Monday, May 28, 2012

You're a war criminal! Security probe after protester bursts into courtroom as Tony Blair gives evidence at Leveson inquiry



Tony Blair's evidence to the Leveson Inquiry was sensationally interrupted today when a protester burst in from behind the judge and branded the former Prime Minister a 'war criminal'.

Gripping Lord Justice Leveson's bench, David Lawley-Wakelin yelled that Mr Blair had been 'paid off' by US investment bank JP Morgan, suggesting that it had profited from the Iraq War.

A security probe has now been launched into how the intruder breached security at the Royal Courts of Justice to bring proceedings to a halt.

The dramatic disruption echoed that of Jonnie Marbles who thrust a custard pie into Rupert Murdoch's face during his evidence to a Commons Select Committee last year, provoking wife Wendi Deng to athletically leap to the mogul's defence .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk