'Sir' Paul Stephenson the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, likes a drop of bubbly you know, especially in the company of his News Corporation cronies. Fancying himself as one of the powerful elite too, Stephenson stayed at the swish Champneys in Tring, Hertfordshire while recovering from a broken leg in January this year. It only cost a mere £12,000 which is a snip in Stephenson's world. However, one of Stephenson's chums, Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World who was arrested last week in connection with the phone hacking scandal coincidentally managed Champneys. Sir Paul had already courted suspicion over his decision to employ Mr Wallis as a media consultant to the Met police until he quit in September 2010 amid further revelations of phone hacking. It now seems that there are many a 'cluster' of nice little earners around for the privileged few. The Sunday Telegraph has revealed today how Sir Paul was offered hospitality by News International on 15 different occasions. And it doesn't stop there.
Met police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his deputy Tim Godwin dined some thirteen times with senior News Corporation officials during the period when the force was responsible for investigating News of the World phone-hacking. These included a dinner with Neil Wallis in September 2006, when he should have been regarded as a genuine suspect and another in September 2009. Perhaps we should not be quick to judge; our policing literati might be partial to a glass or two of champers you know. It's hardly a crime-is it?
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