And funnily enough, the governor, or the duty governor, pulled me out of the cell one night to ask me whether or not I was OK because he had read the report. [13] On 17 April 2015, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Coulson's retrial was to be scrapped, along with that of Goodman and the trials of seven other journalists. But I never, at any point, felt that I was being treated worse than anyone else. So, actually, often there are these little small acts of kindness in prison, he didnt have to do it but he let me go to the phone and call Eloise and say that this things out there, but just be assured its total rubbish. Jane: So, tell me, what was a typical day at Belmarsh? BirthName, Nickname, and Profession So first, let's take a look at some personal details of Andy, like name, nickname, and profession. He commented about the News of the World allegations "I stand by what I've said about those events but when the spokesman needs a spokesman it's time to move on. Your job is to be judgemental. It is a fact of my life and it is an upsetting fact of my life. Andy: I think if people want to talk about my time at the News of the World, that conversation should always start with an apology and I have apologised several times. You can be walking along the landing and someone walking the other way, for whatever reason, decides that the answer to their problem that day is to attack you. [19], Coulson was portrayed by Andrew Bone in the 2015 Channel 4 television film Coalition.[63]. And suddenly youre sat in one of them. Andy: Yeah, always. I was encouraged to stay but I just felt from a practical point of view, because I am of course a resigning recidivist, much in the same way as I felt when I was at the News of the World, how on Earth am I able to sit here and write a leader, criticising that outrage thing again, criticising a politician when Ive got a reporter sat in jail? You talk about your wife, Eloise, and also your three sons. There were some fights, but never anything directed at me and nothing that caused me to feel scared in Belmarsh and certainly not when I got to Hollesley Bay, which was a different regime altogether. Hoare speaking on Five Live, Drive, 3 September 2010. And then I noticed that the windows of the Serco van that I was in were rose-tinted. Its a prison and a system thats designed to get prisoners re-engaging with society again and to prepare for release. And prison is the ultimate leveller. 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So even though Id spent eight and a half months in the Old Bailey in a trial, knowing that that was a possibility, sat in a dock for the large part, theres a padded green door on your left that you know goes to the cells and theres the exit on the right, although Id spent all that time wondering am I going to go left or right, when you hear the word guilty you know full well that youre going to be going left. Andy: And then you go onto a tag and then, by the way, you are on licence for another lump of time and you are very restricted. It was reported that as a condition of his early release on home detention curfew (HDC) Coulson would have to wear an electronic tag until he had served half of his full sentence. That came not long after I arrived in Belmarsh and that was probably the worst moment. Jane: Obviously, your boys came to see you there and you tried to keep it as jolly and normal as possible, but when they left that must have been hard. Andy, hello. Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks had an affair with former News of the World editor Andy Coulsonboth of whom are pasty, married to other people, and currently on trial for. Coulson was the editor of the News of the World from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking. Youve got to accept it, your good decisions and your bad decisions, and you have just got to move forward so trying to unpick in the past ask me from the point of a mental health issue, if you like, without doubt the most damaging, corrosive thing, is that reliving the past. Episode 8. Journalist and broadcaster Jane Moore asked the questions for Coulsons new podcast series, Crisis What Crisis? [15], Coulson was also tried over charges that he committed perjury in the evidence he gave in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan in 2010. Jane: Were obviously talking about a whole series crises in a way with you, its like crisis Whac-A-Mole. As every step forward you take, again without trying to get too poetic about it, that rucksack, which is how I see it, its a rucksack with a bunch of rocks in it and every six months or so it gets significantly lighter. So I changed my mind. It was an amazing place to be and it was fascinating and rewarding and I was reasonably good it and I loved my colleagues. Andy: In the jobs that I did I never really wanted any profile. I didnt accept the verdict but I certainly accepted its consequences. But no, certainly not in this kind of context. That was very difficult. Thats all nonsense. The judge added that it was for him, and not the jury, to decide on this aspect of the case and that the Crown's legal submissions had failed to satisfy him that Coulson's evidence had been sufficiently relevant to the Sheridan trial. I was an editor of the News of the World for four years. And I have some views on what works and what doesnt work in prison, having been inside one for a while, though I do not claim to be an expert by any means, given the length of time I was there. Coulson was name-checked by Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) in an episode of This Time with Alan Partridge (Series 02, Episode 02) during an introduction to a segment about law and order. Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968)[2][3] is an English journalist and political strategist. There are a lot of very bad people in there and there are also a lot of people like me who are transiting, if you like. I saw him at the beginning of the year. Revelation: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson (left, in September 2004) were having a secret affair for at least six years, the Old Bailey heard. Its hopeless. He thankfully survived and is perfectly fit and well now, but it was touch and go for a while and ask me those moments, you know, when your son is going into an operating theatre, compare that moment with the moment of going through the green door that I described; there is no comparison. The Guardian said that the disclosure "is understood to have 'absolutely shocked' some Whitehall information staff. Did you do a lot of that? Andy: Dangers of drug smuggling and all manner of other suggested uses for books. I mean, there were lots of theories at the time. And a whole lot of stuff happened at the News of the World which should not have happened during my time, and Im sorry about that because the impact of it on an awful lot of people was, the result of it was a lot of pain and a lot of hurt for people. And I talked them through it and I explained that Id been found guilty and that Id be going to a prison and then Id be moved at some point to an open prison and then they could come and see me. But the net result of all that stuff that happened over the course of five years or more has definitely made us stronger as a family. On one level its fundamentally depressing to find yourself there. [46][47], He was a witness in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan, where he denied under oath that he had any knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World, or that he knew Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of controversy. And then we got closer to it and as it looked likely that we were going to succeed, David sat me down and said, I need you and I want you to stay. I wanted to hear what they were up to and they got on with it, theyve been incredible throughout. I had proper moments of depression, without a shadow of a doubt, but I found ways of dealing with that and also I got a lot of help. Certainly, when you find yourself in crisis and thats also, more importantly, just not how I see it. Simple as that, and theres a lot of that that goes on. I wanted them to visit me in an open prison. For me and for Eloise, ask us honestly, was this the worst thing that ever happened to us? Thats a memory I didnt want my boys to have and I regret that. [32] It later emerged that he was still being paid by News International while working for the then opposition leader. They used to say about the News of the World, the old marketing slogan for the News of the World was all human life is here and thats true of Dickens. And it is all about cues and nudges that push you in a certain direction and I just try and avoid those. 59 records for Andy Coulson. - Delivered a Conduct-focused approach and embedded cultural change focused on . Appalling times, by the way, that are far in excess of anything that Ive ever experienced, and we became friends. [37], In January 2016 Coulson launched a new corporate PR agency offering communications strategy services in partnership with Henry Chappell, Coulson Chappell. Before Patrick's last year of High School he left . Its amazing. Do you still have dark days? I wasnt released on good behaviour, thats the system. And my parents are grafters, that was always very clear. And the only way to deal with it was to take one at a time and that is another common theme that has been coming out in these podcasts, that when you are in crisis, dont try and take control of everything. I dont need you take my advice but I do need you to listen to my advice. What I was reading, I disagreed with. Because I read at one point that youd been pushed down the stairs. And I have to say that we never had any problems. Jane: So how did you avoid that photograph? Andy Coulson, the former newspaper editor and Downing Street spokesperson jailed on phone hacking charges, revealed that he has built a new career as a crisis strategy consultant - and "business. The Coulson Brothers - Mills Brothers Medley -Bass Guitar & Vocals - Curt CoulsonLead Guitar & Vocals - Jack CoulsonKeyboards & Vocals - Otis CliftonDrums & . Some of them not even necessarily related to the stuff weve been talking about here, its just life. Were going to put you to work. Thats the key; youve got to get the right therapist and not all therapists are right for all people. I was an ex-Murdoch employee in government and a lot of people really didnt like that and saw a lot of conspiracies within that, that I was some kind of stooge, which I absolutely was not. And the Old Bailey is a court that is straight out of central casting. Andy: It was boiling hot and it was a glorious summer, as I said. 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