An index of all my ( rightly or wrongly) deemed BREAKING news tweets from the trial so far – compiled by Jon. Click on a trial date for the full Live twitter feed for that day.
All the defandants deny all the charges and the trial continues.
Wednesday 30 October 2013
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The Prosecution Opening Statement
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Guilty Pleas
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BREAKING: Edis: “Mr Mulcaire has also pleaded guilty this year in these proceedings to three counts of phone hacking..”
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BREAKING: Miskiw, Thurlbeck, Weatherup – News Editors have all pleaded guilty to count one ” #hackingtrial
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Thursday 31 October 2013
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The Prosecution Opening Statement continues
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Brooks and Coulson Affair
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BREAKING: “BROOKS AND COULSON having an affair that had been lasting at six years”
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David Blunkett records conversation with Coulson
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Edis: BREAKING: “Recordings of Blunkett revealed by tapes in the safe of the News International Laywer”
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Friday 1 November 2013
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The Prosecution Opening Statement continues
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Prosecution Counsel presents evidence for Count 2 – Misconduct
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BREAKING: Edis quotes 03 Goodman email to Coulson “if discovered selling stuff they end up on criminal charges, so do we.” #hackingtrial
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Prosecution Counsel presents evidence for Count 3 – Misconduct
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BREAKING: Goodman “any other source or audit trail.., could put them and me in prison.”
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Prosecution Counsel presents evidence for Count 5 – Misconduct
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The four tweets I marked BREAKING: 1/Four Guilty Pleas 2/Brooks Coulson affair 3/Tapes in NI Lawyers safe 4/Goodman emails to Coulson
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Monday 4 November 2013
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The Prosecution Opening Statement continues
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Planning the Sun on Sunday
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“I am ring fenced properly… if we don’t launch the Sun on Sunday this weekend…” BREAKING: 8th July 2011 SUN ON SUNDAY already planned
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Where Eagles Dare
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BREAKING: I’ve been told we can live tweet from day to day now, depending on evidence. #hackingtrial
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Timeline – Milly Dowler
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Giving evidence – Operation Weeting Detective Sergeant Gregory Smith
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BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks‘ Hollywood Cover-Up Code http://thebea.st/19vIj0L via @thedailybeast
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Thursday 7 November 2013
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Timeline – David Blunkett
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Giving evidence – Operation Weeting Detective DC Hargreaves
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BREAKING: NI Lawyer had copy of birth certificate of Kimberley Quinn‘s child in his safe
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Monday 11 November 2013
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Timeline – David Blunkett and Kimberley Quinn
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Further Prosecution evidence
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BREAKING: Max Clifford recorded the voice mail messages left by Blunkett on Sally Anderson’s voicemail and showed to Sunday People
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Tuesday 12 November 2013
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Timeline – Lord Prescott
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Trial interrupted by Harry Nilsson’s “Everyone’s Talking at Me”
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BREAKING: Log in details for Associated Press computer system and IT support line for Mail on Sunday in Mulcaire’s notes
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Timeline – Sir Paul McCartney
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Giving evidence – Operation Weeting Detective DC Hargreaves
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BREAKING: email shows Greg Miskiw writing to Sun journalist about Heather Mills phone ‘not being used’ and ‘nothing new’
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Wednesday 13 November 2013
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Timeline – Jude Law, Sienna Miller and Jade Schmidt
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Giving evidence – Operation Weeting Detective DC Hargreaves
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BREAKING: Evidence in court suggests NI hacking friend of Sienna Miller a year after Mulcaire arrested and convicted for phone hacking
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Timeline – Helen Asprey (aide to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge)
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Giving evidence – Operation Weeting Detective DC Scott
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BREAKING: Goodman emailed Coulson about P Harry’s health with “scanned from Asprey” (Royal Aide) NOTW article on medical problems next day
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Wednesday 20 November 2013
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Witness – Frances Carmen (former News desk secretary at the NOTW)
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Counsel for Ian Edmondson cross examines Frances Carmen
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BREAKING: 19/02/05 email to Kuttner, Coulson and Wallis says 2k payments to Mulcaire “has to stop… spoken about tis a million times”
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Thursday 21 November 2013
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Witness – Beverley Stokes
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Counsel for Andy Coulson cross examines Beverley Stokes
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BREAKING: Goodman email to Managing Editor PA about cash to officials says we “could all end up in jail if anyone traced their payments:
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BREAKING: Another email 21/01/06 from Goodman “Mr Farish…. because of his extremely sensitive job. Curtains for him and us…”
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Andrea Fletcher
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Andrea Fletcher
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BREAKING: Lewis writes back to Charlie Brooks: “Bryant is clearly making stuff up… He, other MPs, Panorama… attempt to target Rebekah”
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Monday 25 November 2013
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Witness – Fiona Makin (former PA to Stuart Kuttner)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Fiona Makin
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BREAKING: Makin from NOTW Managing Editors is shown a Euro Research contract for 92k Mulcaire’s company. She says: “I knew them by name.”
