Glenn Lall enjoying too much *****-footing, he should be jailed
GUYANA has to wake up. I hope that this headline will jolt us: ‘Ex-Sunday Mirror reporter Graham Johnson admits phone hacking’. This story is most timely and I implore the Gods to make people realise what a debased act Glenn Lall committed; also what a pervert he seems to be.
Details show that a former Sunday Mirror (UK) journalist has pleaded guilty to intercepting voicemail messages in 2001. Now the Westminster Magistrates’ Court will sentence a Mr. Johnson; this to take place at the Old Bailey on 27 November. This Mr. Johnson came forward in March 2013, after hacking a phone, to investigate whether or not a soap star was having an affair with a gangster in autumn 2001.
The man listened to between 10 and 13 messages a day for a period of up to seven days, the court was told.
He confessed to a “short and intense” period of hacking lasting three to seven days. The judge’s words: “… it was a grave intrusion into other people’s business, indeed the history of recent years has shown how serious this kind of intrusion can be.”
I am using this example to shame those who are being lenient with Glenn Lall. His behaviour is the equivalent to a ‘big man peeping two people making love.’
I read that Minister Rohee is now calling on him to turn in his machinery. I think we should ‘up the ante’ on Lall. He should have been raided; and even now it is not that late to do so, although he probably has already tucked away most of his ‘evil tools.’
This hearing revealed that in September, Trinity Mirror (parent company for the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People) admitted that some of its journalists were involved in phone hacking. Former England manager, Sven Goran Eriksson, entertainer Shane Richie and actor Christopher Eccleston are among those to have received compensation from the newspaper group.
This compensation thing now is important. Lall needs to be tried before our courts, and it is not a question of deciding ‘guilt.’ This is clearly established; it must now move to compensation and a jail term. Lall did what only three officers in this country can do, and even so, these three officers must be given a court order to do so.
It is clearly spelt out that none is allowed to record or tape citizens’ private communication, except three officers (Commissioner of Police; Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority; and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force) and these must first apply to a judge for a 90-day warrant to do so.
Lall invaded a most sacrosanct arena and he must be seriously reprimanded.
I go back to the post-2006 happenings of former Hollywood private eye, Anthony Pellicano, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for running an illegal wiretapping operation that gathered information for a list of well-to-do clients, including celebrities, attorneys and business executives.
The U.S. District Judge, Dale S. Fischer, was livid and he condemned the once-famed investigator for “reprehensible” conduct that went on for many years as she handed down the sentence that significantly exceeded the five-year, 10-month term recommended by probation officials. “He did this eagerly, sometimes maliciously, and with pride.”
I see Lall here: It is like perversion is consuming the man.
I call for Lall’s denouncement, a swift trial and a concomitant jail term. He must also be made to compensate for his foul deed.
CORINA HARRIS
