Charlie Brooks gets a grilling for being silent during his first police interview.
Day 81:
Charlie Brooks today rejected claims that he stayed silent during a police interview so that he could “invent” a story later to explain away why he hid evidence from detectives.
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Too drunk to realise his bags with lesbian DVDs had not arrived- Charlie Brooks explanation after sharing six bottles of plonk
Day 80, Part 2:
Charlie Brooks was “too sloppy” after drinking red wine to notice that the bags he had hidden from police had not been returned to him as planned, the Old Bailey heard today.
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So now we know why the prosecution released details of Charlie Brooks’ collection of lesbian porn DVDs- they are part of his defence case!
Day 80:
Charlie Brooks told the phone hacking trial today that he hid his bags from police because he was worried that the discovery of his pornography collection could lead to a “Jacqui Smith moment.”
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It is amazing that according to hubbie Charlie Rebekah Brooks main fear was the ” killer photograph ” – of her being taken away in handcuffs and making the front page of a tabloid. This is the sort of thing dished out by the tabloids themselves – so must believe they are very potent.
Day 79:
Rebekah Brooks lived in “paranoia” that she was about to be dawn raided by police and that a picture of her in handcuffs would end up in the papers, her husband Charlie told the phone hacking trial today.
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Amazing! A sneak preview of Rebekah Brooks’ autobiography is read in court praising Cheryl Carter for her 16 years service and meticulous memory while Brooks has told the court Cheryl was scatty and she once confused MI5 with MFI in talking to Rupert Murdoch.
Day 78, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks joked that she would “
break the legs
” of anyone poaching her long-serving PA Cheryl Carter, the hacking trial heard today.
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Rebekah Brooks’ PA seems to have told quite different stories to the police over the crucial removal of her boss’s notebooks just before the News of the World closed!
Day 77:
Rebekah Brooks’s PA today admitted errors in her account to police about the removal of seven boxes of notebooks central to a charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice against her and her former boss.
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Rebekah Brooks PA’s defence about the sudden removal of all her boss’s notebooks is interesting. It is all about taking out her beauty column notes to make more space for Rebekah’s archive!
Day 76:
Rebekah Brooks’s PA was urgently trying to contact a News International archivist on the day the News of the World’s closure was announced because she wanted to withdraw boxes containing clippings about her career in the beauty industry, the hacking trial heard today.
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The second defendant to suffer stress in this trial.
Day 74:
Former News of the World journalist Clive Goodman was taken to hospital today, minutes after he was due to continue giving evidence at the phone hacking trial today.
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Exaggeration can be a journalist’s foible.
Day 73, Part 2:
At the phone hacking trial today Clive Goodman admitted exaggerating the importance of his stories, but denied being “over-dramatic” or “florid” in his dealings with the News of the World executives.
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An amazing new fact : Clive Goodman, who received E215,600 over a five and a half year period to pay his contacts,managed not to draw a single penny from his bank account for two years between 2004 and 2006. He denies pocketing any of the contacts money for himself. All I will say is that sadly I have heard ( not to do with this case ) of this practice among a few journos in Fleet street.
Day 73:
Former royal editor Clive Goodman today denied pocketing cash payments from the News of the World meant for his sources.
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Westminster Confidential 