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Evidence on Andy Coulson
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Clive Goodman recorded conversation with Andy Coulson
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BREAKING: Coulson taped by Goodman from November 06 between arrest and guilty plea
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Timeline – Eimear Cook (wife of golfer Colin Montgomery)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Eimear Cook
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BREAKING: Eimear Cook had a conversation with Rebekah Brooks about ease of voicemail hacking in Nov 2004
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BREAKING: Cook alleges Brooks was talking about McCartney Mills argument in terms of ‘not having secure voicemail”
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Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines Eimear Cook
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BREAKING: Eimear Cook says Daily Mail piece by Kay and Minsky which gave the impression she was talking to them: “Completely untrue”
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Tuesday 26 November 2013
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Witness – Dom Loehnis (friend of David Cameron)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Dom Loehnis
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BREAKING: Prosecution calls Dom Loehnis about a party he attended on a Saturday night 2010 at Chequers for David Cameron’s 40th Birthday
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BREAKING: Brooks told Cameron friend didn’t think Coulson could survive phone hacking scandal back in 2010
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Scott
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Scott
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BREAKING: Crone email to Coulson says Brooks knew over 100 victims of phone hacking in 2006
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Thursday 28 November 2013
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Prosecution Evidence on Glen Mulcaire
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24 Hacking calls in one day
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BREAKING: on one day in 2006 News International landline made 24 hacking calls to Royal Aides and rival journalists
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Neil Wallis phone Hacked
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BREAKING: 18th of May 2006: calls to UVN of Neil Wallis – deputy editor of News of the World was hacked from News International landline
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Thursday 5 December 2013
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Witness – Operation Elveden Detective DC Briddon
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Briddon
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BREAKING: payments to Bettina Jordan-Barber from Sun employee “please delete this email after”
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Monday 9 December 2013
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Witness – Operation Elveden Detective DC Briddon
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Briddon
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BREAKING: Sun journalist to Brooks email on cash payments: “I’d like to keep this secret as the source is a serving police officer”
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Tuesday 10 December 2013
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Witness – Jonathan Spencer (Deputy Controller of Lord Chamberlain’s office)
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Counsel for Clive Goodman cross examines Jonathan Spencer
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BREAKING: Royal Chamberlain wasn’t told by police that Royal directories were found in Goodman’s house until 2012 2006 – six years later.
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Witness – Gregory Gillhan (Retired Police Officer)
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Counsel for Clive Goodman cross examines
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My previous BREAKING: on 6 year long failure to inform Palace tha Goodman had Royal Directories https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/410430250104152064 …
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Wednesday 11 December 2013
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Alan Pritchard
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Alan Pritchard
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BREAKING: “Long term. Sir Michael Peat has a mistress. Turning his mobile” Goodman email to Coulson in Jan 03
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Further Prosecution questions to DC Alan Pritchard
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BREAKING: Crone on Goodman “has to make clear… he’s not the guiding light behind everything GM did at NOTW over the years”
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BREAKING: Coulson email to Crone: “You say Mulcaire started working for us in 2000, I thought it went back further than that.
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BREAKING: Goodman to Coulson in Dec 06 on Prince Harry “Just finished the calls. Just need to go through tapes… will email you and Neil”
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Witness – Ambi Sitham
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Prosecution Counsel questions Ambi Sitham via Video Link
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BREAKING: Sitham claims Brooks and Morgan, then top tabloid editors, were very busy trying to finish off last details of front page splashes
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BREAKING: Sitham claims Morgan said to Brooks “I know what your splash is because I’ve been listening to your messages”
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BREAKING: Brooks responded to Morgan: “Been hacking into my phone again have you, Piers?”
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Thursday 12 December 2013
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Guest
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Guest
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BREAKING: Brooks was TWICE victim of phone hacking – in 2006 during Carytid and again in 2011 under operation Weeting
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BREAKING: the tasking of phone hacking of Coulson by Mulcaire is referenced to ‘Ian’
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Witness – Operation Elveden Detective DS Brian Cook
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Ian Edmondson Trial Postponed
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BREAKING: former NOTW news editor Ian Edmondson discharged from jury in #hackingtrial for separate trial at a later date
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Witness – Sir Michael Peat (Private Secretary to Prince Charles)
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Counsel for Clive Goodman cross examines Sir Michael Peat
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BREAKING: Sir Michael Peat says understood there was a “long standing tradition” of selling Green Books to the press ten years ago.
