A man in charge of a £30m budget paid all his hacks expenses on trust -fascinating insight into business methods.
Day 88, Part 2: One of Rupert Murdoch’s senior executives did not check payments by the News of the World’s reporters because he trusted them, he told the phone hacking trial 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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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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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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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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Now we have Rebekah’s 70 year old mum rallying to her daughter’s defence!
Day 68:
Rebekah Brooks’s 70-year-old mother took the witness stand at the Old Bailey today to give evidence for her daughter.
Called by Mrs Brooks’s legal team, Deborah Weir said that her daughter’s PA Cheryl Carter had not arrived with any boxes when she visited the Brooks’s home in the Cotswolds at the height of the phone hacking scandal.
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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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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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