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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to be charged over phone hacking

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking. The former-News of the World editors will  be charged in connection with the accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages. Others facing charges are former NoW managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former assistant editor Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, former assistant editor James Weatherup and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

All of the suspects apart from Mr Mulcaire will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority between October 3, 2000, and August 9, 2006.

The charge carries a sentence of up to two years in prison or a fine.

Mr Mulcaire faces four charges relating to Milly, Mr Gilchrist, Delia Smith, and Charles Clarke.

Alison Levitt QC, (pictured above) made the announcement on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service.

The eight, who will be charged when they answer police bail later, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 16 August

Rebekah Brooks is Charged

15 Tuesday May 2012

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Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the phone-hacking inquiry. Three of Mrs Brooks’s staff, and News International security head Mark Hanna, are also charged with the same offence.

She is charged with conspiring with her 49-year-old husband, personal assistant Cheryl Carter, chauffeur Paul Edwards, security man Daryl Jorsling, and News International head of security Mr Hanna to “conceal material” from police between 6 and 19 July.

In a second charge Mrs Brooks and Ms Carter are accused of conspiring to remove seven boxes of material from the News International archive between 6 and 9 July.

In a third charge, Mr and Mrs Brooks, Mr Hanna, Mr Edwards and Mr Jorsling are accused of conspiring to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from police officers between 15 and 19 July.

They will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 13 June.