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Phone-hacking trial: Brooks offered convicted phone-hacker a job to avoid 'damaging headlines'

on Feb 26, 2014 | 0 comments

By James Doleman

  • Brooks “surprised and confused” at Clive Goodman arrest
  • Her own phone was hacked by Mulcaire over 18 month period
  • Police asked her to be witness for prosecution
  • Phone-hacker received over £1m from News of the World, police believed
  • Job offered to Goodman after prison “to avoid damaging headlines,” Brooks claims

Court resumed after lunch and the defence moved on from its questioning of Rebekah Brooks on the events of 2003 to the arrests of Sun journalist Clive Goodman and phone-hacker Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006. Brooks told the court she was in Italy when she heard about the arrests and may have been informed by Read full story ›

Source: The Drum