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Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

Post  candyfloss on Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:43 am

24 July 2012 Last updated at 11:29



Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

The revelation Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked led to the closure of the tabloid newspaper in 2011
Eight people will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

They include the former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, and the PM's ex-head of communications Andy Coulson.

Seven are charged with conspiring to intercept communications between 13 October 2001 and 9 August 2006.

The Met Police launched an inquiry after details of phone hacking at the News of the World emerged last year.

Mrs Brooks will face two charges - one relating to the alleged accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone messages.

Mr Coulson is also accused in relation to allegedly hacking into Milly's phone, CPS legal adviser Alison Levitt QC said.

The revelation that the schoolgirl's phone had been hacked led to the closure of the tabloid newspaper in July last year.

The others facing charges are former NoW managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former assistant editor Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, former assistant editor James Weatherup and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

Ms Levitt said that 13 files had been passed to the CPS by the Metropolitan Police and she had decided that there was a "realistic prospect of conviction" in relation to eight of them.

All of the suspects apart from Mr Mulcaire will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority.

Prosecutors will allege that more than 600 people, including Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, were victims of this offence.

The CPS said it would be taking no further action against five others.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18961228#

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Re: Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

Post  candyfloss on Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:45 am

So this is another charge on top of the other charges for attempting to pevert the course of justice. Deary me.

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t5014-rebekah-brooks-charged-with-perverting-the-course-of-justice?highlight=rebekah+brooks

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Post  ShuBob on Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:31 pm

How the mighty have fallen! Indeed, they haven't been found guilty of any charges but they are now getting a taste of the misery they caused many people in their days at the helm of NoTW.

Everyone gets their comeuppance in the end!

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Post  ShuBob on Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:43 pm

Ross Hall, transcriber of the infamous "For Neville" email and now husband of Lori Campbell has been told he won't be charged as part of the phone-hacking investigation. One wonders if he cut a deal with Scotland Yard to sing like a canary in return for his "freedom".

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Post  Ashwarya on Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:59 pm

How is it that these ultra-powerful people with all their connections can get charged with such serious crimes, and still the McCanns get away scot free? In fact only this morning I heard the whining Scouse voice on my radio (probably something to do with this story, although of course "their phones weren't hacked"). Let's hope one of these accused is able to shed some light on the Maddie affair in court.

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Post  winjoy on Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:47 pm

Ashwarya wrote:How is it that these ultra-powerful people with all their connections can get charged with such serious crimes, and still the McCanns get away scot free? In fact only this morning I heard the whining Scouse voice on my radio (probably something to do with this story, although of course "their phones weren't hacked"). Let's hope one of these accused is able to shed some light on the Maddie affair in court.


Exactly my thoughts Ashwarya - and my sympathies for having to listen to that ghastly whining Scouse voice this morning. I expect she was pushing her bewk in our faces as much as anything else....

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Post  candyfloss on Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:39 pm

Leveson inquiry: Rebekah Brooks criticises Met police chief


Former News International chief says deputy assistant commissioner's testimony led to 'highly damaging' reporting





Rebekah Brooks said she had no opportunity to deal with the issues at the time because she had not been granted core participant status. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

Rebekah Brooks has launched an attack on the police chief in charge of the investigations into allegations of wrongdoing at the Sun and the News of the World.



The former chief executive of News International said the Leveson inquiry testimony of Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers in February involved unsubstantiated allegations and led to "highly damaging press reporting" in relation to Scotland Yard's ongoing investigations into phone hacking, corruption of public officials and computer hacking.



In a closing witness statement to the Leveson inquiry, Brooks also criticised the testimonies of three other witnesses, Brian Paddick, a former Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner, and former police officer and Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames. She has also criticised former News of the World colleague Paul McMullan.



Brooks invited the inquiry to conclude that these three witnesses either made assertions "for which there is little or no evidence", "gave evidence as to matters which are yet to be tested in court", or "appeared to be using the inquiry to settle old scores".



She said she had no opportunity to deal with the issues at the time because she had not been granted core participant status at the inquiry, which allowed advance sight of witness statements and the opportunity to have statements redacted or publicly challenged by counsel to the inquiry.



The former News International boss urged Lord Justice Leveson not to repeat such allegations made by these witnesses in his final report.



Brooks's statement was published the day after she learned she found out she is facing charges over phone hacking in addition to the charges of perverting the course of justice announced in May.



She went on to say that Akers's evidence "went well beyond the proper requirements of the inquiry. It was, in particular, untempered by caution of the care that should have been given in making accusations against those who might have explanations or defences, or where, as may often happen in criminal proceedings, the evidence is insufficient to prove the suspicion, or is inadmissable".



Brooks said Akers had delivered a view of the ongoing investigation "as if it was fact" and when "highly identifiable and high-profile suspects were the subject of active proceedings".



The former editor of the Sun also returned to the circumstances surrounding the revelations about Gordon Brown's son's cystic fibrosis. Brooks had told the inquiry when she testified that the newspaper ran a story in 2006 with the express permission of the Browns.



But Brown, when he appeared at the inquiry, claimed that was untrue. In her witness statement, Brooks said News International had information which it could not divulge to Brown and therefore the former prime minister had "reached a conclusion on the basis of less than the full picture, against a background of a plain grievance against News International because of the way that he perceives he was treated in connection with the 2010 general election".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/25/leveson-inquiry-rebekah-brooks?newsfeed=true

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Re: Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

Post  candyfloss on Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:48 pm

Rebekah Brooks has been formally charged today with phone hacking...............

8:31pm, Thu 2 Aug 2012

Rebekah Brooks formally charged with phone hacking

Last updated Thu 2 Aug 2012


Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was formally charged with phone hacking today and will appear in court next month, Scotland Yard said.

Brooks, who is 44, answered bail at Lewisham police station tonight and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on September 3.

Six others journalists from the News of the World, including David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson, have been officially charged and will appear at the same court on August 16.

The seven stand accused of one general charge of alleged phone hacking between October 2000 and August 2006 that could affect as many as 600 victims.

Brooks, of Churchill, Oxford, and Coulson face specific charges of illegally accessing the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-08-02/rebekah-brooks-formally-charged-with-phone-hacking/

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