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Phone hacking scandal whistleblower found dead

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Whistleblower death conspiracy theory in . . .

It's a CTers wet dream.

A former reporter at News Corp. (NWSA)’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, who was the first person to allege its editor, Andy Coulson, encouraged phone hacking by his staff, was found dead, the Guardian newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information.

Sean Hoare’s body was discovered this morning at his home in Watford, England, after police were called to the house, the Guardian said. The death is not thought to be suspicious, the newspaper said, citing a police statement that did not name Hoare.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...e-is-found-dead-at-home-guardian-reports.html
 
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News of the World Whistleblower found Dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14194623

Twitter is absolutely exploding over this... a lot of people have made their mind up that this guy was murdered. The police say his death is not suspicious which I believe.

Why kill one of many people (albeit the first) who have come out as whistle-blowers... and a long time after the fact?

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22Sean%20Hoare%22
 
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The basic questions to ask is how old and what was his health like?
 
The man looks overweight, well in heart attack age. Considering all the turmoil, I'd expect a HA.

Same when CTers scream "ILLUMINATI KILLED KUBRICK OMGZ"... The man was 70, just came back from shooting a movie, for two years (that is non-stop, Kubrick style, every day). How does he not suffer a heart attack!?


The whole concept of killing a whistleblower is bad hollywood and utterly childish. It would just raise suspicion. See? First thing everybody seems to think is "murder!!" . :rolleyes:
 
Hans said:
The basic questions to ask is how old and what was his health like?
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One newspaper website said the police were called to the house by someone concerned about the welfare of the deceased. Upon arrival they found his dead body. So people are thinking suicide, but many other people are thinking murder.
 
Someone who was fired for alcohol and drug use was found dead. I'm going to need a little more information before I consider a conspiracy.
 
Going into CT mode; how do we know that the body found was his? .......
 
Ex-News of the World whisteblower found dead

From the article: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious".

Obviously we can't draw any strong statistical conclusions from one event. People die without obvious explanation every now and then, so this could be complete coincidence. It only becomes suspicious if evidence of foul play emerges, or if a statistically improbable number of people who have the dirt on Murdoch higher-ups start turning up dead.

However it's worth tracking the phenomenon from the first corpse to see whether any more will pile up.

ETA: He was in a bad state from years of drug and alcohol abuse, lending additional plausibility to the hypothesis that he just keeled over dead for unrelated reasons. Linky. However he also allegedly had the dirt on large numbers of senior journalists for drug use as well as phone hacking.

Also according to the Independent he alleged that he was privy to NotW journalists bribing police to track people the journos were interested in via the target's mobile phones. The police might well not be sorry to see him go if he could have testified to that effect.
 
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I think the NWO got him. I wasn't in that meeting, as I was shilling here, so I wouldn't know, but I bet they found Kitty hairs at the scene.
 
Nick Davies has a good write-up on the man:

At a time when the reputation of News of the World journalists is at rock bottom, it needs to be said that the paper's former showbusiness correspondent Sean Hoare, who died on Monday, was a lovely man.

In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling the New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voicemail.
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But the guy clearly had drugs and drink issues:

He made no secret of his massive ingestion of drugs. He told me how he used to start the day with "a rock star's breakfast" – a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniels – usually in the company of a journalist who now occupies a senior position at the Sun. He reckoned he was using three grammes of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week. Plus endless alcohol. Looking back, he could see it had done him enormous damage. But at the time, as he recalled, most of his colleagues were doing it, too.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/sean-hoare-news-of-the-world

The New York Times journalist who knew him Tweeted:

RIP Sean Hoare. Jo Becker and I had dinner with him last Tues. night. He was ailing but defiant and funny. And no regrets. All-courage.
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http://twitter.com/#!/dvnjr

Other residents say that he had recently been in hospital for a health check-up as he was feeling unwell. I think there doesn't seem to be much evidence of a hit by Murdoch's goons. That doesn't stop some people, though.
 
angrysoba said:
Nick Davies has a good write-up on the man:



But the guy clearly had drugs and drink issues:



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

The New York Times journalist who knew him Tweeted:



http://twitter.com/#!/dvnjr

Other residents say that he had recently been in hospital for a health check-up as he was feeling unwell. I think there doesn't seem to be much evidence of a hit by Murdoch's goons. That doesn't stop some people, though.
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A rockstar's breakfast? Keith Richards still lives but then again he didn't expose the corruption deep at the heart of government,media and police.
 
Given the copious amounts of drugs and alcohol he apparently ingested over the years, Sean Hoare may not have been the most reliable blower of whistles. Keeping him in-play may have been a better option for those in on the conspiracy as I suspect his allegations would become more and more ridiculous over time.
 
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