I have just come in a day out in Mid Wales, and yes, I am shocked.
What this verdict says is that Brooks must be the most inefficient, lazy and incompetent editor ever known in Fleet Street, as all those shenanigans were going on, right under her nose but she was somehow like the three monkeys, unaware of anything whatsoever about anything. It now gives carte blanche to every other gutter-press newspaper to do exactly what it likes, because no matter how vile they behave, all that will happen is that one fairly minor staff member will pay the penalty.
I know that our Editor is also surprised but considering that the CPS and Police thought that there was enough damning evidence to bring the charges against her in the first place, in this huge, lengthy and very costly trial, we can't be the only two who think so can we ?
We must respect the decision of the Jury but I now eagerly await Jimmy Savile being dug up, tried before a Jury and found to be entirely innocent of any offences whatsoever as well.
I shall donate that bottle of hair conditioner that I have been carefully keeping to one side, to one of the females in my family instead, so there a small silver lining after all !