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Rebekah Brooks pleads not guilty to charges related to phone hacking Rebekah Brooks pleads not guilty to charges related to phone hacking
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Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, has pleaded not guilty to a series of criminal charges relating to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, has pleaded not guilty to a series of criminal charges over a nine-year period when she edited the News of the World and the Sun, and latterly ran the newspaper publisher.
Her husband Charlie Brooks and nine others also pleaded not guilty to a range of charges relating to News of the World phone hacking, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and unlawful payments to officials at a hearing at Southwark crown court on Wednesday. Brooks pleaded not guilty to five charges relating to three separate police investigations on Wednesday at Southwark crown court, where she appeared alongside a number of other defendants including her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of David Cameron.
Brooks pleaded not guilty to charges relating to three separate police investigations, including conspiring to pervert the course of justice by concealing evidence from the police around the time of her arrest in July 2011 in relation to alleged phone hacking, and allegations connected to unlawful payments to public officials. She pleaded not guilty to one charge relating to an alleged conspiracy to hack phones between October 2000 and August 2006 and not guilty to two further charges relating to an alleged conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office by paying public officials money for stories.
The former newspaper boss and confidante of Rupert Murdoch also pleaded not guilty in relation to allegations of conspiring to hack into the mobile phone voicemails of "well known people and/or those associated with them" between 2000 and 2006, including that of murdered teenager Milly Dowler. The former News International chief also pleaded not guilty to two further charges connected to allegations that she conspired to pervert the course of justice after she was arrested in July 2011 in relation to alleged phone hacking.
More details soon... Brooks's former secretary, Cheryl Carter, who sat in front of her in the dock, also pleaded not guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice.
The second charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice was made against Brooks along with six other defendants who sat with her in the glass dock and all of whom pleaded not guilty. These were her husband, News International director of security Mark Hanna, security officer Lee Sandell, chauffeur Paul Edwards and her former bodyguard, David Johnson.
A number of former News of the World executives and journalists were also in court on Wednesday facing one charge relating to phone hacking arising from the Metropolitan police's Operation Weeting.
The paper's former managing editor Stuart Kuttner, reporter James Weatherup and ex-royal reporter Clive Goodman all pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Court number 4 was packed with journalists and lawyers sitting in front of Mr Justice Saunders, who recently took charge of the cases arising from the phone-hacking scandal.
Among those forced to stand after queuing for an hour were the Labour MP Tom Watson who was at the vanguard of parliament's investigation into News of the World phone hacking and Mark Lewis, the solicitor representing alleged phone hacking victims.
The crown told the court it had changed the indictment in relation to alleged phone hacking to combine all of the original 19 charges into one.
Brooks sat throughout the two-hour hearing talking to Kuttner and taking notes on the back of a blue envelope.
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