'Ten files of evidence' submitted in cash for honours inquiry (Tony Blair scandal)

[IndianaGreen]

'Ten files of evidence' submitted in cash for honours inquiry

By Marie Woolf and Francis Elliott
Published: 04 February 2007

Ten files of evidence from Scotland Yard detectives investigating cash for honours have been submitted to prosecutors in a sign that the affair is now nearing its conclusion.

The Independent on Sunday can reveal that the Crown Prosecution Service has been helping the police devise questions to ask witnesses being questioned on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. The latest "submission" was made on the day of Tony Blair's recent interview by police, which is believed to have been taped by Scotland Yard.

Sources close to the investigation say that aides of Mr Blair are expected to be interviewed again. The police are understood to be examining "contradictory" evidence given by Labour figures in the inquiry.

Both Lord Levy and Ruth Turner have faced further questions to determine whether they tried to mislead or frustrate the investigation. Police are looking at whether their witness statements tally with those of John McTernan, Downing Street's director of political operations.

One source said inquiry members were looking at whether Labour figures had tried to cover their tracks in witness statements or had laid a false trail for police.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2214855.ece

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. Kick...n/t

[aquart]

2. Files? Or file cabinets?

Or does file have a different meaning over there?

[mcscajun]

4. I'm betting ten Boxes of files.

Like transfiles. Just a hunch.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. K & R, Scotland Yard interviewing Blair! I missed this development, sounds familiar.

:woohoo: MKJ

[IndianaGreen]

5. Blair is begging the public to ignore the mess he helped create

and to move forward. In a way he is like Bush talking about Social Security reform while Iraq exploded on his face.

Bye, bye, Tony!

[okieinpain]

6. but isn't the other group that would benefit from this would be

the consevertives.

[CJCRANE]

7. In the short term

but once Gordon Brown steps in as PM, Labour would be able to regain some ground simply because he is not-Blair.

[IndianaGreen]

8. Let the bankrupt and corrupt New Labour die a well deserved death

I would put my money and hopes on the Liberal-Democrats!