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Friday 13 December 2013
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Massey
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Counsel for Andy Coulson cross examines DC Massey
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BREAKING: Langdale, for Coulson, claims the “Do his phone” email about Calum Best is a request for billing info about Rav Singh’s phone
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Witness – Operation Weeting Detective DC Guest
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Counsel for Rebekah Brooks refers to Nick Brown Christmas Card
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BREAKING: Jury shown prejudicial Christmas Card by Laidlaw: Saunders: “I’m well aware this could increase the circulation of this…”
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Tuesday 17 December 2013
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Prosecution Evidence on Stuart Kuttner
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Third Stuart Kuttner Police Interview
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BREAKING: first Goodman mention of codename for Mulcaire – Matey – in email to Phil Hall in 1998
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BREAKING: Kuttner asked about such high value Mulcaire contract in 2002 “I would expect his was approved by then editor”
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Thursday 19 December 2013
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Prosecution Evidence on Royal Voicemails
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Kate Middleton Phone Hacked
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BREAKING: Kate Middleton hacked. “Hi baby it’s me” says Prince William in voice mail read in hackingtrial
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BREAKING: Prince William message to Middleton talks of being nearly shot in army exercise
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BREAKING: another Prince William voice message found in Mulcaire’s address: heavily redacted
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Prince Harry’s Phone Hacked
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BREAKING: Prince Harry‘s phone also hacked. False male voice claiming to be Chelsy
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BREAKING: Prince William joke “Chelsy” voicemail left on Prince Harry‘s phone read out in #hackingtrial
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Monday 6 January 2014
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Witness – Nick Mays (Archivist at New International)
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Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines Nick Mays
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BREAKING: NI archivist says that lawyers and police did nothing to protect or preserve Brooks archives even after her arrest
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Wednesday 8 January 2014
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Prosecution Case continues with Evidence on Cheryl Carter
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Giving Evidence – Operation Sasha Detective DS John Massey
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BREAKING: Carter says Brooks organised job as a secretary on Perth Sunday Times: “She spoke to John Hart… I’m going to be on £30k a year”
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Monday 13 January 2014
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Witness – DS John Massey (Operation Sasha Detective)
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Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Massey
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BREAKING: police were told by NI’s Management and Standards Committee Carter removed 7 boxes from archives – base of charge 6 #hackingtrial
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Tuesday 14 January 2014
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Witness – William Geddes (MD of ICP – International Corporate Protection)
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Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines William Geddes
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BREAKING: Security operatives called the missing returned Brooks bag ‘Pizzagate” Text: “can you talk ref Pizzagate”: Geddes confirms
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Wednesday 15 January 2014
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Witness – Fernando Nascimento (Cleaner at Chelsea Harbour)
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Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines Fernando Nascimento
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BREAKING: Lesbian Lovers was the magazine hidden the Jiffy Bag according to Counsel for Charlie Brooks
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Monday 20 January 2014
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Witness – Robert Hernandez (Concierge at News International HQ in Wapping)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Robert Hernandez
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BREAKING: security guard says Mark Hanna, head of Security, “dug a hole in the ground and burnt stuff” during NOTW closure
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Witness – Sgt Robert McDonald (Attended Chelsea Harbour after Bin Bag find)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Sgt McDonald
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BREAKING: A list of DVDS with various porn titles from Charlie Brook’s bag briefly shown – before journos could write them down
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Witness – DC Alan Pritchard (Operation Weeting Detective)
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Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines DC Alan Pritchard
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BREAKING: forensics expert identified several prints from NI head of security Mark Hanna on bin bags recovered from Brooks’ apartment
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Thursday 23 January 2014
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Witness – Superintendent Mark Mitchell (Senior Investigating Officer Operation Kilo)
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Prosecution Counsel questions Superintendent Mitchell
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BREAKING: complaint by Coulson’s solicitors about leak of his arrest to the Guardian led to police anti corruption operation Kilo
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Witness – DC Nunn (Operation Kilo detective)
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Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines DC Nunn
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BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks asked Times Editor James Harding to ask Crime Correspondent Sean O’Neil source for Milly Dowler story 05/07/11
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Witness – DS Hayley Broom (Operation Sasha Detective)
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Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines DS Hayley Broom
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BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks‘ Labour’s Lost it editorial for draft approval by James Murdoch shown to #hackingtrial jury
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Friday 24 January 2014
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Witness – DC Philip Stead (Operation Weeting Detective)
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Prosecution Counsel questions DC Stead
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BREAKING: data from Apple and News International confirms a phone called ‘Rebekah iphone’ in 2011 has never been recovered by policee
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BREAKING: police have also not recovered an iPad 2 called ‘Rebekah’s ipad’ at her Oxfordshire home around June 2011
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BREAKING: As well as iPhone and iPad Police have not recovered a Blackberry registered to Rebekah Brooks from June to September 2011
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BREAKING: TWO iPads, two or three iPhones, 3 Blackberrys, and one HTC registered to Rebekah Brooks in 2011 never recovered by police
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Monday 27 January 2014
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Witness – Jude Law
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Prosecution Counsel questions Jude Law
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BREAKING: Back at the #hackingtrial Anthony Edis QC, counsel for the prosecution, calls Jude Law as his first witness on Count One.
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BREAKING: US hacking: “One of the numbers that appeared on the notes was an agent… and several other numbers I’d been loaned,” says Law
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A member of Jude Law’s family sold stories to the News of the World
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BREAKING: Jude Law learns in court for the first time a close family member received money for selling stories to NOTW.
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Witness – Dan Evans (Former Sunday Mirror and News of the World Journalist)
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Dan Evans name is added to Count 1
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BREAKING: Back at the #hackingtrial after break. Anthony Edis QC adds a new name to the Count One Conspiracy – Dan Evans
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BREAKING: Andrew Edis QC for the crown calls Dan Evans, former NOTW journalist, as a witness
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Dan Evans has pleaded guilty to four counts
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BREAKING: 10th September last year Dan Evans pleaded guilty to four counts of phone hacking.
