Phone-hacking trial: Memories, number one contacts and rubber stamps
- Brooks denies having a “bad memory”
- Agreed she was sometimes just a “rubber stamp” over cash payments
- Ex-military columnist also “sold information” to Sun, court hears
When court resumed Judge Saunders asked defendant Rebekah Brooks if she felt “inhibited” about asking senior journalists about the nature of their sources. Brooks replied that she didn’t and did not “take” from the emails that the source was a public official.
Andrew Edis QC, for the prosecution, continued his cross-examination of the defendant by asking about the conviction of former News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman for phone hacking, which he funded through cash payments Read full story ›
Source: The Drum




