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Interesting conundrum that The Sun had no rules about payments to public officials because it knew they were illegal yet Rebekah Brooks is happy to pay out tens of thousands to people without asking who was receiving the money.
Day 65:
The Sun under Rebekah Brooks’s editorship had no written rules controlling the payment of money to public officials, she told the phone hacking inquiry today.
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An extraordinary email exchange between Rebekah Brooks (then Wade) and her ” good friend ” Andy Coulson has been released by the Crown Prosecution Service and published by Peter Jukes.
Exchanged on the day Royal reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire pleaded guilty to phone hacking in the ” rogue reporter ” case in 2006, it reveals an extraordinary plan to leak the fact that Rebekah’s phone and the phone of Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail have been hacked by Mulcaire.
Coulson is cool on the idea while Rebekah, who appears to be paranoid about Guardian Media getting the story, seems pretty jittery. A case of fear and loathing in Fleet Street.
You can read the full short exchange on the Peter Jukes blog.
Extraordinary amnesia by Rebekah Brooks over the Blunkett lover story – did Andy Coulson who she was having an on off affair herself tell her or not?
Day 64, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks was unable today to remember how The Sun established the identity of Home Secretary David Blunkett’s lover hours after the News of the World being edited by her close friend Andy Coulson revealed the relationship.
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Rebekah Brooks admits she could trust Andy Coulson with ” any confidence” at time of phone hacking.
Day 64, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were so close at the time of the Milly Dowler story that he could trust her with any confidence, she told the phone hacking trial today.
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Further admissions that Rebekah Brooks took no action on phone hacking stories -except to agree a £1m deal with Max Clifford to protect the group’s reputation over his hacking claims.
Day 63, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks did not inquire into the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World while chief executive of News International despite fresh evidence suggesting the practice was widespread, the Old Bailey heard today.
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This seems on the surface a significant admission
Day 63, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks knew that the deputy prime minister John Prescott and other high-profile individuals were potential victims of phone hacking in 2006, five years before News International stopped blaming voicemail interception on a single royal editor, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Extraordinary Rebekah Brooks says she knew nothing about Charlie Brooks stashed bags containing lesbian porn DVDs and a newsletter about pedigree pigs
Day 62, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks had no knowledge of an attempt by her husband Charlie to hide his bags at the time she was arrested, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Rebekah Brooks friends revealed.
Day 62, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks received messages of support from politicians and journalists, and death threats from the public, in the days after the Milly Dowler story broke, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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So The Guardian cannot be blamed for closing the News of the World over Milly Dowler. There already was plan to close it as part of the move to take over BSkyB.Interesting admission.
Day 61, Part 2:
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group considered closing the News of the World a month before the Guardian disclosed it had targeted missing girl Milly Dowler, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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So Rebekah Brooks did know 18 months before it became public that Clive Goodman was no rogue reporter and was prepared to offer a deal to Max Clifford to save News International’s reputation.
Day 61, Part 1:
News International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks knew that the company’s lone “rogue reporter” defence against phone hacking was “shaky” a year and a half before it changed its public position, the Old Bailey heard today.
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