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BREAKING: Count 2 Dan Evans pleaded Guilty to phone hacking 2004-10 at News of the World
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BREAKING: 2008-10 Dan Evan pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office
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BREAKING: Count 4 Dan Evans pleaded guilty to making a false witness statement as a defendant in civil proceedings by Kelley Hoppen
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BREAKING: 29/08/12 Dan Evans entered in written agreement with the CPS and made first witness statement: made two subsequent statements
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Prosecution Counsel questions Dan Evans
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BREAKING: “What sort of work did you do at Sunday Mirror?” DAN EVANS “I was a news reporter… and latterly hacking people’s voice mails
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BREAKING: Evans given a list of famous people & told by Senior Sunday Mirror exec “this is your job, you have to hack and crack the numbers”
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Dan Evans meets Andy Coulson
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BREAKING: Dan Evans claims he told Andy Coulson all about his voicemail hacking skills at breakfast meeting.
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BREAKING: “I can get you big exclusive stories cheaply,” Dan Evans tells court about meeting with Coulson and his phone hacking skills.
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BREAKING: email from NOTW journalist to Dan Evans on first day of work lists names, numbers and targets “I’ll file over stuff later”
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Dan Evans given list of Phone Hacking tragets
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BREAKING: Dan Evans says that between 05 and arrest of Mulcaire he would hack phones ‘most days” at NOTW
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BREAKING: Dan Evans said he hacked “100 people” at NOTW and went back to their voicemails “thousands of times”
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BREAKING: Dan Evans said NOTW had a budget for “inquiry agent” TDI – trace direct international (ELI) – a couple of grand a week on nos
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BREAKING: “Pretty anything private” Dan Evans tells #hackingtrial could be got by ‘inquiry’ agents hired at £2k a week by NOTW
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Tuesday 28 January 2014
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Witness – Dan Evans (Former Sunday Mirror and News of the World Journalist)
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Evans goes back to Phone Hacking
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BREAKING: Evans also annotated the long list of hacking targets – 26 pages long – given to him by another NOTW journo.
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Evans hacks Daniel Craig’s phone
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BREAKING: Dan Evans hacked Daniel Craig‘s voicemail: “Hi it’s me. Can’t speak. I’m with Jude at Grouchos.” Identified Sienna Miller
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Evans says he told Andy Coulson about Daniel Craig hacking
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BREAKING: Evans played Andy Coulson tape of voicemail hacking of D Craig. “Andy came over… wanted to hear the tape… XXXX was around…”
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BREAKING: Dan Evans claims Andy Coulson directly told him to make Daniel Craig tape look like it was delivered anonymously
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Daniel Craig story Breaks
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BREAKING: 25/10/05 on failed attempt to hack Rolf Harris and all his details. “Editor loved the idea of turning him over”
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Dan Evans is caught Hacking
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BREAKING: Dan Evans was never sacked for phone hacking, paid salary, and was only made redundant in 2011 when NOTW closed
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Wednesday 29 January 2014
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The Prosecution Case Continues
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Civil Proceedings against Dan Evans for the Hacking of Kelly Hoppen
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BREAKING: Dan Evans alleges his false statement about sticky keys and hacking Kelly Hoppen was first inserted by News Int lawyers
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Thursday 30 January 2014
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The Prosecution Case Continues
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Dan Evans changes testimony on Sienna Miller
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BREAKING: Dan Evans changes his testimony over the tearful voicemail on Kelly Hoppen’s phone: may be Sienna Miller‘s sister not her
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Coulson questions being in office when Evans plays tape
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BREAKING: “Mr Coulson wasn’t in the office that day… wasn’t even in London that day,” Langdale says of talking to Coulson.
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Friday 31 January 2014
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The Prosecution Case Continues
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Evans asked about use of drugs
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BREAKING: Evan’s reveals he hacked Kate Moss’s phone at Sunday Mirror and a message declaring love left by Daniel Craig.
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BREAKING: “This was a tabloid way of life, part of our culture at the paper,” Evans says of “fiddling his expenses” on Daniel Craig story
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Witness – Sienna Miller
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Counsel for the Prosecution questions Sienna Miller
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BREAKING: Sienna Miller appears at the #hackingtrial via video link from New Orleans.
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Tuesday 4 February 2014
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Witness – DS James Guest (Operation Weeting Detective)
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Prosecution Counsel questions DS Guest
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BREAKING: via @martin_hickman: News International journalists and Glenn Mulcaire made 6,813 hacking calls to voicemails from 05/04 to 08/06
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The Judge outlines the expected timeframe of the Trial ahead to the Jury
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BREAKING: #hackingtrial prosecution case due to finish tomorrow. Jury likely to be considering verdict in Mid May
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Prosecution Evidence on News of the World Budgets
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More Prosecution documents presented to the Jury
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BREAKING: jury hears Brooks tried to strike a deal for £200K with Max Clifford around time of his civil litigation.
