Post date: Nov 04, 2013 2:50:57 PM
A London court hears evidence that former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks hid computers and documents from police investigating phone-hacking.
LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 4, 2013) (ITN) - Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, and her husband were involved in an elaborate but botched "spy" plan to hide computers and documents from police investigating phone-hacking, a London court heard on Monday (November 4).
Brooks, a former editor of Murdoch's News of the World and Sun newspapers, also arranged with her personal assistant for seven boxes full of her archived notebooks to be spirited away before detectives could get hold of them, prosecutor Andrew Edis told the Old Bailey, England's Central Criminal Court.
Brooks was arrested in July 2011 and later charged with conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails on mobile phones, authorising illegal payments to public officials and perverting the course of justice by hampering the police inquiry. She denies the charges.
Her personal assistant Cheryl Carter, her racehorse trainer husband Charlie, and Mark Hanna, ex-head of security at News International, also deny charges of perverting the course of justice.
The trial heard last week that three senior former journalists from the News of the World had admitted conspiracy to tap phones of politicians, celebrities, and others.
The prosecution revealed Brooks was having an affair with Andy Coulson, who also edited the News of the Worldand later became Cameron's media chief.
Coulson is on trial over the phone-hacking charges and agreeing to buy royal phone directories from a police officer. He denies the accusations and the trial, which is due to last six months, continues.