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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Rebekah Brooks: Turning Down MPs expenses story ” pretty high error of judgement”, while Cabinet minister Charles Clarke responsible for another leak, she claims Scotland Yard told her!
Day 60:
Stories for which the Sun paid a civil servant thousands of pounds could have come from a variety of legitimate sources rather than a public official, the paper’s former editor Rebekah Brooks said today.
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So Rebekah Brooks admits paying out cash to public officials without knowing who they were – and that her treatment of Clare Short, a former labour Cabinet minister, over her page three campaigns was ” cruel and harsh”.
Day 59:
One of Rupert Murdoch’s most senior executives told a court today that she authorised payments to public officials in return for information for stories in his British newspapers.
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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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