So Stuart Kuttner proposed a 50 per cent cut to the £100,000 a year paid to phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire and can’t remember why it was rejected. Interesting!
Day 86, Part 3:
Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, told a court today that he would have told any reporter asking to bribe police “
to clear off
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Fascinating that the managing editor can’t exactly remember whether he spoke to phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire who received over £1m from News International.
Day 86, Part 1:
Stuart Kuttner may have spoken on the phone to the News of the World’s phone hacking specialist Glenn Mulcaire, he told the Old Bailey today.
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A whole new advertising campaign is now available to Fairy Liquid courtesy of Charlie Brooks – the gentle washing up liquid that clears the inner stains on your character as well as your dishes!
Day 85, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks’s husband once drank a pint of washing up liquid, the Old Bailey heard today. In one of the most unexpected anecdotes at the phone hacking trial, Mr Brooks’s friend Sarah Bradstock recalled that one day she had found him “frothing at the mouth”.
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Revealed : The Pizza in Pizzagate
Day 85, Part 2:
The pizza at the centre of an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie was probably a Large Italian Supreme with an extra portion of garlic bread, the Old Bailey heard today.
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The story of Charlie Brooks’ missing bag stowed under a News International desk
Day 84, Part 2:
A News International administration assistant helped place a bag belonging to Charlie Brooks into two bin bags and stowed the property under her desk at the newspaper group’s HQ for hours while Mr Brooks’s wife Rebekah was under arrest, a court heard today.
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Another defendant too ill to continue giving evidence in the hacking trial.
Day 83
: Clive Goodman, former royal editor of the News of the World, is still too unwell to continue giving evidence at the phone hacking trial, the jury was told today.
Mr Goodman, who has recently had a heart operation, denies making payments to police officers to obtain copies of three royal phone directories found at his home seven years ago.
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A total denial from Mark Hanna, NI’s security chief, that he was part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks from the police investigation into phone hacking. He also says he has never heard of President Nixon’s Watergate. Really! Where’s this man been living all this time.
Day 83:
News International’s head of security today denied being part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks and the newspaper group from the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into phone hacking.
Mark Hanna, suspended on full pay by the newspaper company when he was charged in May 2012, said he would not commit a crime for anyone.
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Revealed by the defence; The hiding of the bags is all about keeping Charlie Brooks ‘ lesbian DVDs away from prying police eyes and not embarrassing Rebekah. Nothing about phone hacking!
Day 82, Part 1:
A security chief for Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group agreed to keep from the police a stash of pornography belonging to the husband of former chief executive Rebekah Brooks, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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Hanna’s defence: I didn’t know Rebekah Brooks had been arrested when I removed the bags. Indeed I can’t remember who told me and when!
Day 82:
News International’s head of security did not know Rebekah Brooks had been arrested on the day until hours after he allegedly hid evidence from detectives, he told the phone hacking trial today.
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Here Mark Hanna head of security at NI flatly denies claims by another witness that he destroyed incriminating documents to protect News International.
Day 81, Part 2:
News International’s head of security today denied burning documents that incriminated the company in his back garden.
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