Another lapse of memory from Rebekah Brooks – can’t remember whether teased by rival piers Morgan over hacking her phone way back in 2004.
Day 66, Part 2:
Journalist and former chat show host Piers Morgan may have mentioned phone hacking in 2004, two years before detectives arrested two News of the World figures for intercepting the voicemails of the Royal Household, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Very interesting. Rebekah Brooks now admits her extreme interest in Milly Dowler’s disappearance but says nobody tells her of the police’s disclosure to News International that Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked by journalists at the News of the World
Day 66:
Rebekah Brooks agreed today she was “
extremely interested
” in Milly Dowler’s disappearance – but denied she knew the News of the World had hacked her phone.
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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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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 admits she offered ex Royal correspondent and hacker Clive Goodman a job back at the Sun to prevent him going to an industrial tribunal and disclosing that he believed phone hacking was rife at News International. Interesting!
Day 58, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks offered a phone hacker a job after he came out of prison to stop him alleging widespread hacking at the News of the World, she told the phone hacking trial today.
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Another phone hacking denial from Rebekah Brooks- this over Blunkett’s affair
Day 58:
The Sun did not rely on phone hacking to establish the identity of Home Secretary David Blunkett’s lover, the Old Bailey heard today.
Kimberly Quinn was named by the redtop as being Mr Blunkett’s partner on Monday 16 April 2004, the day after its Sunday sister the News of the World broke the news of the affair between the Labour politician and the married woman.
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Second denial re Milly Dowler story from Rebekah Brooks
Day 57, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks today denied ordering newspaper executives to remove a reference to a hacked voicemail from a story about Milly Dowler.
The News of the World changed a story on 13 April 2002 about a voicemail left for the missing 13-year-old after police questioned its veracity.
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Rebekah Brooks defence: I learned about the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone from The Guardian. Fascinating.
Day 57, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks today denied any involvement in the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone. Giving evidence at the Old Bailey, Mrs Brooks said she had not known that the schoolgirl’s voicemail had been intercepted days after her disappearance in 2002.
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Amazing how £92,000 a year is so much small beer – £1000 a week payments not big enough to bring to the attention of the editor.
Day 56, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks did not know that Glenn Mulcaire was on a £92,000-a-year contract with the News of the World, she told the phone hacking trial today. The paper had an annual £30 million editorial budget when she was editor.
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Fascinating that Mulcaire accessed Brooks’ and Coulson’s emails. Should learn to spell name properly though.
Day 53, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks asked to chat to her former husband about phone hacking a fortnight before the scandal about the interception of Milly Dowler’s voicemail hit the headlines.
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