Jock Anderson

CaseLoaders the planet over have no fear…CaseLoad is still here, if in a bit of an abbreviated version.

As the world is aware CaseLoad’s alter ego Jock Anderson took on the job of Chief Reporter of NZ Truth Weekly in February, following the purchase of the 102 year old paper from Australian-controlled Fairfax by an independent New Zealand consortium led by a courageous Dermott Malley, of Hawkes Bay.

Amid initial howls of derision and ridicule from the Ladies and Escorts Lounge Anderson – the Wee Scunner – continues to soldier on in his new and challenging role.

“Whit do they want wi’ you? They’re tryin’ to improve the paper and sell mair?” harrumphed Our Man At The Bar, tipping the leaner to catch the jug overflow.

Such encouraging pleasantries aside, Anderson says the new look Truth is being well received, partly because of the encouraging media coverage the ownership and direction change has so far had and a beef up of content and appearance.

An in-depth look at Truth is expected to appear in the April issue of Metro and Television One’s Sunday current affairs programme has a story expected to screen – some might say significantly – on April 1.

Both items are expected to look at some of the paper’s highs and lows over its 102 year history and how it plans to build circulation and readership from now on under new ownership.

Sales of Truth are up.

What this means is that CaseLoad has less time to devote to feeding his site and the ravenous appetites of thousands of CaseLoaders world wide – a typically unselfish duty gladly taken on to keep the gossip wheels oiled.

But, with the backing and kind wishes of Her Majesty’s judiciary, associated grovellers, the Pitcairn Court of Appeal, the law society, related toadies, highly-placed society squealers and defrocked briefs everywhere, he intends to maintain his scurrilous CaseLoad Column of half-truths, innuendo, gossip and damned lies.

And, in a cunning multi-lateral cross-media scoop devised while observing the passing parade through an armful of happy-hour pints down Vulcan Lane (“Aye, and ye can still get locked up for that sort of deviance,” huffed OMATB, adjusting the camera lens on the toe of his desert boot), CaseLoad has a plan.

CaseLoaders will be able to get a hint of what juicy stuff is in the latest NZ Truth Weekly simply by referring to www.caseload.co.nz every week, thus enabling everyone to rush out and buy copies of the paper to get the full story while it’s still hot.

Popular in the new look Truth is Jock Anderson’s weekly roundup of what’s been happening in the nation’s courts, suitably labeled “In the Dock with Jock.”

Here’s a taste of what to find in the latest Truth – on sale from March 15 and going fast.

In the Dock this week Jock hears about Mrs Mop in the Big Apple; a big-drinking Wellingtonian: an Auckland sex beast who got more; snail power in the Garden City; a family fracas in Palmerston North; student nursing woes in Nelson; shocking revelations in Vulcan Lane; arresting times for Timaru’s Jacko; a hijacked Oamaru golf cart; how a working girl charmed Their Honours; a political party pooper accused of slaying mum in Sydney and a Hastings mother who saw her daughter raped.

In other stories we tell of Girl Gang Hell in South Auckland…Why they won’t let us tell you which doctor botched breast reduction surgery…What Maori want from Clint Rickards…Legal aid gravy train-ers named…Plus the latest in sport, entertainment, tv, gossip and what the Truth Babes are up to.

And don’t forget – next week’s issue of NZ Truth Weekly goes on sale near you on Thursday March 22 and CaseLoad will give a sneak preview of what to expect.

Watch this website…www.caseload.co.nz

“Get yer cash on the bar an’ be quick aboot it, ye self-tinkering wee scunner…”

Feedback on this and other items to jockanderson@xtra.co.nz

Or if it’s a really juicy story try jock@truth.co.nz