(News of the World) hacking 'Whistleblower' Sean Hoare found DEAD..!

[jackovesk]

News of the World journalist who claimed Coulson encouraged phone hacking is found dead at home

Sean Hoare branded former editor's claim that he was unaware of the practice as 'simply a lie' Police probing former showbiz reporter's 'suicide'.

A former News of the World reporter who was the first to allege that Andy Coulson knew phone hacking was taking place at the paper was today found dead at home.

Sean Hoare's body was found on a extraordinary day when a Met police chief resigned over the phone hacking scandal, four senior officers were facing questions and the Prime Minister was forced to call an emergency session of Parliament.

Police were tonight probing the possibility that Mr Hoare had killed himself and said that his death was 'not thought to be suspicious'. He was discovered at 10.40am at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire.

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Found dead: Former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare

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Allegations: Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was aware phone hacking took place at the paper, Mr Hoare claimed last year

A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said: 'At 10.40am today police were called to Langley Road in Watford following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address in the street.

'Upon police and ambulance arrival the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

'The death is currently being treated as unexplained but is not thought to be suspicious.

'Police investigations into this incident are ongoing.'

Mr Hoare blew the whistle on the phone hacking scandal during an investigation by The New York Times last September.


SEAN HOARE'S CLAIMS

Last year Mr Hoare publicly claimed that Mr Coulson was aware of phone hacking while he was editor at the News of the World.
He gave an interview to the New York Times, and then to the BBC, about the use of phone hacking at the newspaper.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, he said phone hacking was 'endemic' in the newspaper industry.
Mr Hoare, who worked on the Sun before being recruited by Mr Coulson to work on the NOTW, said: 'He was well aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie, simply a lie.'
Mr Coulson denies the allegations.
Later, Mr Hoare was interviewed by police over the allegations he had made but would offer no comment, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said in December.


He then told the BBC that he was personally asked by Mr Coulson to hack into phones and branded the former editor's claim that he was unaware of the practice as 'simply a lie'.

Mr Hoare, a former showbusiness reporter at the newspaper, claimed that Mr Coulson asked him to hack into phone messages in pursuit of stories.

Mr Hoare was sacked over drink and drug problems, and the paper at the time said his claims should be treated with 'extreme scepticism'.

It said: 'The News of the World repeatedly asked the New York Times to provide evidence to support their allegations and they were unable to do so.

'Indeed, the story they published contained no new credible evidence and relied heavily on anonymous sources, contrary to the paper's own editorial guidelines.

'In so doing, they have undermined their own reputation and confirmed our suspicion their story was motivated by commercial rivalry.

'We reject absolutely any suggestion there was a widespread culture of wrongdoing at the News of the World.'

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Tragic: Police are investigating the death of Mr Hoare after his body was found at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire

In his claims to The New York Times, Mr Hoare said that he had played messages obtained through phone hacking to Mr Coulson, the Guardian reported.

He told investigators that he had been 'actively encouraged' to obtain information through the practice.

The discovery of Sean Hoare's body comes on a day when:

David Cameron cut short an official trip to South Africa for emergency session of Parliament on phone hacking. Met Police chief Sir John Yates resigned over the handling of the investigation in the News of the World


Four senior police officers faced investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission
Former Sun editor David Yelland tonight tweeted: 'Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God.'
Last week Mr Hoare expressed his wish that the hacking scandal would result in the cleaning up of journalism in general, the Guardian reported.
The paper also reported that the former journalist had recently broken his nose and injured his foot while dismantling a marquee.


He told a reporter he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016132/Sean-Hoare-News-World-phone-hacking-whistleblower-dead.html

PS - Just when you this fiasco shorely could'nt get any more Bizarre?

The Plot thickens! or Should I say the NWO Factional MSM War has only just begun.

Interesting times ahead!

