Phone Hacking Trial: Brooks’ Defence Counsel begins closing speech – Martin Hickman

Blistering defence of Rebekah Brooks by her defence counsel, Jonathan Laidlaw who insists there was ” very little hacking” under her editorship.

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Rebekah BrooksDay 107:   The Crown’s case that Rebekah Brooks plotted to hack phones is “entirely circumstantial” and based on theory rather than evidence, her lawyer told the Old Bailey today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Prosecution; Brooks, Coulson and Kuttner knew all about phone hacking – Martin Hickman

Andrew Edis’s savage indictment of Brooks, Coulson and Kuttner over phone hacking.

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CoulsonBrooksKuttnerDay 106, Part 2:   Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Stuart Kuttner knew all about phone hacking from the time the News of the World targeted Milly Dowler and did nothing to stop it carrying on for years, the Old Bailey was told today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Jury to retire to consider verdicts on 9 June – Martin Hickman

Finally a date is set for the jury to retire and consider their verdict as Clive Goodman completes his evidence.

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??????????????????????? Day 106:  The jury in the phone hacking trial is set to retire to consider its verdicts on 9 June 2014, three weeks today, Mr Justice Saunders said this morning.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Security Plans for Princess Diana’s home found at Clive Goodman’s – Martin Hickman

More embarrassing revelations from Clive Goodman

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Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson And Others Arrive At Court To Enter Their Pleas On Bribery Of Officials ChargesDay 105, Part 2: Police security plans for Princess Diana’s former home were found at the home of a News of the World reporter when he was arrested by detectives for phone hacking, the Old Bailey heard today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Goodman, News International meddled in my prosecution to avoid truth about phone hacking – Martin Hickman

Wow! Goodman puts the boot in on the news of the world and phone hacking and by implication Andy Coulson

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Clive-GoodmanDay 105, Part 1: News International meddled in the original prosecution of Clive Goodman so that it could dodge the truth about the phone hacking, he claimed at the Old Bailey today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Goodman, Coulson kicked desk when I didn’t want to go on Prince Charles US visit – Martin Hickman

More insight into Andy Coulson from Clive Goodman over a Royal trip with Prince Charles.

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Clive GoodmanDay 104: Andy Coulson kicked a desk when he found out his royal editor did not want to accompany Prince Charles on a visit to the United States, the Old Bailey was told today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Royal Family members hacked almost every day by NOTW – Martin Hickman

Industrial scale hacking of the Royals laid bare by Clive Goodman -even on Christmas Day. No wonder Andy Coulson doesn’t want to know!

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William Harry KateDay 103, Part 2:   Current members of the Royal Family including Prince William were hacked almost every day by the News of the World, the phone hacking trial heard yesterday.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Coulson alleges that Goodman is not owning up to full scale of his hacking – Martin Hickman

Ah, so it is all Clive Goodman’s fault for not telling Andy Coulson about how much phone hacking he did! At least that’s what Coulson’s legal team want the court to know.

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Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson And Others Arrive At Court To Enter Their Pleas On Bribery Of Officials ChargesDay 103, Part 1:   Former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman is not owning up to the full scale of his phone hacking at the paper, Andy Coulson’s legal team claimed at the phone hacking trial today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Edis, Brooks would have had to be a “complete fool” not to suspect source was public official – Martin Hickman

Prosecutor doesn’t buy Brooks’ claim that she had no idea big cash payments for military exclusives were coming from well connected Ministry of Defence official. Hardly from ” someone in a pub in Aldershot” says Andrew Edis.

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Rebekah Brooks at the Old Bailey in MarchDay 102, Part 2: Rebekah Brooks would have had to have been a “complete fool” not to suspect that a Sun journalist’s “No 1 military contact” was a public official, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the phone hacking trial yesterday.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Edis, Brooks tried to keep her job while planning to hide notebooks – Martin Hickman

Savage criticism of Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie attempts to hide evidence from the police. Prosecutor Andrew Edis in his closing address says she was trying to keep her job as the hacking inquiry escalated.

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Brooks and CarterDay 102, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks was trying to save her job when she hatched a plan to hide her notebooks from detectives at the peak of the phone hacking scandal in July 2011, the Old Bailey heard today.

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