Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks remanded on bail
Published Jun 13 2012, 11:33 BST | By Andrew Laughlin
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Brooks, her husband Charlie Brooks and four others - including her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter - all appeared today at Westminster Magistrates Court on charges relating to Operating Weeting, the police investigation into phone hacking.
Mrs Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World, is facing three counts of alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
In a short hearing of only around eight minutes long, she was bailed until June 22.
The 44-year-old was charged last month by officers from Operation Weeting, and stands accused of conspiring to conceal documents, computers and electronic equipment from police, as well as allegedly removing seven boxes of material from the archive at News International.
She denies the offences, which allegedly occurred in July last year at the height of the hacking affair.
Her husband, the racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks and four former colleagues - Carter; chauffeur Paul Edwards; Mark Hanna, head of security at News International; and security consultant Daryl Jorsling - all face one charge of the same offence.
They have also all been bailed to appear at Southwark Crown Court on the same date.
As part of their bail conditions, Hanna, Edwards and Josling have been ordered not to speak to each other, and Hanna has been told not to go back to News International's Wapping headquarters.
Look at her hair she looks like a scarecrow. I bet Ross Kemp is having a chuckle at this.
July 25th 2012 at 3:02am
I hope she goes down but she has money and connections so she'll walk away from it @andrewmcb
June 13th 2012 at 2:19pm(+1 like)
Bail? Come on she is an obvious flight risk, she has known criminal acquaintances abroad.
June 13th 2012 at 12:20pm
But if she did flee it would be seen as an admission of guilt, which would makes things 100 times worse for Murdoch and his empire. It might even bring them down. Shall we club together and but her a one way ticket?
June 13th 2012 at 7:32pm