The Lead Presiding Judge on the South Eastern Circuit has described the complaints of defence barristers about who was to preside over the re-trial of case against a number of Sun journalists as “absurd” and “misconceived”. Continue reading
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The jury at The Sun Six trial at Kingston Crown Court was today discharged after failing to reach verdicts on most of the 14 counts. Continue reading
Two journalists, Sun picture editor John Edwards and the paper’s former district reporter John Troup, were today cleared of conspiring to make illegal payments to public officials. Continue reading
The jury in the Sun Six trial will retire to consider its verdicts later today or Wednesday morning, the judge told Kingston Crown Court yesterday. Judge Richard Marks QC told the 12 jurors in the case that he was half way through his summing up. Continue reading
In summing up to the jury at the Sun Six trial Judge Richard Marks QC told them that they they should consider seven issues while deliberating on their verdicts. Continue reading
A tipster who supplied a story to the Sun about the death of a prisoner in solitary confinement at a Category A prison may have been pretending to be a prison officer, a court was told yesterday. Continue reading
Graham Dudman was “diametrically opposed” to paying the routine payment of cash to sources while he was managing editor of the Sun, the paper’s corruption trial heard today. Continue reading
The Sun’s picture editor, John Edwards, was simply acceding to requests from a longstanding colleague when he responded to emails from a reporter asking for money to pay his sources, his lawyer said yesterday.
Mr Edwards is charged with one count of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office arising from his response to two emails sent to him by Jamie Pyatt, the paper’s Thames Valley reporter and former news editor Jamie Pyatt. He received another two emails by Mr Pyatt requesting payment but did not respond to them. Continue reading
The Sun was justified in running stories about Broadmoor that the psychiatric hospital wanted to keep “hush hush”, a lawyer for one its journalists told a court today. Continue reading
The public has a right to know what is happening to high-profile patients inside Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, the trial of Sun journalists for corruption was told yesterday. Continue reading
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