THE
TRIAL of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and other News International staff on
charges of phone hacking and trying to corrupt public official (misconduct in a
public office) began in London last Monday.
The
eight defendants deny the charges at the Old Bailey. The trial concerns allegations
of wrongdoing at the News of the World before it was closed down in July 2011
after claims that journalists had hacked the mobile phone of murder victim
Milly Dowler.
Brooks
was editor of the newspaper between 2000 and 2003 before being made editor of
the Sun. She went on to become the
chief executive of News International.
It
is alleged that she conspired with others at the newspaper to intercept
communications between October 2000 and August 2006 by listening to mobile
phone messages.
She
faces two further counts of allegedly making corrupt payments to public
officials and two final accusations that she allegedly conspired to pervert the
course of justice by removing and concealing evidence.
Coulson
faces the same alleged phone hacking charge as Brooks. He and Clive Goodman,
the newspaper’s former royal editor, face two counts of conspiring to make
corrupt payments to public officials.
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