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Witness – DS James Guest (Operation Weeting Detective)
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Prosecution Counsel has more questions for DS Guest
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BREAKING: no evidence say police that Mulcaire engaged in any of the activities of a normal PI or inquiry agent
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Wednesday 5 February 2014
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The Last Items of the Prosecution Case
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Agreed facts on archived and deleted emails
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BREAKING: admissions at #hackingtrial show that the hard drive of Rebekah Brooks computer destroyed in June 2011
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Further Admissions
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BREAKING: Bettina Jordan Barber has already entered a plea she had committed misconduct in office
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Late BREAKING: news; final numbers show Rebekah Brooks was hacked 44 times by Glenn Mulcaire and Andy Coulson 21
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Wednesday 19 February 2014
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Rebekah Brooks email on Tony Blair offer of advise
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Tony Blair offers to be unofficial advisor
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BREAKING: email from Brooks to James Murdoch on 11/07/11 claims Tony Blair offered to help over phone hacking scandal day after NOTW closed
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BREAKING: Brooks email alleges Blair told her to set up a “Hutton Style report”
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BREAKING: Blair offered to be unofficial advisor to Brooks and Rupert Murdoch over phone hacking scandal according to email on 11/07/11
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BREAKING: Previously on that Brooks email she’d written to J Murdoch about NOTW last sales. He’d replied “What are you doing on email?”
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Thursday 20 February 2014
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The Defence of Rebekah Brooks Begins
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Jury directed to find Rebekah Brooks Not Guilty on Count 4
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BREAKING: Justice Saunders tells the #hackingtrial jury that Brooks has no case to answer on charge 4
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BREAKING: jury find Brooks not guilty of one misconduct charge. Four more charges remain.
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Witness – Defendant Rebekah Brooks
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Rebekah Brooks questioned on her upbringing and past career
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BREAKING: Brooks enters the witness box at the #hackingtrial and is sworn in
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Rebekah Brooks as Editor of the News of the World
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Rebekah Brooks appointed Editor of the News of the World
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BREAKING: Brooks says neither Mulcaire nor phone hacking was ever brought to her attention during editorship of NOTW.
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Friday 21 February 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Defence Continues on Financial Management
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More detail on Glenn Mulcaire contract
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BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks says Glenn Mulcaire freelance contract by Greg Miskiw should have been brought to her attention but wasn’t
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Rebekah Brooks asked about her Relationships
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Brooks relationship with Andy Coulson
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BREAKING: Brooks says she didn’t have a six year affair with Coulson; “It’s not true..”
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Rebekah Brooks asked about the Countess of Wessex
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Fake Sheikh Operation
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BREAKING: Brooks claims she got an interview with Countess of Essex by NOT running a NOTW story about her business partner.
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Tuesday 25 February 2014
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Rebekah Brooks question on the use of Mobile Phones and Hacking
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Aware of voicemail hacking
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BREAKING: Brooks says she was never asked to sanction phone hacking as part of an investigation.
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Rebekah Brooks question on the Hacking of Milly Dowlers Phone
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Shocked at the hacking of Milly Dowlers phone
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BREAKING: Brooks says she knew nothing of the NOTW hacking of Milly Dowler‘s phone until “4th July 2011 at 4 O’Clock”
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Mention of Voicemails removed from Milly Dowler article
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BREAKING: Brooks says she had no part to play in any of the changes to the Dowler story which omitted references to voicemails
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Wednesday 26 February 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Defence Continues on Count 1 – Phone Hacking
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David Blunkett story
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BREAKING: Brooks says “absolutely” did not know of the hacking of Blunkett’s voicemails
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BREAKING: Brooks says she named Kimberley Quinn as Blunkett’s lover at Sun through a “brief check of cuttings… gossipy items”
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Rebekah Brooks questioned on Arrests of Goodman and Mulcaire
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Brooks reaction to the arrest of Clive Goodman
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BREAKING: Brooks says she didn’t know Mulcaire was employed by NOTW “for a long time” until an internal investigation after his arrest
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Brooks Phone Hacked
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BREAKING: Brooks says her reaction to being hacking “I was pretty shocked… certainly surprised. I had a personal PIN code”
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Brooks meeting with Clive Goodman after Prison release
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BREAKING: Brooks says the idea of offering Clive Goodman a job post release from jail came from both her and Les Hinton.
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BREAKING: Brooks says she thinks Goodman was alleging “pretty much everybody” was involving in phone hacking at NOTW
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Thursday 27 February 2014
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Count 5 – Conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office
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Brooks questioned on illegal payments to MOD officials
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BREAKING: Brooks tells jury at #hackingtrial she did not know name of MOD source paid for Sun stories or that she was public official
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Payments to Public Officials
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BREAKING: Brooks says she understood only “an overwhelming public interest” can justify a public official being paid for information
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BREAKING: Brooks confirms she has paid public officials for info relating to their work from “half a dozen” occasions.
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BREAKING: Brooks says payments to MOD official from the Sun “should have been brought to my attention… so I could take responsibility”
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Payments to MOD Offocials
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BREAKING: Brooks says “we never received one complaint” from MOD or anyone in military about source of stories
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Friday 28 February 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Defence Continues on Count 5 – Illegal Payments
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Justice Saunders explains tiring nature of giving evidence
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BREAKING: hacking trial will finish at lunchtime because Rebekah Brooks is exhausted after 6 days in witness box
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Rebekah Brooks questioned on more examples of paying Public Officials
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Payment for picture of Cop Killer
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BREAKING: Brooks explains the two occasions she authorised or contemplated paying a public official.
