Ok, as a few of you asked, why Tom Newton Dunn doesn't like me, a thread.
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In 2014 a Sun reporter, Clodagh Hartley, was on trial at the Old Bailey for paying a civil servant for advance details of the budget.
She told the court she was being put under extreme pressure from her immediate boss, Mr Newton-Dunn, to get scoops or she would be fired.
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She told the court she was being put under extreme pressure from her immediate boss, Mr Newton-Dunn, to get scoops or she would be fired.
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She also testified that she had lodged an official complaint against Mr Newton-Dunn for bullying and harrasment.
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The judge in the case ruled that the media could not name TND as there was still the prospect he could end up being prosecuted himself, and any reporting could prejudice any future trial.
So we just referred to him as "a senior reporter," during the case
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So we just referred to him as "a senior reporter," during the case
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Anyway, the jury went out, returned with a not guilty verdict and that seemed to be that.
However just then TND's barrister came striding into court.
He demanded of the judge that the media be made to report that his client had been cleared by the inquiry.
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However just then TND's barrister came striding into court.
He demanded of the judge that the media be made to report that his client had been cleared by the inquiry.
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The judge, Mr Justice Saunders, gently replied that he had already passed an order that TND should not be named, and nobody from the media had even asked for that to be lifted (mainly because it wasn't that important to the story anyway)
But the barrister forcefully insisted
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But the barrister forcefully insisted
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Mr Saunders said he couldn't tell the press what to publish, but he wouldn't keep the order in place if the subject demanded it be removed.
So he removed it.
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So he removed it.
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Being a public spirited reporter, I then tweeted out that the "senior reporter," who allegedly bullied Ms Hartley was TND, but he had been cleared by an internal inquiry.
Then, it being Friday, I went to the pub with a few colleagues.
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Then, it being Friday, I went to the pub with a few colleagues.
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Half an hour or so my phone rang, and it was TND (Not sure how he got my number) He was enraged, threatening me with all sort of dire consequences for my actions and that he was consulting his lawyers.
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I slightly lost my temper back and told him "Ask your own barrister what happened in court today," and hung up.
Never heard from him again.
And that's why, years later, TND tried to put the boot into me on national TV.
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Never heard from him again.
And that's why, years later, TND tried to put the boot into me on national TV.
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So that's the story. I thought then, and subsequent events have only reinforced my opinion, that Mr Newton-Dunn has no real regard for the truth.
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