Brooks has said that he had an "experienced lawyer" who had come to High Wycombe police station that day. He said he was very "pleased and fortunate" to have a "wise lawyer" on hand and that he took her advice not to answer any questions. Earlier during cross-examination Brooks had told the jury he wanted to speak to the police as soon as he discovered they had his possessions in order to explain that the contents of the computers were not relevant to their investigation and that they contained porn, plus a manuscript for a novel he was working on that he was desperate not to lose during a police search.
Edis put it to him that "an honest man" who felt he had caused problems for his family and Hanna would have seen the police interview as an opportunity to "make a clean breast of it". Brooks replied: "I assure you that is wrong.
I would argue that an innocent man is entitled to take legal advice. Brooks explained that he had watched a US golf tournament when the police arrived to search his Chelsea Harbour apartment. Edis put it to him that he was an "educated man, with experience of life". Brooks replied with a chuckle: "Thank you very much. The prosecutor pressed him on his version of events and said it was implausible that a man of his education and experience would have been "shocked into a coma" by the police search.
The jury heard that Brooks, as the husband of the then chief executive of News International, had two computers with NI security tags, had an NI email address, and had regular help from the IT department when he had computer problems. He also dined with James Murdoch, the then executive chairman and his wife Kathryn and discussed company matters.
In addition he also had a book deal with Harper Collins, a News Corp company, which he said he feared he would lose if Rebekah left the company. A police enquiry revealed that the News of the World had a routine practice of intercepting mobile phone messages of celebrities, politicians and other public figures.
The newspaper's reporter, Clive Goodman , and Glenn Mulcaire , a hired investigator, were convicted and jailed for intercepting the phone messages of members of the Royal Family in On 3 November , it was reported that Brooks had been arrested following an alleged assault on her husband.
She was released without charge, and the police took no further action. The Sun had been running a campaign against domestic violence at the time. The couple had spent the previous evening in the company of the former Cabinet Minister David Blunkett, who had resigned for the second time on that day.
At her trial in , it was revealed that Brooks and her colleague Andy Coulson had an affair between mid to around , during her marriage to Kemp. In Brooks's entry in Who's Who she stated that she had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, but did not claim to have a degree, and did not later answer questions about this.
In a Spectator article, Stephen Glover suggested that, since she was working at the age of 20 for the News of the World, "we can safely assume that she did not study at the Sorbonne in any meaningful way". In , Brooks was awarded an honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts, London, for her contribution to journalism.
She attended the London College of Communication, now part of the university, as a student. In January , she returned to The Sun, replacing her former boss David Yelland , to become its first female editor.
Soon after becoming editor, Brooks ran the headline "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up" concerning the mental health problems of former heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno. The next day The Sun ran a word reply from the head of the mental health charity SANE and since then has adopted a style guide on covering mental health stories prepared by the same charity.
Brooks and her husband spent a day with the head of SANE and made donations to the charity. During a March appearance before the House of Commons Select committee on Culture, Media and Sport as part of an inquiry into privacy issues, Brooks stated that her newspaper had paid police for information. Alison Clark, the director of corporate affairs at News International, later stated, "It is not company practice to pay police for information. Brooks has been chairman of the organisation Women in Journalism and has served as a judge for the "Guardian Student Media Awards" in November and the tenth annual Police Bravery Awards in July , the latter sponsored by The Sun.
Brooks replied "We have paid police for information in the past". Andy Coulson stepped in to say that payments were only made lawfully. The Sun, of which Brooks was editor, subsequently ridiculed Chris Bryant in a number of articles, starting with one about a photograph of him in his underpants from a gay dating website.
Brooks later claimed that in her response to Bryant's question she had merely been speaking about the widespread belief that payments had been made to police and denied having any knowledge of specific payments.
Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World from to when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was carried out by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence: that in the circumstances she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out by staff at the newspaper.
Therefore I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation. While it has been a subject of discussion, this time my resignation has been accepted". The Daily Telegraph reported that despite resigning from her position, Brooks remained on the company payroll and continued to receive her salary from News International, having been told by Rupert Murdoch to "travel the world on him for a year".
On 17 July , Brooks was arrested by police on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption allegations. Sixteen have been formally charged with crimes. Brooks's trial over the phone-hacking claims began on 28 October On 31 October , it was revealed she had had an affair lasting at least six years with Andy Coulson, another key figure in the phone-hacking scandal.
On 24 June , Rebekah Brooks was cleared of all charges related to the phone hacking. In January , it was announced she would become a board member at Tremor International Limited. The press have noted social ties between Brooks and various members of the Establishment. In , she borrowed a retired police horse from the Metropolitan Police which she kept on her Oxfordshire farm, where it was ridden by David Cameron.
Shortly before her arrest, she had an hour-long telephone conversation with Tony Blair. He offered to act as an unofficial advisor to Brooks and to Rupert and James Murdoch. Blair told Brooks that this arrangement should remain private. He offered her advice on how to deal with the phone hacking scandal.
Making reference to the Hutton Inquiry, which had cleared his government of wrongdoing related to the death of a biological warfare expert, Blair advised Brooks to set up an internal inquiry which would clear her of wrongdoing in the phone hacking scandal.
She was released without charge, and the police took no further action. Private Eye and The Independent [72] reported the couple had separated; this was not widely reported in the remainder of the British press. The 7 March issue of Private Eye refers to her "paramour", former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. She and Kemp divorced in They live in Churchill, Oxfordshire, and London. It was announced by Bell Pottinger that Rebekah and Charlie Brooks were expecting a daughter in early via a surrogate mother.
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