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Monday 3 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Defence covers more evidence on Count 1 – Hacking
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Gordon Taylor’s Civil Action
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BREAKING: Brooks says she didn’t hear of the Gordon Taylor phone hacking suit the day before it appeared in the Guardian.
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Mulcaire Legal Order to name other Victims
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BREAKING: email in 2010 confirms News International “underwrote” Mulcaire funded his legal costs opposing disclosure of hacking at NOTW.
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Rebekah Brooks Defence moves onto Count 5 and 6 – Concealing Evidence
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Brooks question on Email Deletion
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BREAKING: Brooks says she wasn’t aware he emails were not being archived centrally after 2005
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Offices Swept
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BREAKING: Brooks says a person in the Labour Party found a sympathetic NI journalist to leak stories about phone hacking in 2011.
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Arrests and Desk Clearing
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BREAKING: Brooks told she could be arrested on conference call in April 2011.
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Tuesday 4 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Defence continues
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Brooks questioned by her Counsel Jonathan Laidlaw QC
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BREAKING: Blair emails Brooks “Let me know if there’s anything I can help you with. Thinking of you” Brooks “GB pals getting their own back”
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BREAKING: Brooks nothing was “got rid of” that weekend she was arrested.
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BREAKING: Brooks says the first time she heard about Charlie’s Bags being missing was on the Monday after Kingsley Napley.
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Wednesday 5 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Cross Examination by the Prosecution
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Brooks questioned by Anthony Edis QC for the Crown
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BREAKING: “Do you agree you settled with Max Clifford to stop Mulcaire naming names?” asks Edis. “Yes, in part” says Brooks.
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Thursday 6 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Cross Examination continues on Count 1 – Hacking
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Brooks questioned on Phone and Voicemail interception
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BREAKING: Brooks says that – in exceptional circumstances – she may in principle have agreed to intercept phone calls. But didn’t happen
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Brooks questioned on Blunkett Story
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BREAKING: Coulson called Brooks 15 minutes before meeting with Blunkett in Sheffield over Kimberley Quinn
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BREAKING: Brooks says Andy Coulson did not mention he was just about to see Blunkett “because he knew I was close to Blunkett”
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Monday 10 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Questioned on MOD Stories
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Rubber Stamp
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BREAKING: Brooks admits she was just acting as a ‘rubber stamp’ for payments to Number 1 Military Contact.
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Tuesday 11 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks faces more Cross Examination on Count 1 – Phone Hacking
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Private Investigators and Sarah’s Law
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BREAKING: Mulcaire paid £1,250 by NOTW for Sarah’s Law campaign tracing sex offenders.
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Wednesday 12 March 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Cross Examination continues on Count 6 and 7
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Books asked about News of the World Internal Investigation
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BREAKING: Lord Mandelson was approached to coach Rebekah Brooks for DCMS committee in wake of hacking scandal.
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7 Archived Boxes
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BREAKING: Brooks says she never knew of 7 archive boxes in her name even after Carter interviewed about them in November 2011
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Rebekah Brooks Cross Examined on Count 7
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Tony Blair text messages
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BREAKING: 16/07/11 Blair offers to help Brooks on DCMS appearance “Definitely” replies Brooks in texts.
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BREAKING: Blair texts Brooks “I may be some help in the commons” just before she is arrested.
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Thursday 13 March 2014
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The Defence of Clive Goodman Begins
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Clive Goodman’s Defence Case proceeds that of Andy Coulson
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BREAKING: Justice Saunders explains to the jury there’s been a change in the order of defendants. Clive Goodman precedes Coulson
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Count 2 – The Purchase of Royal Internal Telephone Directories
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BREAKING: Goodman denies every using information in Green Books for either phone hacking or blagging.
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BREAKING: Goodman says two directories came from, Kenneth Stronach, valet to the Prince of Wales – 98 and 93
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BREAKING: Goodman claims Princess Diana gave him one of the Royal Green Books in 1992
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BREAKING: Goodman says Diana wanted him to “see the scale of her husband’s household compared to hers…. being swamped by his household”
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Monday 17 March 2014
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Clive Goodman’s Defence Continues
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Jury Member unwell and is discharged
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BREAKING: Justice Saunders explains to the jury at the #hackingtrial that a juror was upset by an incident on Friday and was unable to come
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Payments to Fake Identities
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BREAKING: Goodman says cash payments to fake identities was customary for 20 years in NOTW since he arrived in 1986 and left 2006
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Cash payments to sources of Royal Stories
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BREAKING: Goodman says there is “no truth’ in Crown’s case he paid policeman. He called them that just to make sure he got published.
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Tuesday 18 March 2014
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Clive Goodman’s Defence Continues on Phone Hacking
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The Goodman and Mulcaire Project
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BREAKING: Goodman claims that Glenn Mulcaire had contacts with security services who were monitoring the Royals
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Goodman says he told Andy Coulson about the Royal Phone Project
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BREAKING: Goodman says he told Andy Coulson about Mulcaire’s project to “monitor three Royal phones” through hacking for £500 per week.