[Möbius]

Police statement "A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious".... Not suspicious! (1) Why should we trust the Police when the top two policemen in the country have just resigned because of their involvement in this scandal. (2) Sean Hoare was the first person to state that Andy Coulson was well aware of the phone hacking. This would then put Cameron (as he hired Coulson for his knowledge of the media machine) in a very procarious position if this were to be proven in court. In Coulson's and Cameron's mind there was only one option and that was to get rid of the "problem" aka Sean Hoare and blame his demise on his drink & drug addiction. What is the probability that the main witness with a drink & drug problem dies on the same day that the house of cards starts to fall down!

Mobius

[JoshERTW]

The comments section of the MSM outlet I check from time to time (CBC) is full of people effectively saying "Not suspicious my @$$" with regards to this story. Good to see people paying attention and using their minds.

[Rocky_Shorz]

well Murdock did go into business with Cheney last year...


not suspicious translates to above suspicion

[ulli]

well Murdock did go into business with Cheney last year...


not suspicious translates to above suspicion

they should go hunting together now...

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

By all accounts the sun newspaper is being cracked big time. Their website has had it, & all of their computers. All data is being uploaded allegedly. Also the Daily Mail has just been cracked.

The death of the Sean Hoare & the fear of the safety of Glen Mulcaire isn't going down well.

Edit:
Anonymous are posting personal details of the paper bosses on twitter now.

[Rocky_Shorz]

I thought this was pretty funny...

http://gizmodo.com/

[ktlight]

Does this mean that a witness has been removed?

[oceanz]

A big can of worms - there has yet to be revealed who has helped them within the telecommunications industry.

[jackovesk]

'This is not going to go away': Murdoch whistleblower warned of more revelations before death

July 19, 2011

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In an interview with the PM programme he said Coulson’s insistence that he didn’t know about the practice was ‘‘a lie, it is simply a lie’’.

At the time a Downing Street spokeswoman said Coulson totally and utterly denied the allegations and said he had ‘‘never condoned the use of phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where phone hacking took place’’.

Hoare, who said he was once a close friend of Coulson’s, told the New York Times the two first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson.

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Andy Coulson ... quit goverment role as rumours spread of hundreds of tapes.

At the News of the World, Hoare said, he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. Coulson ‘‘actively encouraged me to do it’’, Hoare said.

In September last year he was interviewed under caution by police over his claims that the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when he was editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment.

Hoare returned to the spotlight last week, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to use a technique called ‘‘pinging’’ which measured the distance between mobile handsets and a number of phone masts to pinpoint its location.

Hoare gave further details about the use of ‘‘pinging’’ to the Guardian last week. He described how reporters would ask a news desk executive to obtain the location of a target: ‘‘Within 15 to 30 minutes someone on the news desk would come back and say ’right that’s where they are.’’’

He said: ‘‘You’d just go to the news desk and they’d just come back to you. You don’t ask any questions. You’d consider it a job done. The chain of command is one of absolute discipline and that’s why I never bought into it, like with Andy saying he wasn’t aware of it and all that. That’s bollocks.’’

He said he would stand by everything he had told the New York Times about ‘‘pinging’’.

‘‘I don’t know how often it happened. That would be wrong of me. But if I had access as a humble reporter ... ’’

He admitted he had had problems with drink and drugs and had been in rehab. ‘‘But that’s irrelevant,’’ he said.

‘‘There’s more to come. This is not going to go away.’’

Hoare named a private investigator who he said had links with the News of the World, adding: ‘‘He may want to talk now because I think what you’ll find now is a lot of people are going to want to cover their arse.’’

Speaking to another Guardian journalist last week, Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former News of the World colleagues with that aim in mind.

He also said he had been injured the previous weekend while taking down a marquee erected for a children’s party. He said he had broken his nose and badly injured his foot when a relative accidentally struck him with a heavy pole from the marquee. Hoare also emphasised that he was not making any money from telling his story.

Hoare, who has been treated for drug and alcohol problems, reminisced about partying with former pop stars and said he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.

