Phone Hacking Trial: News International security chief kept pornography “stash” from police – Martin Hickman

Revealed by the defence; The hiding of the bags is all about keeping Charlie Brooks ‘ lesbian DVDs away from prying police eyes and not embarrassing Rebekah. Nothing about phone hacking!

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Mark HannaDay 82, Part 1:   A security chief for Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group agreed to keep from the police a stash of pornography belonging to the husband of former chief executive Rebekah Brooks, the phone hacking trial heard today.

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Phone Hacking Trial: Brooks’s bags removed before arrest known, NI security head tells trial – Martin Hickman

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!

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Mark HannaDay 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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Phone Hacking Trial: News International head of security denies burning “incriminating” documents – Martin Hickman

Here Mark Hanna head of security at NI flatly denies claims by another witness that he destroyed incriminating documents to protect News International.

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Mark HannaDay 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Charlie Brooks: I was advised not to respond to police questions – Martin Hickman

Charlie Brooks gets a grilling for being silent during his first police interview.

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Charlie BrooksDay 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Charlie Brooks “too sloppy” to notice hidden bags had not been returned – Martin Hickman

Too drunk to realise his bags with lesbian DVDs had not arrived- Charlie Brooks explanation after sharing six bottles of plonk

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Rebekah BrooksDay 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Charlie Brooks hid porn DVDs to avoid “Jacqui Smith moment”, court hears – Martin Hickman

So now we know why the prosecution released details of Charlie Brooks’ collection of lesbian porn DVDs- they are part of his defence case!

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Charlie Brooks 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Charlie Brooks: Rebekah lived in “paranoia” of police dawn raid – Martin Hickman

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.

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Rebekah and Charlie Brooks 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Brooks: I will “break the legs” of anyone poaching my PA, draft autobiography reveals – Martin Hickman

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.

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Brooks and CarterDay 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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Phone Hacking Trial: ‘Errors’ in account given to police by Brooks’s PA, trial hears – Martin Hickman

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!

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Brooks and Carter 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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Phone Hacking Trial: Brooks’ PA, Urgent archive request was to retrieve beauty clippings – Martin Hickman

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!

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Cheryl Carter 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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