Re: Sending a message to Murdoch
Our local news tonight carried an interview with Graham Foulkes from Oldham, whose son David was killed at just 22 years old in the Edgware Road tube station bombing of 2005.
Mr Foulkes told of how he was contacted by the police on Tuesday night and informed that his phone had been hacked by The News Of The World after his details were found on a list as part of the ongoing inquiry in hacking claims.
He also said that he would refuse to meet with any of the 'newpapers' executives except Rupert Murdoch.
I would not hold your breath Graham as the only way to get his attention would be to drive his companies-in the UK at the very least-into the dust by a total boycott on the corporation.
Given the fickle nature of the people that buy the rubbish they produce and the seemingly unquenchionable thirst for all things sleazy, talentless and tasteless, I regret they will continue much as before
I was very moved by the calm dignity displayed by Mr Foulkes throughout the interview. His phrase of "wicked beyond wicked" to describe what has just been disclosed to him after all this time was a lesson in restraint that I for one would not have been capable of.
Bearing in mind that tomorrow is the anniversary of the atrocities it is perhaps even more poignant.
I cannot begin to understand how the family's of Milly Dowler, Holly Wells, Jessica Chapman, David Foulks and God knows who else, must be feeling at this time.
They have without a doubt been betrayed, not only by the scum journalists and professional snoops but more disconcerting by the police, the very agencies that are in place to protect them.
Any enquiry has to be public and root out everyone in the chain of corruption whatever the cost.