Yesterday evening the curtains were drawn at his home, a first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats.

A neighbour, Nicky Dormer, who lives opposite, said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property at 11am. Police left at about 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises.

She and another neighbour described Hoare as a jovial man who would often sit on his balcony, overlooking the entrance to the block, and talk to residents.

They said he lived in the block with his partner, a woman called Jo, who they believed had been away on holiday. Neither had seen Hoare for a few days.

Paul Pritchard, 30, another neighbour, said Sean Hoare was ‘‘the most sociable’’ resident, and they would regularly see him watering the communal front lawn or clearing out the bin shed.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/this-is-not-going-to-go-away-murdoch-whistleblower-warned-of-more-revelations-before-death-20110719-1hm7f.html

PS - Sean Hoare Quote: ‘‘There’s more to come. This is not going to go away.’’

The above quote from Sean Hoare, Says it ALL Literally..!

[KosmicKat]

Does anyone remember when the death of Princess Diana was "not suspicious"?

[loveandgratitude]

That's right people.....nothing suspicious here......keep moving along.......

http://www.bencole.co.uk/move.jpg

[Muzz]

Thanks for posting Jackovesk
On the same day they were hacked they published the story of Tony Farrell (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?24832-Terror-threat-is-in-UK-Government-says-a-police-Principal-Intelligence-Analyst&p=265420&viewfull=1#post265420). I think this could be a warning shot from News Corp across the bow of UK gov. Why else would they cover this?

[jackovesk]

Police say 'no-one else involved' in death of phone-hacking whistleblower who 'feared someone was out to get him'


'No third party involvement in death', post mortem reveals
Sean Hoare found dead at his flat in Watford, Hertfordshire
Ex-NotW reporter's claims last autumn reignited scandal
Mr Hoare claimed Coulson's denials of phone hacking were 'a lie'
Police probing former showbiz reporter's 'suicide'


20th July 2011

The man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed.
Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, Hertfordshire, had spent much of the last weeks of his life 'hiding' in his flat with the curtains drawn.
A post mortem examination revealed that there was no third party involvement in the death. Officers are not treating the death as suspicious although it will be several weeks before they have full toxicology results.

A friend and neighbour claimed Mr Hoare, 47, had become increasingly reclusive and paranoid in recent weeks.

‘He would talk about someone from the Government coming to get him,' he said.
'He’d say to me, “If anyone comes by, don’t say I’m in”.
'He was physically going downhill. He was yellow in colour and wasn’t looking well for the last month.
‘He had a constant struggle with alcohol and talked to me about how much he had put his wife through.
‘He did say something about phone hacking and I think that was his main worry. He had definite concerns with the media. He did mention he was paranoid and would mention conspiracy stuff.’

Former News of the World journalist Mr Hoare had accused former Tory media chief Andy Coulson of lying about his role in the affair.
He said that when editor of the paper, Mr Coulson actively encouraged his staff to intercept the calls of celebrities.
It was his explosive claims last autumn that reignited the scandal and ultimately led to the tumultuous events of the past fortnight which have shaken the political, police and media establishments.

Police were investigating the possibility that he had killed himself, saying his death was ‘not thought to be suspicious’.

His death came after:


The Metropolitan Police was left in turmoil as counter-terrorism officer John Yates was forced to follow Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and resign;
Mr Yates faced investigation over claims that he secured a Scotland Yard job for the daughter of hacking suspect Neil Wallis;
David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and said he will fly back to Britain today after agreeing to delay Parliament’s summer break to discuss the affair;
London Mayor Boris Johnson infuriated Number Ten by refusing to say whether the PM should quit over his hiring of Mr Coulson;
Police recovered a bag containing a computer, phone and paperwork found in a bin near Rebekah Brooks’s London home.


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Mr Hoare in the sitting room of his home. A friend and neighbour claimed Mr Hoare had become increasingly reclusive and paranoid in recent weeks

The body of Mr Hoare, 47, was discovered by police on Monday morning at his modern first-floor flat in Watford.

