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Documents Disclosed by the Crown Prosecution Service DOCUMENTS DISCLOSED BY THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson, 04/01/07 [22. D18726] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson, 09/01/07 [23. D26464] Email Tom Crone to Clive Goodman’s lawyer re: reading case papers, 03/11/06 [2. D19068] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson relaying what Rebekah Brooks was told by the Police, 15/09/06 [7. D18737] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson re: Tom Crone seeing defence papers, 03/11/06 [8. D18758] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson re: Tom Crone not to attend Clive Goodman’s legal conference, 22/11/06 [10. D18759] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson containing line “tilt Mulcaire”, 25/11/06 [11. D30636] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson containing comment about Clive Goodman straying off the preferred line, 02/12/06 20. [D18757] Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson with draft briefing note ‐ the December 2006 Memo, 30/12/06 [21. D18768] Colin Myler witness statement and handwritten contemporaneous note Email Tom Crone and Andy Coulson saying whose names are included in the case papers, 10/11/06 Email Andy Coulson and Tom Crone re: ok for Tom Crone to send the December 2006 memo, 03/01/07 Pages 4‐7 AC Jury bundle regarding the December 2006 memo 2005 Agreement with Nine Consultancy (Glenn Mulcaire) containing an exclusivity clause. Signed for NOTW/NI by Neville Thurlbeck Expenses form for Rebekah Brooks’ lunch with Clive Goodman Various agreements for News of the World and Glenn Mulcaire – main contracts signed by Greg Miskiw and one by Neville Thurlbeck. D \8026 _ Page 1 of 1 6 You replied on 04/01/2007 10:30. Follow up lawyer Pd && From: Coulson, Andy Sent: Wed 03/01/2007 16:16 To: Crone, Tom Cc: Subject: 1~1{, 1-1__ Attachments: Tom - you are OK to send that memo to Les whenever you're ready- Do we have any news on Clive's probation meeting? I emailed him today to explain that I wouldn't be meeting him but that you were keen to have a chat. Also one other question on your memo .. you say Mufcaire started working for us in 2000 ... I thought it went back further than that? Page I of l fawyer ·iii +s ri4¥S¥18 From: Crone, Tom Sent: Tue 09/01/200710:41 To: Coulson, Andy Cc: Subject: Attachments: Andy, Clive texted to say h e can't make a meet-up today (it was always subject to his confirmation). He also says he'd rathe r not come very far from his home area cos of " ..trying to spend as much time with daughter as possible". I'll see if I can rearrange something with him. On the "options" briefing that Les asked for, I'll be knocking so mE?tbip.,g_Jo.g~Lhe.c..Jhis_m..orn jog.­ recommending that, despite the concerns and th1rracKC5renforceability re a confidentiality c1iius~. we should offer a one y ear's money's'~rrce.,;oeiif"":.ffie'agreementstloulctBe·rorin'al17tfi'aW'nl:Jp' oelween the lawyers on each side (I'll get it drafted by Fa rrers) and the payments should be in tranches ...say quarterly. Even if Les ok's .. .it is, of course quite poss' that M says not enough. If you have thought of anything else, I'd welcome the input. Tom - . -· Page 1 of l Henri Brandman & Co. From: Crone Tom [[email protected]<] Sent: 03 November 2006 10:51 To: hb!aw@henribranctman .co uk Subject FW Henri. ....A.r.dy spoke to Clive this rnornrng .... and asked if he and I couid see the r:;ros'n papers so we could understand the case .. as you can see (below) he saicl fine Sorr; if this is a photocopying nightmare .. if there's anything we can do to help with that plse ask. Tom ~ From: Coulson, Andy sent: 03 Novemoer 2006 10:35 To: Crone, Tom Subject: clive fine with that - says only problem is size of document (2,000 pages) can i leave with you and henri to sort copies today plse. id like to tak~ mine home for the weekend if possible. thanks. The Newspaper Marketing Agency: Opening Up Newspapers: wv,1w.nmauk.co.uk This e-maii and all attachments are confidential and may be privileged. Ifyou have received this e­ mail in error, notify the sender immediately. Do not use, disseminate, store or copy it in any way. Statements or opinions in this e-mail or any attachment are those of the author and are not necessarily agreed or authorised~ News International (NI). NI Group may monitor emails sent or received for operational or business reasons as permitted by law. NI Group accepts no liability for viruses introduced by this e-mtl.il or attachments. You should employ virus checking software. News International Limited, 1 Virginia St, London E98 lXY, is the holding company for the News International group and is registered in England No 81701 .. 