Gail and Tommy Sheridan image 2DAVID Cameron's top spin doctor said yesterday a tape sex confessions was allegedly by Tommy Sheridan real.
Andy Coulson, the PM's media Chief, former Scottish Socialist Party leader Sheridan said: "It was you."
Ex MSP Sheridan leads his own defense in a perjury trial at high court in Glasgow.
Coulson, 42, was editor of the news of the world's in 2004 when the paper made claims about Sheridan cheating wife Gail.
Yesterday, grilled Sheridan Coulson for an hour to questions, including the illegal telephone tapping of one of its reporters.
Then he asked Coulson on a videotape the news of the world of Sheridan's best man, George McNeil package that is said bought the admission, of going to a swingers' Club Sheridan show.
Coulson said he travelled to Glasgow to see the band, "believed to be authentic" on first view, but tells Bob bird, Chef of the Scottish Edition of the paper have tests expert voice on the tape.
Sheridan asked: "What looked authentic about it?" Coulson replied: "It was you."
Sheridan asked: "Did you see my face?" The witness answered: "No.... but it was your voice."
Sheridan asked whether Coulson was familiar with his voice.
Coulson said he was not, but added: "we voted it against other recordings of your voice."
"We published the video it was, and I believe it was you always still believe."
Sheridan asked whether Coulson had heard his voice in recordings of private investigators.
Coulson replied: "I certainly don't know do, and I don't think I did."
He stated he resigned the Court by the news of the World 2007 for royal editor Clive Goodman and condemned private detective Glenn Mulcaire, illegal access to voice mail.
Coulson said he had resigned unaware of the illegal activities but, as he felt he should take the ultimate responsibility.
He added: "I do not accept a culture of phone was hacking on the news of the world."
Judge Lord blocks Sheridan, questions about how much Coulson's world was pay-off of the news of the Southwest and what have been content.
He stopped also Sheridan asking if News International owner Rupert Murdoch Coulson's was getting traffic in Downing Street after the general elections.
Coulson denied any knowledge about its reporters in illegal practices involved. He also denied existed on paper, add a "culture of illegality": "it was a very unfortunate - mildly - case with Clive Goodman."
"Nobody had resigned it more suffering for me and I."
The Court heard from former SSP members, Patricia Smith and Gordon Morgan.
Smith, 64, the third person was attended in November 2004 to claim an emergency the SSP Executive Sheridan not sex traffic make.
Sheridan of the meeting said he was not "unnamed MSP", claimed the news of the world was a sex club, she said.
Sheridan asked whether you "absolutely clear" about the.
Smith replied: "absolutely clear."
"I was next to you sit."
Said Sheridan claimed the news of the world "would not find a shred of evidence" - and it was therefore unlikely that they would call him in print. She added: "They were confident, there was no specific evidence, no evidence of any kind."
Cross-examined taken by Alex Prentice QC, Smith said big chunks of a typed "design a minute" of the meeting were accurate.
But denied the minute another make produced was fourteen days later visited.
Morgan, 60, who was Assistant Treasurer SSP, declared the Court after the 2003 elections Holyrood, gave it a "divide" between five of the six seats of the party.
He said Frances Curran, Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie were "derogatory" towards Sheridan and people were "Scramble for items" as that jobs would have to cut it clearly, was to avoid the party going bust.
Sheridan and wife Gail, both 46, deny action against the news of the world 2006 lie under oath in his defamation. The process continues.
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