It is routine for these teams to be called in if there is the threat of disquiet, so it may be that we're seeing something which is bubbling up here.
'The POA has been aware of a situation at the prison since around midday, but we're yet to receive a clear update so we cannot speculate on the seriousness of the problem.
'We have been warning of the dangers of declining numbers of prison staff since the government began to cut prison service budgets.
'It is a fact that we are now 2,000 prison officers lighter than we were when the coalition began its programme of cuts.
'A lack of staff in prisons will be a major contributory factor to situations like we're seeing at Maidstone now.'
'These are national tactical officers who have been given appropriate riot training and will be based centrally, in London, or at nearby prisons.
'Because these officers are involved, this does not necessarily mean there is a riot at the prison.
'It is routine for these teams to be called in if there is the threat of disquiet, so it may be that we're seeing something which is bubbling up here.
'The POA has been aware of a situation at the prison since around midday, but we're yet to receive a clear update so we cannot speculate on the seriousness of the problem.
'We have been warning of the dangers of declining numbers of prison staff since the government began to cut prison service budgets.
'It is a fact that we are now 2,000 prison officers lighter than we were when the coalition began its programme of cuts.
'A lack of staff in prisons will be a major contributory factor to situations like we're seeing at Maidstone now.'
Speaking to Sky News during the riot he said: 'What the prison service can't do is try to intervene unless it's got sufficient staff and resources to quell the riot.
'Given enough time and staff it's well trained to deal with these incidents.
'I'm confident that the prison service will regain control, but it's clearly a matter of time.
'It takes time to get enough staff with enough equipment and resources, then get a plan together to take the wing back.
'For the next two or three hours it's a concerning time for the service and the local community.'
Criminologist Professor David Wilson said prison guards used Operation Tornado to bring the latest riot under control.
It is a proven method using specialist officers that has been used many times before, he said.
'These are very well-tested systems and so it will be about trying to bring order back to HMP Maidstone,' he told Sky News.
'In these situations it's usually a question of being some particular incident that ignites the prisoners who want to take this kind of action and sometimes that action gets out of control.'
A spokesperson for the South East Coast Ambulance Service said: 'We were made aware of an 'incident' at 4pm and dispatched two vehicles from the hazardous area response team immediately.
'They are specially trained paramedics who will normally be called upon for situations like terrorist attacks, big fires and other unusual emergencies.
'They have been and are still on site in a supportive capacity.
'As yet they have not been required to treat anyone, but they remain at the prison in case they are needed.'
Category C prisons are for those who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are considered unlikely to try to escape.
The rioting at Maidstone prison 'was a planned attack in an attempt to take control of the wing'
The POA vice chair said that prisoners began rioting following changes in the prison regime which meant they have to spend more time in their cells
HMP Maidstone holds inmates including sex offenders and foreign nationals with more than 18 months left to serve
Since 2009, it has accommodated around 400 sex offenders with around 200 foreign nationals not convicted of sex crimes in a separate wing.
It is mostly a category C prison, but does house some B category inmates.
East End gangster Reggie Kray married Roberta Jones at the institution on July 14, 1997.
Its website says it aims to 'create a therapeutic environment that supports, embraces and empowers change with a primary focus on risk reduction and protection'.
The prison also takes in a small number of foreign prisoners with more than 18 months to serve and provides forums with the UK Border Agency.
Kent Police confirmed they were aware of the incident, but a spokeswoman said prison services were dealing with the matter.
Ford Open Prison in West Sussexwas set on fire after about 40 inmates began smashing windows and eight blocks at the open jail were set on fire
Hours after the row, up to prisoners began rioting in a G4S-run Rye Hill, a private Category B prison, in Warwickshire, Sky News reported.
An MoJ spokesman said: 'There was a passive demonstration at HMP Rye Hill today where around 60 offenders refused to return to their cells. This was peacefully resolved within a few hours.'
The privately-run prison, which houses 664 inmates, seeks to 'normalise prison conditions as far as possible and reflect life in the outside community', according to the G4S website.
The incidentw follow a riot at Ford Open Prison, West Sussex, on New Year's Day in 2011.
