'I didn't lie,' Andy Coulson tells reporters following court aquittal
“I didn’t lie,” Andy Coulson has told reporters outside Edinburgh High Court moments after his acquittal on perjury charges.
The former News of the World editor and government director of communications also thanked his “brilliant legal team” but branded his prosecution a “waste of public money”.
The statement came as high court judge Lord Burns dismissed the charges of perjury against Coulson before they could be put to a jury. He told the court that while Coulson may not have told the truth when he was questioned about phone hacking at the 2010 trial of Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan, no evidence had Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