The former reporter blew the whistle during an investigation by the New York Times last September, pointing the finger directly at Mr Coulson, by then the Prime Minister’s communications chief.

Until Mr Hoare spoke out in September, pressure had eased on Mr Coulson, recruited by David Cameron as his media chief in 2007 after resigning as editor of the News of the World when royal reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed.

Last week, Mr Hoare was back in the spotlight with further claims, telling the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals in exchange for payments to police officers.

Mr Coulson, who quit Downing Street in January and was arrested over hacking earlier this month, has strenuously denied Mr Hoare’s allegations.

He issued a statement last year that he had ‘never condoned the use of phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where phone hacking took place’.

But Mr Hoare told Radio 4’s PM programme that phone hacking was ‘endemic’ at the newspaper and said of his former boss: ‘He was well aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie, simply a lie.’

Police could not rule out suicide but friends suggested natural causes was also a possibility as he had been suffering from ill health.
A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman added: 'The man's next of kin have been informed and the family are being supported by police at this sad time.'

Officers have yet to confirm arrangements for an inquest to be opened.
His solicitor David Sonn said: ‘I last spoke to him a week ago and he seemed fine. I am shocked and saddened. It is a terrible tragedy.’

He added: ‘In giving his statement to the New York Times, he was arguably the catalyst for everything that has happened since.’ When Mr Coulson was made editor of the News of the World in 2003, he recruited Mr Hoare as a showbusiness reporter.

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Investigation: Forensic officers and a policeman at the flat of Mr Hoare

They had previously both worked on The Sun’s showbusiness column Bizarre.
One former colleague said: ‘At The Sun, they were absolutely the best of buddies. They used to go out to Covent Garden and socialise all night together. Andy would cover for Sean, or vice versa, if one of them was too hung over for work.

‘I last saw Sean at a do not all that long after he left the News of the World. He was looking very scrubbed and sober and I asked what he planned to do, and he said he wanted to get back into journalism but added, “Journalism has turned its back on me”.’

Mr Hoare was sacked from the News of the World over drink and drug problems in 2005, and last year sources at the paper said that his claims should be treated with ‘extreme scepticism’.

But a friend who saw him more recently described him as ‘sober’ and wanting to rebuild his career.

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Evidence: The death of Mr Hoare is currently being treated as unexplained, said authorities

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016132/Sean-Hoare-dead-No-involved-phone-hacking-whistleblowers-death.html

[crosby]

makes you wonder how deep this may really go??????? there are others that have even more information and i'm sure after they get over the shock of Mr. Hoares' death will get the truth out any way they can. although at the moment, i'm also sure that they will remain inactive so as not to become another non-suspicious occasion.
regards, corson

[Rocky_Shorz]

this was the 2nd killed...

link (http://yesbuthowever.com/two-murdoch-whistleblowers-dead-5000943/)


(YBH) – First it was Big George Webley who relayed a fear of the Murdoch machine and wound up dead. Now it’s Sean Hoare. Two British media whistleblowers. Two untimely deaths.

Let’s assume that neither was killed by Rupert Murdoch (toxicology reports haven’t been made available; foul play isn’t suspected by British authorities in either case), but something happened that put the fear of God into both men. Neither was known as a lunatic before their demise, both simply told the truth to British authorities about what they knew of Mr. Murdoch’s enterprises and died afterward at a relatively young age...

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oops, I mean no $u$picion here, please keep moving...

[Muzz]

James Corbett & Tony Gosling: The Suspicious Murder of Whistleblower in Murdoch Hacking Case (http://www.infowars.com/james-corbett-tony-gosling-the-suspicious-murder-of-whistleblower-in-murdoch-hacking-case/)

Alex talks with Tony Gosling, a journalist and the man behind the website www. bilderberg.org, and James Corbett, an independent journalist who produces The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source.