It erupted after prisoners were ordered to undergo breathalyser tests for contraband alcohol.
About 40 inmates began smashing windows and activating fire alarms. The incident escalated and eight blocks at the open jail were set on fire.
Prison staff retreated from part of the site and specialist officers in riot gear were brought in.
Rioting prisoners also caused £1 million of damage during a five-day riot at Moorland Prison in Doncaster in 2010.
It began in the young offenders' wing when three staff members were assaulted and a female officer suffered a fractured jaw.
The longest riot in British history occurred over 25 days at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in 1990.
It began when prisoners took control of the prison chapel and trouble quickly spread.
One prisoner was killed and 147 prison officers and 47 inmates were injured. Prison repairs cost £55 million.
The riot sparked a series of disturbances in prisons across England, Scotland and Wales.
THE END OF EXPLICIT FILMS: HOW PRISONERS' PERKS HAVE BEEN CUT
Prisoners' perks have been slashed under new rules.
Explicit 18-rated movies, such as Hostel and Reservoir Dogs, will no longer be screened at jails in England and Wales under changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme.
Inmates will also be required to wear a uniform for their first two weeks behind bars, and will lose automatic access to daytime television and gym equipment.
The IEP scheme allows prisoners to work up specific levels of privileges through good behaviour and, in turn, lose the perks if they fail to meet acceptable standards.
Last month, the Ministry of Justice also announced changes that will see prisoners pay compensation for damage caused.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'For too long the public has seen prisoners spending their days languishing in their cells watching TV, using illegal mobile phones to taunt their victims on Facebook or boasting about their supposedly easy life in prisons.
'This is not right and it cannot continue.
'The changes we have made to the incentive scheme are not just about taking TVs away from prisoners, they are about making them work towards their rehabilitation.'
A full review of the policy - the first for 10 years - was ordered by minsters last year and was completed in April.
Explicit 18-rated movies, such as Hostel and Reservoir Dogs, will no longer be screened at jails in England and Wales under changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme.
Inmates will also be required to wear a uniform for their first two weeks behind bars, and will lose automatic access to daytime television and gym equipment.
The IEP scheme allows prisoners to work up specific levels of privileges through good behaviour and, in turn, lose the perks if they fail to meet acceptable standards.
Last month, the Ministry of Justice also announced changes that will see prisoners pay compensation for damage caused.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'For too long the public has seen prisoners spending their days languishing in their cells watching TV, using illegal mobile phones to taunt their victims on Facebook or boasting about their supposedly easy life in prisons.
'This is not right and it cannot continue.
'The changes we have made to the incentive scheme are not just about taking TVs away from prisoners, they are about making them work towards their rehabilitation.'
A full review of the policy - the first for 10 years - was ordered by minsters last year and was completed in April.
Friday, 1 November 2013
Traffic chaos as part of the M25 is closed following lorry crash which left one man fighting for life and injured three others
Britain's busiest motorway has been hit with long tailbacks following the incident on a stretch of the road in Hertfordshire, which has left one man fighting for life in hospital.
The stretch of road shut is the M25 between junction 23 at South Mimms and junction 25 at the junction with the A10 north of Enfield.
Crash: A lorry has overturned in the middle of the M25 in Hertfordshire, injuring four people
It is expected to remain closed throughout the Friday evening rush hour, raising the possibility of chaos on the roads around London.
Police, firefighters and ambulance teams all attended today's incident which was between junction 24 at Potters Bar and junction 25.
Four men were taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service - one is in a critical condition, another is suffering from serious injuries, and two more have minor injuries
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Chaos: This traffic map shows how the closure has brought gridlock to surrounding areas
Around midday, the Highways Agency said the closed section was likely to stay shut for most of the day. Motorists were asked to consider alternative routes.
Police said that two other men had been hurt in today's accident. Both had been taken to hospital for the treatment of minor injuries.
There were severe delays on the northern part of the M25.
On Tuesday, the M25 had to be closed between J23-25 after the driver of a lorry died when the vehicle overturned and caught fire near J25.
