Jury hear Sheridan trial tape
A RECORDING of evidence Andy Coulson gave at the perjury trial of Tommy Sheridan was played at the ex-News of the World editor’s trial yesterday.
Coulson, 47, is accused of perjury during the trial of the ex-Socialist MSP in 2010.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury heard Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World from 2003 to 2007, on the tape tell Sheridan he “had no knowledge” of phone hacking carried out by the paper.
He told Sheridan, who was conducting his own defence, that he resigned after one of his reporters was convicted of phone hacking.
He was recorded saying he had “never met, heard of, emailed” private investigator Glenn Mulcaire before “the Clive Goodman affair started”.
Prosecutors allege Coulson made false claims on December 9 and 10, 2010, as a witness at Sheridan’s trial.
Among the claims, it is alleged Coulson falsely stated that, before the arrest of Mulcaire and NoW journalist Goodman in 2006, he did not know Goodman was involved in phone hacking with Mulcaire.
Coulson denies all allegations. The trial continues. A MIRACLE mum gave birth to her son exactly one year after battling back from the brink of death.
Brave Jade Cameron was taken to hospital after she started suffering severe headaches on May 2 last year.
Doctors discovered she was gravely ill with a potentially deadly aneurysm and fitted a tiny coil in her brain to save her life.
But Jade has bounced back to full health and, in an amazing coincidence, gave birth to her son Leonel exactly a year later in the same hospital.
Restaurant worker Jade, 31, from the south side of Glasgow, said: “It has been a total emotional rollercoaster.
“I have gone from despair and wondering if I was going to make it, to being over the moon with a wee bundle of joy.
“When I was unwell, I came down with severe headaches and was feeling terrible.
“I went home after work and I just got worse. I thought it may have been blocked sinuses or something like that.
“Next day, I don’t remember waking up or anything much at all. I was apparently talking gibberish.
“I was taken to the Southern General hospital where they told me I had a brain aneurysm and needed an operation urgently.
“A small coil was then inserted in my brain to deal with the aneurysm.
“They insert the coil through a vein in your groin and up through to your brain.
“A year later to the day, I was in the same hospital giving birth to my wee boy. It has been amazing.”
An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel that is caused by a weakness in the vessel wall, usually where it branches. As blood passes through the weakened blood vessel, the pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards like a balloon.
But the special coil she was fitted with contains the bulge in a bid to prevent further expansion.
Aneurysms can develop in any blood vessel anywhere in the body, but the two most common places for them to form are in the artery that transports blood away from the heart to the rest of the body and the brain.
If left untreated an aneursym can rupture, causing extensive brain damage.
Symptoms can include a sudden agonising headache, similar to a sudden hit on the head, resulting in a blinding pain.
Other symptoms include a stiff neck, vomiting, and pain on looking at light.
Jade added: “It was very serious