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Phone-hacking trial: 'They didn't need to arrest me,' Rebekah Brooks tells court

on Mar 11, 2014 | 0 comments

By James Doleman

  • Mulcaire was used to track down “Bulger killers”
  • Brooks contacted Ross Kemp to talk about phone-hacking
  • “I didn’t think they needed to arrest me,” defendant tells court
  • “Don’t believe everything you read on Twitter,” judge jokes to witness

When court resumed after the lunch interval, Andrew Edis QC, lead prosecution counsel, continued his cross-examination of defendant Rebekah Brooks on her knowledge of phone-hacking during her time as editor of the now defunct News of the World and the Sun. He began by showing the witness notes seized from convicted phone-hacker Glenn Mulcaire listing suspected paedophiles being investigated by the News of the World. Edis Read full story ›

Source: The Drum