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The Editor’s Conferences
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BREAKING: Goodman says that another NOTW journo would “clearly” talk about messages to do with phone hacking in editorial conferences
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Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy Story
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BREAKING: Goodman says the only records of his emails are the ones he downloaded in 2006, and from an internal NI process the following year
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Wednesday 19 March 2014
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Clive Goodman’s Defence Continues on Green Books and Phone Hacking
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Goodman downloads emails from NI
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BREAKING: Clive Goodman downloaded NI emails after his arrest to “show that Andy knew what was going on” in regards to phone hacking at NOTW
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BREAKING: Goodman claim his lawyer Henri Brandman raised the topic of him being the “lone wolf” in phone hacking in 2006
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Cafe meeting of Coulson and Goodman
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BREAKING: Goodman says that Coulson said through his “influence” he could stop him going to prison for phone hacking in 2006
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Goodman’s Proof of Evidence
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BREAKING: Goodman claims he was introduced to a ‘spook’ by Mulcaire: intelligence service officer who apparently approved of hacking
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NI are given Goodman’s Case Documents
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BREAKING: Goodman’s lawyer defied his direct instructions and passed on prosecution phone hacking papers to News International
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BREAKING: Goodman says he was told by NI exec: “You’re not going to be dismissed as long as you don’t implicate other people”
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Sentencing Hearing
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BREAKING: Goodman told by NI lawyer “Andy would only take him back” if he didn’t name “others” in contact with Mulcaire in sentencing plea
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BREAKING: Goodman says he used probation officer to convey to judge the editorial approval of his activities with Mulcaire.
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Thursday 20 March 2014
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Clive Goodman is Cross Examined by Counsel for Andy Coulson
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Goodman questioned on Articles and Payments
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BREAKING: Goodman says he never listened to the Madonna album he described as ‘uninspired’ in NOTW in 2003 (bit of irony in that BREAKING)
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Tuesday 25 March 2014
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Defendant Cheryl Carter takes the Witness Stand
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Plans to Emigrate to Australia
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BREAKING: Rebekah Brooks paid for the Carter family flights to Australia for job interviews and migration in July 2011
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Wednesday 26 March 2014
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Cheryl Carter is Cross-examined by the Prosecution
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Electronic Devices
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BREAKING: Carter claims the first she knew of Operation Weeting was on the 4th July 2011
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Thursday 27 March 2014
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Cheryl Carter’s Cross-Examination Continues
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Carter questioned on the removal of 7 Boxes
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BREAKING: Carter says Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg didn’t tell police during search of News International where Brooks’ documents were
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Friday 28 March 2014
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The Defence of Charlie Brooks Begins
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The lead up to Rebekah Brooks Arrest
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BREAKING: Charlie Brooks says Rebekah was told it was “highly likely” she’d be arrested on return from holiday in April 2011.
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BREAKING: In discussions with James Murdoch and his wife, Charlie Brooks says they concluded Milly Dowler leak was “political hit” 04/07/11
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Rebekah Brooks Resigns
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BREAKING: Charlie Brooks says he was the one who told Rebekah Brooks should resign 14/07/11. She said “Thank God for that”
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Monday 31 March 2014
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The Defence of Charlie Brooks Continues
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Charlie Brooks is asked about events at the time of Rebekah Brooks Arrest
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BREAKING: On the day of her arrest Rebekah Brooks thought the police were making a ‘PR point’ before the DCMS select committee
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Tuesday 1 April 2014
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The Defence of Mark Hanna Begins
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Allegations of Burning Evidence
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BREAKING: Hanna says he ‘never’ burnt anything incriminating or not from News International at his home
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Tuesday 8 April 2014
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The Defence of Stuart Kuttner Begins
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Kuttner is asked for his view of other members of staff at NOTW
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BREAKING: Kuttner “I have no recollection of any dealings with Glenn Mulcaire… as far as I know I’ve only seen him in dock at court”
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Attempts to cut Nine Consultancy Budget
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BREAKING: Kuttner says cutting 50 per cent of Mulcaire’s budget “probably originated in my mind: in 2005
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Mr Justice Saunders Reviews the Position of the Trial
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Clive Goodman expected to return in May
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BREAKING: “Goodman will not be fit to resume his evidence until beginning of May, but we hope he will ready by then” says Justice Saunders
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Wednesday 9 April 2014
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The Defence of Stuart Kuttner Continues
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Milly Dowler’s Voicemail Messages
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BREAKING: Stuart Kuttner, former NOTW managing editor, says he told Surrey Police they had a recording of Milly Dowler‘s voicemail 13/04/11
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BREAKING: Kuttner says the NOTW changed 3rd edition article on Milly Dowler voicemails because police told them they were left by hoaxer
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Kuttner’s visit to Goodman
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BREAKING: Kuttner contemporaneous note says Mulcaire introduced Clive Goodman to a ‘serving spook’ with “leftovers of bugging”
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BREAKING: Kuttner note from 2006 says Goodman: “Told Andy this at the start” about his hacking project with Mulcaire
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Friday 11 April 2014
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The Prosecution Cross-Examination of Stuart Kuttner Continues
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Mulcaire Contracts
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BREAKING: Kuttner admits he didn’t carry out any further investigation into allegations another NOTW journalist was phone hacking in 2006
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Monday 14 April 2014
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The Defence of Andy Coulson Begins
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Timothy Langdale QC presents the case for Andy Coulson
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BREAKING: Timothy Langdale QC calls Andy Coulson to the witness box in the #hackingtrial
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Nine Consultancy Costs
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BREAKING: Coulson tells #hackingtrial: “I didn’t know the name of Glenn Mulcaire until he was arrested with Clive Goodman“
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BREAKING: “We paid double that to the astrologer” Andy Coulson says of Glenn Mulcaire’s £105,000 budget in 2005
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Tuesday 15 April 2014
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The Defence of Andy Coulson Contines
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Coulson’s knowledge of Phone Hacking
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BREAKING: Coulson denies ever being party to phone hacking at News of the World.