Private eye used by News of the World royal reporter 'hacked phone of Prince Harry's aide and discovered he had asked for help with Sandhurst essay'
The News of the World's £100,000-a-year 'blagger' Glenn Mulcaire produced a string of exclusives by intercepting phone messages about the young royals while they trained for the armed forces.
Mulcaire, who also used the name Alexander Matey, also discovered Prince Harry had asked for help with his Sandhurst exams 'based entirely on a voicemail', the court heard.
In a 2006 voicemail Harry asked his private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, now one of Prince George's godparents, for help writing an essay on the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.
'It's sort of like phone-a-friend in Who Wants to be a Brigadier,' royal editor Clive Goodman called the story in an email.
In the dock: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson arrive at London's Old Bailey for the trial's third day today, which heard that Coulson 'knew phones were hacked' and
Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC read a transcript of a voicemail message left by Prince Harry for his private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, himself a former member of the armed forces, asking for information to help with an essay.
The court heard that the prince asked his aide if he 'had any information at all' about the Iranian embassy siege - the scene of a British special forces operation in 1980 - adding: 'Because I need to write an essay quite quickly on that but I need some extra info.
'Please, please email it to me or text me.'
Mr Edis said the NotW was interested in the story to show some sort of misconduct.
The court heard there were discussions between Goodman and Coulson about how to run the story, which they knew was '100 per cent fact', without exposing its source.
Mr Edis said: 'It means that if they say that what he was asking about was information about the Iranian Embassy siege, everyone would know that they hacked his voicemail because obviously Harry and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton both knew that this voicemail was sent and received.'
The tabloid also obtained information about Prince William getting 'shot' during a training exercise in Aldershot, jurors were told.
Mr Edis said: 'William found himself in the wrong place during a night exercise so he got shot, pretend shot.
'There is a voicemail, recording of a voicemail, in which Prince William says something about that. So it's a phone hack.'
The information was discovered in a June 2006 email Goodman sent to Coulson when Mulcaire's extra fee for Royal work was being stopped.
Goodman complained the work he was doing was productive 'especially since William started at Sandhurst, with proper good information out of there about his movements of Kate's movements.'
He continued: 'We have had several really close calls that could have got us some great pictures.
'We were five minutes away from catching Kate and William together last Saturday when he should have been training.'
Other stories Goodman identify as coming from Mulcaire's hacking included: 'William shot in ambush', 'Royal cops search flat', and 'Fergie fly-on-the-wall telly deal'.
Mr Edis drew attention to the story which made it to the papers in December 2005 of Harry asking for help with his exams, titled 'Harry aide helps out on Sandhurst exams'.
He said: 'That story got into the paper and it was based directly on voicemails.'
Goodman described the Mulcaire source of information as 'safe, productive and cost effective', adding: 'I'm sure is will become a big story goldmine for us is we let it run just a little longer'.
He told the jury this email was found on the News International system, but it was also among a batch of emails Goodman printed off after his initial arrest for phone hacking in August 2006.
'He tried to access the system and download some emails which he kept for his protection', said Mr Edis.
'He identified at that moment emails which implicated Andy Coulson in this conduct.
'One of them a full copy of the email he had sent to Mr Coulson.'
He added: 'It is perfectly clear Mr Coulson understood that email, he didn't write back to say 'Clive, have you taken leave of your senses, I've no idea what you are talking about.'
'He said: 'I'm sorry it's got to go.'
'Coulson knew all about that.'
He told jurors Goodman was not facing a phone hacking charge as he was convicted over these payments to Mulcaire in 2006, but Coulson was not prosecuted at that time.
In a terse email to Goodman about cash payments, Paul Nicholas, then deputy managing editor at the News of the World suggested that they should return to 'old-fashioned journalism' and 'go out and get stories for free'.
In August 2005, he wrote an email saying 'I absolutely do not accept that the current level of cash payments must be made.'
Adding he should be 'getting more contacts who could be paid in a more regular ways so we don't rely entirely on cash payments.'
Goodman replied 'Hi Paul... there are only three protected sources who are paid in cash...
'The other two sources are impossible to pay for reasons discussed which I am not going to put in writing.'
He said that the reasons 'puts them, you, me and the editor in jail'.
Goodman's words also exposed the tensions at the paper as Mr Edis reported that he wrote: 'He is going to make life impossible for everyone when he gets control of the managing editor's department'
Mr Edis said the evidence clearly showed 'criminal behaviour' and referred to 2005 as 'the thick of it'.
'Why on earth would Mr Goodman say that he was buying books when he wasn't? Who would say something that could get you in jail unless you had to?' he asked
'It would be terribly, terribly stupid.
'Since Mr Coulson saw the emails why on earth would he not believe what he is being told?
'So they both knew and the evidence couldn't be clearer.'
He told the court that the directories contained 'every job, every name, every number'.
Andy Coulson ordered a senior News of the World journalist investigating the love life of George Best's son Calum to 'do his phone', the Old Bailey heard today.
In an email David Cameron's former spin doctor demanded his news editor Ian Edmondson hack the model's voicemails fearing the celebrity went to a rival newspaper about becoming a father, the prosecution said.
The command was written on the day before the News of the World published an exclusive story that Best was having a baby with former model Lorna Hogan, the jury was told.
The jury heard that Coulson had written: 'You think Calum a leak?', Edmonson replied that their source was a 'nightmare', adding that the star was 'bragging' to other reporters about the story.
'Do his phone', the tabloid's editor then replied.
Prosecuting QC Andrew Edis said: 'What does he mean?', adding: 'They wanted it to be exclusive because they were paying Hogan a lot of money for the story. They were concerned about leaking because Calum may leak their story to the competition.
'The evidence that we have doesn't actually reveal that there was any phone hacking of Best but it doesn't mean there wasn't'.
'Callum had bragged he has close friends on the NotW so he might know what they are planning.
'How are they going to investigate this? In the e-mail of May 20, 2006, he says three words "do his phone".
'So the prosecution say frankly the evidence against Ian Edmondson is absolutely overwhelming. He is quite clearly guilty we say on count one - (phone hacking). You will decided in the end whether that is right or not.'
Mr Edis said phone hacking was part of cycle whereby the papers would uncover private information and then pay a third party for a kiss and tell story,
'There will have been sources there which gets them towards the phone hacking which gets them towards a source,' he said.
Mark Oaten was a promising MP with the Liberal Democrats and had hoped to lead the party.
'They found out that he had been having an affair with a young man who they pursued to sell the story - kind of a kiss and tell story,' said Mr Edis.
'That was discovered, or investigated, by using phone hacking but eventually it went into the paper because they paid the young chap a lot of money
The story was 'an example of hacking working with sources to put the story in the paper.'
The 45-year-old 'must have known' voicemails were being listened to illegally when reporters believed the politician was sleeping his blonde diary secretary Hannah Pawlby, the jury was told.
Coulson, who went on to be David Cameron's spin doctor, even tried to personally confront Mr Clarke over the alleged affair on the day the tabloid went to press.
'Mr Coulson was, at the time we are looking at, fully in the know about phone hacking', said prosecutor Andrew Edis QC.
'This was a pretty big story the News of the World was looking to run if they can.
'They got a tip, but there are a lot of those, some rubbish, some turn out to be true, but they don't put in the paper on the basis of a tip.'
He said private investigator Glenn Mulcaire was asked by the News of the World to hack phones associated with Mr Clarke, including Ms Pawlby's and her sister's, proved by his notes made at the time.
Emails show they also put reporters outside Ms Pawlby's house to try to catch her and her boss in the act.
'In the third step, the editor gets involved and puts the story to them, hoping to get some sort of reaction that enables them to get it in the paper', said Mr Edis.
'The editor was personally involved in the third one, he obviously knows about the surveillance, but what about the first one, does he know about the phone hacking.
'He says no, we say "Oh yes he does."'.
Mr Edis said phone hacking was sometimes used in a 'random' way.
He told the jury that a hairdresser called Laura Rooney had her phone hacked, even though she had no connection with England striker Wayne.
He said: 'Laura Rooney was phone-hacked because they thought she was related to Wayne Rooney, who was also phone-hacked. She wasn't, she was not related to Wayne Rooney and has nothing to do with him.
