Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Analysis: Publication of warning to NI bosses tells the story of how secret payoff evolved. The records obtained by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee from NI's former solicitors, Farrer & Co, include emails, billing files and handwritten notes, which provide an extraordinary anatomy of the developing cover-up. Those records, on one interpretation, appear to depict James Murdoch at its centre, despite his previous denials of complicity. Julian Pike, the Farrer & Co lawyer handling the negotiations, testified that he believed Murdoch personally authorised up to -500,000 as a payoff to Gordon Taylor as the price of his silence. When Murdoch testifies again next Thursday, his challenge will be to explain Pike's documents and refute former NoW employees' testimonies. |