News of the World editor, Colin Myler, appeared in the High Court yesterday in the Max Mosley case. He followed a well established tradition among Screws editors of denying all knowledge of what his journalists are up to. In the same way that Andy Coulson claimed he had no idea former Royal editor, Clive Goodman was paying an (in-house) private investigator a cash bonus to tap the royal phones, Myler says he didn’t know that Neville (Onan the Barbarian) Thurlbeck was fitting up ‘Woman E’ (as she is referred to in the case) with a video camera to film Mosley’s private party. For goodness sake! How long has he known Onan Thurlbeck? He surely knew that Thurlbeck had agreed that Woman E would be receiving a large amount of money for helping to create the story – at least to embellish it enough to really destroy Mosley and his family’s feelings, thus meriting a front page splash.

Women A, B, C and D all gave evidence that there was no question of a ‘Nazi’ element to their role-playing. Would it be cynical to make the assumption that if Woman E gives evidence, as the sole recipient of wads of cash from the paper, her version will not be the same?

There is, of course, another sinister element to her presence, in that her husband at the time was in the clandestine security business, suggesting that she’s a little savvier than most dominatrices.

Worth noting, too, that the Tabloids covering the story have, at the judges bidding, carefully avoided revealing the women’s identities, either by name or picture, with shots of their arrival/departure from court being pixelated. They accept, it seems, that individuals have the right to that kind of protection. So do you, so do I, and so does Max Mosley.

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