'That just shows the slightly random way that this was used. She is a hairdresser, she doesn't know Wayne Rooney.'
Andy Coulson agreed to pay for a royal phone directory and knew it was stolen, the court heard today.
It is claimed that royal editor Clive Goodman paid off palace policemen for copies of royal phone directories - allegedly authorised by Coulson - to get information on the Queen's family.
The deal was struck despite warnings that to act broke the law, the jury was told.
The court heard that on January 24 2003 Goodman emailed Coulson to say: 'Andy - one of our royal policemen (St James Palace) has obtained the brand new green book, the telephone directory with all the home numbers of the royal family and their household staff.
'Incredibly useful and he'll be extremely handy in the Peat Affair tale. The standard price is £1,000.'
This referred to a false allegation that former aide to the Prince of Wales Sir Michael Peat had an affair.
In the version of the message found on Goodman's computer, but apparently not received by Coulson, another paragraph said: 'I think that we should have the book and the goodwill that goes with it but I am keen to avoid Round Two with the Man Ed (managing editor Stuart Kuttner).
'I'm not criticising Stuart at all, but these people will not be paid in anything other than cash because if they're discovered selling stuff to us they end up on criminal charges, as could we.'
Coulson replied to the shorter message, questioning why he had recently signed off on a payment of £750 for another copy of the directory.
Goodman answered: 'This is the harder to get one which has the Queen's direct lines to her family in it.'
Mr Edis said that, as a result of that conversation, a cash payment of £1,000 was made to a David Farish, which turned out to be a false name, adding: 'The investigation has never identified the policeman responsible for this.'
He said the conversation and payment was the 'clearest possible evidence' of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and was linked to phone hacking.
He said that on the same day the Green Book was bought, which included an address and landlines but no mobile number for Sir Michael, Mulcaire was tasked with investigating him. A mobile number was later handwritten on to the book, the court heard.
The court was shown a heavily-redacted copy of the book, featuring a host of telephone numbers and addresses.
Mr Edis said there were a number of black marks on the book to protect the privacy of those in it.
He said: 'Glenn carried on with his investigation and if that's right this book is directly useful for phone hacking, and in fact used for phone hacking, because Sir Michael Peat is targeted on the very same day the book is paid for.'
Exclusive: The News of the World ran a story claiming Prince Harry asked for help with coursework while at Sandhurst, pictured, which was 'based entirely on a voicemail', the court heard today
'Please, please email it to me or text me.'
Mr Edis said the NotW was interested in the story to show some sort of misconduct.
The court heard there were discussions between Goodman and Coulson about how to run the story, which they knew was '100 per cent fact', without exposing its source.
Mr Edis said: 'It means that if they say that what he was asking about was information about the Iranian Embassy siege, everyone would know that they hacked his voicemail because obviously Harry and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton both knew that this voicemail was sent and received.'
The tabloid also obtained information about Prince William getting 'shot' during a training exercise in Aldershot, jurors were told.
Mr Edis said: 'William found himself in the wrong place during a night exercise so he got shot, pretend shot.
'There is a voicemail, recording of a voicemail, in which Prince William says something about that. So it's a phone hack.'
The information was discovered in a June 2006 email Goodman sent to Coulson when Mulcaire's extra fee for Royal work was being stopped.
Goodman complained the work he was doing was productive 'especially since William started at Sandhurst, with proper good information out of there about his movements of Kate's movements.'
He continued: 'We have had several really close calls that could have got us some great pictures.
'We were five minutes away from catching Kate and William together last Saturday when he should have been training.'
Royal: Emails also revealed how royal editor Goodman wanted Coulson to employ hacker Mulcaire to help get stories on Prince William and his now wife Kate Middleton while he was at Sandhurst (right with Queen)
Aide:The Duchess of Cambridge talks to Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton on a visit to Liverpool last year. He is now a godfather to Prince george and was the man asked by Prince Harry for help with an essay
Mr Edis drew attention to the story which made it to the papers in December 2005 of Harry asking for help with his exams, titled 'Harry aide helps out on Sandhurst exams'.
