Big News Coming???? - Sean Hoare Found Dead (Updated)

KeirSimmonsITV Keir Simmons
Just heard some very sad news, if it's true. Terrible.
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Just refreshed the page and it has been removed!!!!!!

I wonder what that was about and if it has been removed that makes me more curious.

Very strange!

I am sorry I didn't retweet it while I got the chance. It was only visible for literally three minutes.

Iris wrote:I am sorry I didn't retweet it while I got the chance. It was only visible for literally three minutes.

Well done for grabbing it while it was there.

Crikey... what next?

I saw it too. Was there one min and gone the next!

Sean Hoare former NoW reporter has been found dead.?


Yes- News of the World phone hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare found dead.

Now we know - the reporter who was first to expose the hacking has just been found dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

mumbles wrote:Sean Hoare former NoW reporter has been found dead.?


Yes- News of the World phone hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare found dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

News of the World phone hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious


Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.

Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home.

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but the force said in a statement: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, 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 not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

Hoare first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World.

He told that newspaper that not only did Coulson know of the phone-hacking, but that he actively encouraged his staff to intercept the phone calls of celebrities in the pursuit of exclusives.

In a subsequent interview with the BBC he alleged that he was personally asked by his then-editor, Coulson, to tap into phones. 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".

Sean Hoare, a one-time close friend of Coulson's, told the New York Times the two men first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson. 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 emerged back into 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 what's why I never bought into, 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 st 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 has been injured at a party 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.

Iris wrote:

ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
RIP Sean.. Now i'm really going to go for the jugular. M
2 minutes ago

Wow! Thanks Iris.

Why are the TV News channels so slow with this news?

This is tragic another casualty in this ongoing saga, but this time its some ones life.

"not being treated as suspicious"

How is that possible in this situation? Either way it is suspicious.

so may not be suspicious, too damn right id be suspicious.

Anybody checked google earth for a grassy knoll on his street?

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ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
I Don't Feel I Can Continue.. Sean would want me too... This isn't right possums. :-( M

ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
This situation has spiralled out of control. I will ensure the people behind this pay. M

Sky News now reporting this.

mumbles wrote:ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
This situation has spiralled out of control. I will ensure the people behind this pay. M

Possibly a little insensitive:

AlJahomAl Jahom
@ExNOTWjourno2 wait... did you predict that one?

Chris wrote:

mumbles wrote:ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
This situation has spiralled out of control. I will ensure the people behind this pay. M

Possibly a little insensitive:

AlJahomAl Jahom
@ExNOTWjourno2 wait... did you predict that one?

There's no 'possibly' about it.

so i pressume if he didnt die under suspcious cicumstances he commited suicde OD etc????