Damian Green....did He Or Didn't He ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42151148

[Kromovaracun]

I agree with Gromit. He's been caught doing something a bit embarrassing, but there's no evidence of wrongdoing, or that it has affected his job.

[dannyk13]

He would be a fool to deny the evidence if he is in fact guilty.

[emmie]

i honestly don't care, his family will be worried though, that;s who i feel sorry for.

[Gromit]

Dannyk13,
Presumably Greene’s computer was returned to him, so the only physical ‘evidence’ now in existance is the police officer’s notebook. So it is his word against the police. If Greene denies it, and the evidence has been destroyed, then no case can be proved against him. The story is already embarrassing, a confession would make things worse (for Greene) than they already are.

[anneasquith]

Maybe he was doing research for a book !!!!

[dannyk13]

I can't help wondering why the retired police officer has waited so long to mention this, He retired 3 years ago.

[Jackdaw33]

Sour grapes, I suspect, because he couldn't pin anything illegal on him first time round.

[emmie]

getting his own back perhaps, for some slight...........

[ichkeria]

On Wednesday he had to - er - stand up in the Commons and face Emily Thornberry. I bet he is hoping he won't have to do that again.
I agree that he's not really done anything "wrong" as such, but can he survive in the fact of the sort of merciless satire he is bound to face form the likes of sketch writers etc?

[Gromit]

// I can't help wondering why the retired police officer has waited so long to mention this, He retired 3 years ago. //

The porn was alluded to in a select committe answer in 2009. And then again during evidence to the Leverson Inquiry. In November a female Conservative activist accused Greene of inapprpriate behaviour, and the historic porn allegation was rehashed by the press. Greene dismissed that by attacking the Police and saying the officer (Bob Quick) was ‘unreliable’ and that the testimony was ‘tainted’. That is what prompted the computer forensic officer to come forward, because Greene had called his just trashed his work on tv and newspapers.

[Bazile]

//If all male ABers submitted their P.C's to scrutiny, I wonder what % would show porn?
My bet..........80%. //

Crikey - i must be unique - i've never downloaded porn .
I'll have to make an appointment with my analyst to discuss this anomalywith my psychoanalyst

[douglas9401]

David Davis has leapt to his defence warning against a sacking.

That'll be him down the road then. At least he'll get a decent settlement through the intervention of the Brexit Supremo and grinning talent vacuum.

[Quizmonster]

I couldn't help laughing yesterday, when an ex-member of the Cabinet was wheeled out on one TVnews programme to support Green in his ongoing 'conflict' with the police. It was Andrew Mitchell, he of Plebgate fame, and look what happened to him!

[Ken4155]

^
Channel 4 news had Crispin Blunt on yesterday, a friend of Greene's for over 20 years. He said that Greene definitely didn't download any porn. Definitely! The ex cop must be lying then, eh? :-/

[Togo]

Not the point Mikey. The scuffers have no legal right to make such revelations nigh on 10 years after the event in what can only be called a vindictive spiteful attack. Does he take that computer home I wonder, or leave it there giving someone else access? Did the copper himself download it then fortuitously "find" it? Funny how he kept his note book for that event alone after "retiring", and taking into account the previous between the two of them highly suspicious. Seems plod is now investigating the copper and considering confidentiality issues. Good. Hope Green sues the git.
As far as I'm concerned the majority of the MPs would be better off viewing porn 24-7 and keeping well away from anything important. Meddling lot of buffoons.

[Ken4155]

The extra 'e' came from my trigger finger:-)

[Peter Pedant]

//I'm in the 'who cares' camp. //
arent you the one who prattles on about allowing the police to get on with their job ?
what a mess we get into when we do !

[anneasquith]

Retired police officers do not destroy their notebooks, they may be required to be used in the future .

[Togo]

//Ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said: ‘This is all payback by embittered former police officers.
‘They overstepped the mark in 2008 under pressure from the Blair government. The police have got serious questions to answer. This is all political – it’s about getting even with us and getting even with him.’
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the raid on Mr Green’s office was a ‘scandal’
He added: ‘The police behaved disgracefully as a political arm of the then government: they raided an opposition minister’s offices; they raided the House of Commons; this was a real scandal.//
//‘The danger is that at least 30 people worked on that inquiry,’ one officer said. ‘What happens if they all start coming forward now with tidbits of what went on?’
Friends of Mr Green accused the police of launching a vendetta against him as payback for the botched raid – part of an investigation led by Mr Quick into Home Office leaks.
An external police review of the investigation later ruled it was disproportionate – while the leaks were embarrassing to the then Labour government, they were not a threat to national security.//
The copper making the revelations is Neil Lewis ret. Quick's former lapdog. Leftie left overs stinking the commons out again. An investigation into Labour cabinet leaks turns into hunting with hounds of............Tory MPs. Meehh

[Togo]

Police Notebooks must be kept for 7 years and afterwards can be destroyed according to a particular forces "destruction policy". This was all 10 years ago and all Lewis's notebooks are gone..........except this one. He says he kept it because of "concerns".