To book Neil Wallis for your next event, contact us today. After Dinner Speakers. For almost two years as he approached normal retirement age he and his family had to live off their life savings, facing losing the family home if he had been charged and he'd had to fight a ruinous court case to prove his innocence.
Despite his ordeal, Neil Wallis has fought back and, indeed, has gone on the offensive. Furious at the injustice he was suffering as he languished month-after-month on endless bail, he risked further antagonising the police and powers-that-be by standing up publicly and shouting, writing, broadcasting long and loud about what was happening to him and campaigning about what he sees as a major attack by the State on the years of freedom of the press.
His eminence as an editor mean he has worked at the top level of national newspapers, with endless high-level political, police and show business contacts and experiences, and is accordingly listened too and taken seriously by all levels of the media. Remarkably, despite being under arrest, he was called twice by Lord Justice Leveson to give evidence to his inquiry into the press, and was indeed praised by him in his final report. After Evans gave evidence in the Coulson trial last year, however, the CPS decided that it did , after all, have a case against Wallis.
Nicknamed the Wolfman, a badge he wore with pride, Wallis maintained he was no different to any tabloid editor operating in the toughest and most competitive newspaper market in the world, where scoops and chutzpah were a sign of success.
Poached by the Sun in as investigations editor, Wallis worked his way up to No 2 on the paper. He got rid of his beard after MacKenzie, in a spoof piece of advice, told him Rupert Murdoch detested unshaven men. His acquittal almost certainly brings to an end proceedings against staff from the former News UK title. It will also almost certainly unleash a fresh torrent of criticism of the Met by Wallis.
During his evidence, Wallis broke down in tears as he revealed his marriage had fallen apart under the stress of prosecution. Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said it was inconceivable that Wallis had not known about the hacking, given his hands-on style of working and position in the heart of the newsroom. Stenson pleaded guilty after being charged alongside Wallis and is awaiting sentence. Wallis remained adamant that he was not part of the conspiracy from the time he joined in January to the arrest of Mulcaire and Goodman in August Their careers will invariably be rudely interrupted.
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