152 03/11 12006 Page l of 2 .. Crone, Tom --··-----­ From: Crone, Tom Sent: 15 September 2006 10 34 To: Coulson, Andy Subject: Stictly Privat and confidential. Andy, Here's what Rebekah told me about info relayed to her by cops : 1. they are confident they have Clive and GM bang to rights on the Palace intercepts; 2. re GM: the raids on his properties produced numerous voice recordings and verbartim notes of his accesses to voicemails. From these they have a list of 100-110 "victims"; 3. the only payment records they found were from News lnt, ie the NoW retainer and other invoices: they said that over the period they looked at (going way back) there seemed to be over £1 M of payments; 4. the recordings and notes demonstrate a pattern of "victims" being focused on for a given period and then being replaced by the next one who becomes flavour of the week/month; 5. they are visiting the bigger victims i.e. where there are lots iof intercepts; 6. their purpose is to insure that when GM comes up in court the full case against him is there for the court to see (rather than just the present palace charges); 7. all they are asking victims is "did you give anyone else permission to access your voicemail?" and if not "do you wish to make a formal complaint"; 8. they are confident that they will get, say, 5-10 people who will give them the green light and they can then charge GM in relation to those victims....they are keen that the charges should demonstrate the scale of GM's activities... so they would feature victims from different areas of public life.. .politics, showbizz, etc; 9. In terms of NoW: a) they suggested that they were not widening the case to include other NoW people but would do so if they got direct evidence..say, NoW journos directly accessing the voicemails (this is what did for Clive), b) but they have got hold of NoW back numbers to 2004 and are trying to marry CG accesses to specific stories, c) In one case - Hugh Grant and Jemimah Khan - they seem to have a phrase from an NoW story which is identical to the tape or note of GM's access, d) they have no recordings of NoW people speaking to GM or accessing voicemails, e) they do have GM's phone records which show sequences of contacts with NoW before and after accesses ... obviosly they don't have the content of the calls.,.so this is at 15/09/2006 15/09/2006 Linkfaters_S204680-00003 20111208_0870004705 Page 2 of 2 ) st circumstantiaL 10) they are goiung to contact RW today tio see if she wishes to take it further. I [ 5/09/2006 - 15/09/2006 Linklaters _ S204680-00004 20111208_0870004706 ,, . - ~) - :_ -&It/;. 0 Page 1 of 1 lawyer ¥H&+ Rti wee From: Crone, Tom *' Sent: Fri 03/11/2006 16:11 To: Coulson, Andy Cc: Subject: clive Attachments: Andy, After we spoke re Clive I emailed and spoke to Henri, ...... H., after ringing him, told me Clive would only agree to let us see/have the papers on Tues. I rang Clive and suggested that it was sensible for all if I could read it all properly before Tues. conference (and you could be made aware etc). He was with someone and said he'd call back. · He has done so, short while ago, and says he doesn't want to "release" this paperwork to anyone cos it always leaks .. but he is happy for me to come to his house and read it. Pretty adamant about that. Not good. I then spoke to Henri. ..who is frustrated and embarassed but can't act otherwise than under client's instructions. He and I have agreed that 1'11 get there an hour before Tues conf. so f·can read this stuff prior to the big discussion. -··-·- ·-·· ·---£1-ive·is-eein§ ·s+milarly-difficl:llt-appai:entJy..o\ler..'.:Kelsey..shouJcLknow .this......b.u.Loatthat''...SY.ndro.me, You might make him change his mind about us having a set of the papers ....! wouldn't bet on it. Obviously, her -- - Lowndes, Simon From: Crone, Tom Sent: 22 November 2006 10:42 To: Coulson, Andy Subject: dive Andy, Henri rang late yest'y to inform that Clive says I shouldn't be at the 3pm conference with kelsey today. Nothing personal, he says, just that he will feel greatly inhibited if I'm there. Suspect that's right, cos he has also instructed Henri to bring along the essay I mentioned to you (which, by the way, is 5 pages,, not three).
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