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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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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Over the weekend my intrepid colleague, Mark Conrad, broke a very detailed story on Exaro News and in The People, about a pornographic child abuse video seized by the customs way back in 1982. You can read the full story on both sites.
The customs officer, Maganlal Solanki, then handed over the tape to senior managers at Customs and Excise. They took over the case. took no further action, and are understood to have passed the video cassette to the Security Service, MI5. No one was prosecuted.
The officer says a prominent Tory Cabinet minister was on that tape but he is still too scared to discuss what he is doing and there still seems an attempt to gag him.
Again like the scandal at Elm Guest House, the failure to pursue paedophile Sir Cyril Smith, and what is being revealed about the scale of sexual abuse in a Durham detention centre, the police and the security services and special branch( who certainly knew about Smith) have questions to answer.
Why is it taking 40 years for the police to review cases ? It begs the question of whether it will be covered up yet again. Or have people destroyed all the evidence?
Given such a video would have provided prima facie evidence for any prosecution why was nothing done about it and why was the person who brought it into Britain at Dover allowed to go on his way?
The more we look into this murky area, the more unanswered questions there are and the nastier the cover up.
Commend him for announcing the Savile investigation
This week Michael Gove, the education secretary, took the bold step of announcing to Parliament investigations into historic child sex abuse by Jimmy Savile at local authority, Roman Catholic and charity children’s homes and schools.
His decision is to be commended and the full Parliamentary statement can be seen here. It names council homes in Bournemouth, Devon, Gloucestershire, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham.Nottinghamshire, Surrey and the London boroughs of Hounslow, Islington, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. It also names Barnados in Redbridge; the Henshaw school for the Blind in Leeds and the Notre Dame Grammar School in Leeds and Sevenoaks School in Kent.
The Savile scandal has been one of the worst child abuse scandals to come out affecting not only schools but the BBC and even Broadmoor Hospital. It also extended outside England to Jersey.
I hope that all the authorities do a thorough review and uncover every fact possible – even though it dates back to the 1960s,70s and 80s. It will also mean tracing the children who had been there. I hope also the authorities know that if they do approach people they must be given proper and adequate support – something that has been noticeably lacking in current historic paedophile inquiries I have been covering.
Nothing must be hidden. It is scandal in the unrelated historic paedophile inquiry in the London borough of Richmond ( which did not involve Savile) that it has taken over 40 years for anybody to be brought to court to answer such crimes. It should also look at whether Savile had any accomplices that allowed such things to happen. The time for cover up is over.
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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Amazing. Rebekah Brooks pa for 16 years Cheryl Carter, says she didn’t know there was a police investigation into hacking at News International until she read Nick Davies Milly Dowler phone hacking exclusive in The Guardian. Really!
Day 78:
Rebekah Brooks’s PA had no idea there was a police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World until the week the paper closed, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Westminster Confidential 