Internal email discussing possible payments by editors to sources and criminals for stories, referencing Daily Mail and PCC code

The passage hints at a practice of media outlets paying sources, including convicted criminals, for information, and mentions internal awareness of legal constraints. It provides specific names (Kevin Email chain includes senior figures (Kevin Maxwell, Ian Maxwell) discussing media payments. Reference to Daily Mail as the outlet potentially making payments. Mentions the PCC Code for Editors and le

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November 11, 2025

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“...wspapers are employees or have any form of contractual relationship with target.Let's talk. Kevinx Kevin MaxwellAvenue Partners Limited35 Park LaneLondon W1K me 6Cftti(isé‘z x Pe From: Ross gow Date: Thu, 10 Ma...”

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Date: Friday, March 11 2011 12:54 AM Subject: FW: Daily Mail From: GM AX To: J Jep <[email protected]>; ------ Forwarded Message From: Reply-To: < Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:40:11 -0500 To: NY Max Subject: Fw: Daily Mail Please see below. My take:A) voluntary rules are meaningless in terms of arranging for a cessation of crap articles/stories etcB) doesn't offer redress (financial or in terms of publicity.Law here definitely provides more protection and redress if individual(s) involved in approaches from newspapers are employees or have any form of contractual relationship with target.Let's talk. Kevinx Kevin MaxwellAvenue Partners Limited35 Park LaneLondon W1K me 6Cftti(isé‘z x Pe From: Ross gow Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:29:24 +0000 To: GMAX Ce: Brian Bashan; Ross Gow >; Ian Ian Maxwell< ee; Kevin Maxwell >; Gareth Thompson< Fr t—“‘:;™SC;*tsSCtésaER Subject: Re: Daily Mail Maz is the most devious and cunning of the bunch. However, Editors can pay for people, stories and documents. They can even pay criminals if it is in the public interest. Maz can pay who he wants for info but the Yorkshire Ripper for instance, as a convicted criminal, can't sell his story...unless in public interest cos there was say, a bent detective. Below is from PCC Code for Editors. It is not well drafted. 15 Witness payments in criminal trials i) No payment or offer of payment to a witness - or any person who may reasonably be expected to be called as a witness - should be made in any case once proceedings are active as defined by the Contempt of Court Act 1981. This prohibition lasts until the suspect has been freed unconditionally by police without charge or bail or the proceedings are otherwise discontinued; or has entered a guilty plea to the court; or, in the event of a not guilty plea, the court has announced its verdict. *11) Where proceedings are not yet active but are likely and foreseeable, editors must not make or offer payment to any person who

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