Am I as usual being thick? His old number got leaked on the internet so instead of simply changing his number like anyone else would he claims to have inexplicably chosen to turn the phone phone off and never ever turned it back on. Why would you do that? It's the number that was compromised not the physical phone right? And now he can't turn it back on for the enquiry because of security problems? Why in case someone who had his number realises it's turned back on and does what exactly?
The police can do a section 18 which is a digital download of any electronic item that can connect to the Internet and can go back up to 6 years. If its thought evidence has been deleted then that is a further charge.
Can you imagine Boris having the practical aptitude to change a Sim card?... It's as alien to him as putting a shelf up,or changing a wheel on his bike.
And not handing over a PIN number or password to unlock a device or account is also a criminal offence...
I’m sure there’ll be a perfectly innocent, honest and acceptable explanation from the upstanding mr johnson.
Not in all cases, the Police have to go to a judge and prove the case they're investigating is one of these options. in the interests of national security; for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime or it is in the interests of the economic well-being of the UK.
But there’ll be a genuine counter by MI5 that there could be certain things on that phone that could be a security risk anyway. I’d expect the phone of any Country’s leader has stuff on their phone that needs to be kept secure. And yes, secure from ‘regular Police’ too. Not an excuse at all, just thinking of why it hasn’t been pushed yet. I don’t trust Boris at all, but I also think this could be a genuine reason.
He will want to hand it in when it can do most damage to Sunak, that's why I reckon it's not going in at the moment.
I would imagine the "security problems" referred to are that he's forgotten the pin or whatever password thingy he uses to open the phone. The lie he wants people to believe is that because he hasn't used the phone for so long he's forgotten the password to open it. He couldn't just pretend he'd forgotten the password as we open our phones every day so can easily recall them. So he had to concoct another lie as to why he might have forgotten it. After a bit of a think he came up with this nonsense about not using his phone as his telephone number had been published. When you tell one lie you have to tell more until you end up with this hogwash.
The man is a known liar. That will never change. He is also bone idle. When Europe correspondent for the Telegraph instead of doing his work he simply made up stories. Was found out, then sacked.