He said: 'That story got into the paper and it was based directly on voicemails.'
Hacker: Glenn Mulcaire was a private detective paid £100,000 a year to blag details and intercept voicemails to turn up stories for the tabloid
He told the jury this email was found on the News International system, but it was also among a batch of emails Goodman printed off after his initial arrest for phone hacking in August 2006.
'He tried to access the system and download some emails which he kept for his protection', said Mr Edis.
'He identified at that moment emails which implicated Andy Coulson in this conduct.
'One of them a full copy of the email he had sent to Mr Coulson.'
He added: 'It is perfectly clear Mr Coulson understood that email, he didn't write back to say 'Clive, have you taken leave of your senses, I've no idea what you are talking about.'
'He said: 'I'm sorry it's got to go.'
'Coulson knew all about that.'
He told jurors Goodman was not facing a phone hacking charge as he was convicted over these payments to Mulcaire in 2006, but Coulson was not prosecuted at that time.
In a terse email to Goodman about cash payments, Paul Nicholas, then deputy managing editor at the News of the World suggested that they should return to 'old-fashioned journalism' and 'go out and get stories for free'.
In August 2005, he wrote an email saying 'I absolutely do not accept that the current level of cash payments must be made.'
Adding he should be 'getting more contacts who could be paid in a more regular ways so we don't rely entirely on cash payments.'
Goodman replied 'Hi Paul... there are only three protected sources who are paid in cash...
'The other two sources are impossible to pay for reasons discussed which I am not going to put in writing.'
He said that the reasons 'puts them, you, me and the editor in jail'.
Goodman's words also exposed the tensions at the paper as Mr Edis reported that he wrote: 'He is going to make life impossible for everyone when he gets control of the managing editor's department'
Mr Edis said the evidence clearly showed 'criminal behaviour' and referred to 2005 as 'the thick of it'.
'Why on earth would Mr Goodman say that he was buying books when he wasn't? Who would say something that could get you in jail unless you had to?' he asked
'It would be terribly, terribly stupid.
'Since Mr Coulson saw the emails why on earth would he not believe what he is being told?
'So they both knew and the evidence couldn't be clearer.'
He told the court that the directories contained 'every job, every name, every number'.
'Do his phone': What News of the World boss Andy Coulson 'told his news editor in bid to secure scoop about Calum Best'
Target: Model Calum Best was targeted by Coulson and his team in case he went to a rival about his story, the court heard
In an email David Cameron's former spin doctor demanded his news editor Ian Edmondson hack the model's voicemails fearing the celebrity went to a rival newspaper about becoming a father, the prosecution said.
The command was written on the day before the News of the World published an exclusive story that Best was having a baby with former model Lorna Hogan, the jury was told.
The jury heard that Coulson had written: 'You think Calum a leak?', Edmonson replied that their source was a 'nightmare', adding that the star was 'bragging' to other reporters about the story.
'Do his phone', the tabloid's editor then replied.
Prosecuting QC Andrew Edis said: 'What does he mean?', adding: 'They wanted it to be exclusive because they were paying Hogan a lot of money for the story. They were concerned about leaking because Calum may leak their story to the competition.
'The evidence that we have doesn't actually reveal that there was any phone hacking of Best but it doesn't mean there wasn't'.
'Callum had bragged he has close friends on the NotW so he might know what they are planning.
'How are they going to investigate this? In the e-mail of May 20, 2006, he says three words "do his phone".
'So the prosecution say frankly the evidence against Ian Edmondson is absolutely overwhelming. He is quite clearly guilty we say on count one - (phone hacking). You will decided in the end whether that is right or not.'
Mr Edis said phone hacking was part of cycle whereby the papers would uncover private information and then pay a third party for a kiss and tell story,
'There will have been sources there which gets them towards the phone hacking which gets them towards a source,' he said.
Mark Oaten was a promising MP with the Liberal Democrats and had hoped to lead the party.
'They found out that he had been having an affair with a young man who they pursued to sell the story - kind of a kiss and tell story,' said Mr Edis.
'That was discovered, or investigated, by using phone hacking but eventually it went into the paper because they paid the young chap a lot of money
The story was 'an example of hacking working with sources to put the story in the paper.'
Andy Coulson 'knew phones were hacked in bid to prove former Home Secretary Charles Clarke was having an affair'
News of the World editor Andy Coulson was 'fully in the know' as phones were being hacked to try to prove Home Secretary Charles Clarke was having an affair, the Old Bailey heard.The 45-year-old 'must have known' voicemails were being listened to illegally when reporters believed the politician was sleeping his blonde diary secretary Hannah Pawlby, the jury was told.
Coulson, who went on to be David Cameron's spin doctor, even tried to personally confront Mr Clarke over the alleged affair on the day the tabloid went to press.
Couple: Mrs Brooks and her husband, who is on trial for perverting the course of justice, walk towards the Old Bailey on the day after her affair with Andy Coulson was revealed
'This was a pretty big story the News of the World was looking to run if they can.
Attack: Blagger Glenn Mulcaire was asked to hack MP Charles Clarke's secretary's phone to prove false allegations they were having an affair, the court heard
'They got a tip, but there are a lot of those, some rubbish, some turn out to be true, but they don't put in the paper on the basis of a tip.'
He said private investigator Glenn Mulcaire was asked by the News of the World to hack phones associated with Mr Clarke, including Ms Pawlby's and her sister's, proved by his notes made at the time.
Emails show they also put reporters outside Ms Pawlby's house to try to catch her and her boss in the act.
'In the third step, the editor gets involved and puts the story to them, hoping to get some sort of reaction that enables them to get it in the paper', said Mr Edis.
'The editor was personally involved in the third one, he obviously knows about the surveillance, but what about the first one, does he know about the phone hacking.
'He says no, we say "Oh yes he does."'.
Mr Edis said phone hacking was sometimes used in a 'random' way.
He told the jury that a hairdresser called Laura Rooney had her phone hacked, even though she had no connection with England striker Wayne.
He said: 'Laura Rooney was phone-hacked because they thought she was related to Wayne Rooney, who was also phone-hacked. She wasn't, she was not related to Wayne Rooney and has nothing to do with him.
'That just shows the slightly random way that this was used. She is a hairdresser, she doesn't know Wayne Rooney.'
News of the World editor 'agreed cash payment' for royal phone book
Suspect: Clive Goodman, the former royal editor at News of the World is accused of paying an official for a royal phone book
Andy Coulson agreed to pay for a royal phone directory and knew it was stolen, the court heard today.
It is claimed that royal editor Clive Goodman paid off palace policemen for copies of royal phone directories - allegedly authorised by Coulson - to get information on the Queen's family.
The deal was struck despite warnings that to act broke the law, the jury was told.
The court heard that on January 24 2003 Goodman emailed Coulson to say: 'Andy - one of our royal policemen (St James Palace) has obtained the brand new green book, the telephone directory with all the home numbers of the royal family and their household staff.
'Incredibly useful and he'll be extremely handy in the Peat Affair tale. The standard price is £1,000.'
This referred to a false allegation that former aide to the Prince of Wales Sir Michael Peat had an affair.
In the version of the message found on Goodman's computer, but apparently not received by Coulson, another paragraph said: 'I think that we should have the book and the goodwill that goes with it but I am keen to avoid Round Two with the Man Ed (managing editor Stuart Kuttner).
'I'm not criticising Stuart at all, but these people will not be paid in anything other than cash because if they're discovered selling stuff to us they end up on criminal charges, as could we.'
Coulson replied to the shorter message, questioning why he had recently signed off on a payment of £750 for another copy of the directory.
Goodman answered: 'This is the harder to get one which has the Queen's direct lines to her family in it.'
Correspondence: The jury were read emails where Coulson agreed to pay for a royal phone directory and was warned it was gained by carrying out a criminal act
Mr Edis said that, as a result of that conversation, a cash payment of £1,000 was made to a David Farish, which turned out to be a false name, adding: 'The investigation has never identified the policeman responsible for this.'
He said the conversation and payment was the 'clearest possible evidence' of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and was linked to phone hacking.
