Dennis Rice

The dog-eat-dog element of the NoW phone-message intercept allegations is highlighted by the Guardian's Nick Davies.  He notes that "Fleet Street veteran" Dennis Rice has issued proceedings against News International and private detective Glenn Mulcaire, going back to 2005-2008, when Dennis was head of investigations at the Mail On Sunday.

"Veteran" Dennis, now in his early forties, left the Mail to set up his own agency, "Moneyforyourstory", which seeks to handle stories submitted by members of the public, with Dennis acting as the man who gets you a good price; "Last month we earned our tipsters an incredible £40,000" - the month isn't specified. Dennis has continued to freelance, and scored nearly 30 bylines, most with the Mail, since giving up their direct employment.

Dennis left the University of Ulster in 1988 with a 2.1 in English Literature. The next eight years are missing from his public cv, but he emerged in 1996 as investigations editor of the Sunday Mirror.  In 1998 he spent a year with the News of the World, but was lured back to the Sunday Mirror. There followed his first contretemps with News International; he went wired up for a drink with NoW Chief Crime Reporter, the "very unsociable" Neville Thurlbeck, and claimed in the High Court that Thurlbeck offered £5,000 a week for a copy of the Mirror's newslist, plus a bonus of £3,000 for stories that eventually made a NoW front page.  Rice is said to have rejected the offer, and reported the issue to his editor, one Colin Myler.  Eventually an out-of-court settlement was reached.

Rice went on to be Chief Reporter for the Daily Express, before joining the Mail.   Now he enjoys long-distance running and rugby from his base in Marlow.  Does he perhaps have enough inside knowledge of the dramatis personae to make "moneyfrommystory" ?