He said that on the same day the Green Book was bought, which included an address and landlines but no mobile number for Sir Michael, Mulcaire was tasked with investigating him. A mobile number was later handwritten on to the book, the court heard.
The court was shown a heavily-redacted copy of the book, featuring a host of telephone numbers and addresses.
Mr Edis said there were a number of black marks on the book to protect the privacy of those in it.
He said: 'Glenn carried on with his investigation and if that's right this book is directly useful for phone hacking, and in fact used for phone hacking, because Sir Michael Peat is targeted on the very same day the book is paid for.'
Yesterday the trial heard Rebekah Brooks had a secret six-year affair with Andy Coulson before he became David Cameron’s spin doctor, the phone hacking trial heard yesterday.
The pair, both of whom were married, are said to have had a romance at the height of a phone hacking conspiracy in which the News of the World is alleged to have targeted celebrities, politicians and royals.
Part of an astonishing love letter from Brooks to Coulson, written after he tried to end their affair in February 2004, was read to the jury yesterday.
Revelation: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson (left, in September 2004) were having a secret affair for at least six years, the Old Bailey heard. Coulson is pictured leaving the court earlier this week with wife Eloise (right)
Famous: Eastenders star Ross Kemp and Rebekah Wade married in 2002 but later divorced in 2009
‘I confide in you, I seek your advice, I love you, care about you, worry about you. We laugh and cry together.
‘In fact without our relationship in my life, I am really not sure how I will cope. I’m frightened to be without you.’
In it, she also expresses her fears about how they will maintain a professional relationship.
She asks him: ‘How do we really work this new relationship? There are a hundred things that have happened since Saturday night that I would normally share with you.
Yesterday Brooks and Coulson did not look at each other as they sat side by side in the dock while the letter was read out. Brooks glanced down at her lap, pursing her lips, while Coulson stared straight ahead.
Defendants: Former news editor at the News of the World Ian Edmondson (top left), former royal editor Clive Goodman (top right), Brooks's PA Cheryl Carter (bottom left) and managing editor Stuart Kuttner (bottom right)
Allegations: Mark Hanna, the former head of security at News International, is accused of conspiring with Mrs Brooks and her husband Charlie to pervert the course of justice
Moments earlier Brooks had glanced at the public gallery where Coulson’s wife of 13 years, Eloise, was notably absent.
The day before she had been at her husband’s side as they braved the media scrum outside the courtroom. Yesterday she was nowhere to be seen.
She married the then deputy editor of the tabloid in 2000, two years after his fling with Brooks began.
Brooks married Kemp in 2002, after they had been together for several years. They separated in 2006 and divorced in 2009. She married Charlie Brooks later that year.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said the letter went to the heart of the case, proving that the two editors trusted each other implicitly and kept no secrets from one another at a time when phone hacking was rife on their watch.
The document was found on a computer hidden in a cupboard when Scotland Yard raided Brooks’s London flat in 2011. It was unclear when, if ever, it was sent.
Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire; Coulson, also 45, from Charing in Kent; former NotW head of news Edmondson, 44, from Raynes Park, south west London; and the tabloid's ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 73, from Woodford Green, Essex, all deny conspiring with others to hack phones between October 3 2000 and August 9 2006.
Case: Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, left, has admitted intercepting voicemails, and NotW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has also admitted charges
Guilty: Former News of the World journalist James Weatherup (left) and his news editor Greg Miskiw (right) have admitted breaking the law by intercepting voicemails, the Old Bailey heard
Coulson is also facing two allegations that he conspired with former royal editor Clive Goodman, 56, from Addlestone in Surrey, and other unknown people to commit misconduct in public office - between August 31 2002 and January 31 2003, and between January 31 and June 3 2005.
It is claimed that Goodman paid palace policemen for copies of royal phone directories - allegedly authorised by Coulson - to get information on members of the Royal Family.
Brooks also faces two allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - one with her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, 49, from Chelmsford in Essex, between July 6 and 9 2011; and a second with her husband, Charles Brooks, and former head of security at News International, Mark Hanna, and others between July 15 and July 19 2011.
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