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Contacts with Surry Police
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BREAKING: Coulson says “I don’t remember having any discussion about Milly Dowler with Rebekah” during her absence in Dubai in April 2002
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Changes to Milly Dowler Stories
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BREAKING: Coulson says he cannot remember a conversation with Brooks about Milly Dowler story on her return from Dubai holiday
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News of the World Campaigns
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BREAKING: Coulson says Fariah Alam/Eriksonn story came from a ‘source’ known to him, and was paid for it.
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Wednesday 16 April 2014
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The Defence of Andy Coulson Continues
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Thurlbeck speaks to Coulson about Voicemail messgaes
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BREAKING: Coulson tells #hackingtrial that Neville Thurlbeck informed him he’d listened to Blunkett voicemails in 2004
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BREAKING: Coulson says Neville Thurlbeck played him intimate voicemail messages of David Blunkett in August 2004
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Coulson decides to speak to David Blunkett
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BREAKING: Coulson says he didn’t know phone hacking was an illegal act at the time of the David Blunkett voicemails in August 2004
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Coulson’s meeting with Blunkett
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BREAKING: Coulson says it was his “mistake” not mentioning voicemail messages to Blunkett: says legal advice on injunction was a factor too
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The Calum Best Story and the “Do his phone” emial
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BREAKING: Coulson says his “Do His Phone” email relates to the billing details of a NOTW journalist, and not hacking Calum Best‘s phone.
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Tuesday 22 April 2014
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The Defence of Andy Coulson Continues
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The Sienna Miller voicemail message
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BREAKING: Coulson denies Dan Evans ever played him a voice mail from Sienna Miller left on Daniel Craig‘s phone in September 2005
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The Blackadder Column
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BREAKING: Coulson says he “absolutely did not” know about Goodman or Mulcaire hacking voicemail messages.
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Royal Phone Hacking
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BREAKING: Coulson says he’s not sure he read Goodman email which directly mentions phone hacking in 2005, or knew the term ‘hacking’ then
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The Alexander Project
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BREAKING: Coulson says he was told by Goodman his Alexander Project was about a new ‘Royal Source’
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Royal Palace Phone Book
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BREAKING: Coulson says he thinks he never knew the name ‘Alexander’ for the project to pay Glenn Mulcaire for phone hacking in 2005
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Wednesday 23 April 2014
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The Defence of Andy Coulson Continues
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Clive Goodman’s Arrest
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BREAKING: Coulson “doesn’t believe” he ever heard the name of Glenn Mulcaire until the day of Goodman’s arrest.
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BREAKING: Coulson called Rupert Murdoch on the day of Goodman’s arrest 08/08/06
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BREAKING: “Until that point nobody had any idea voicemail interception was illegal” says Coulson of legal advice on Goodman’s arrest
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Goodman’s Prosecution Documents
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BREAKING: Coulson says that NI legal inquiry into Nine Consultancy in 2006 suggested no links to other NOTW news editors and phone hacking
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Coulson decides to resign
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BREAKING: Coulson resigned from NOTW two weeks before it was publicly announced on 26th Jan 07 “I was ultimately responsible”
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Thursday 24 April 2014
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The Cross-Examination of Andy Coulson Continues
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Coulson’s conversations with Goodman after arrest
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BREAKING: Goodman claims Coulson told him the police did not want to investigate phone hacking “any deeper” than Goodman Mulcaire in 2006
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BREAKING: Coulson denies his job offer to Goodman post arrest was on condition of him pleading guilty to hacking as rogue reporter.
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BREAKING: Coulson says he chose not to tell police about Thurlbeck hacking after Goodman arrest because “impact on me was a factor”
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Connections to Thurlbeck and Miskew
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BREAKING: NI lawyer discovered connections in Goodman prosecution papers to Miskiw, Thurlbeck and others in November 2006
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Friday 25 April 2014
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The Prosecution Cross-Examine Andy Coulson
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Coulson questioned about affair with Rebekah Brooks
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BREAKING: according to Coulson his affair with Rebekah Brooks lasted, on and off, nine years from 1998 to 2007
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Monday 28 April 2014
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The Cross-Examination of Andy Coulson Continues
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Budgets and Big Spends
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BREAKING: on ‘big spends’ at NOTW Mulcaire is in the top 5 earners along with political columnists agrees former editor Andy Coulson.
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Tuesday 29 April 2014
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Further Cross-Examination of Andy Coulson
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Coulson’s phone rings in the dock
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BREAKING: Justice Saunders suggesting ‘stamping’ on a ringing phone. Brooks jokes: “It’s an iPhone I can’t work it” #hackingtrial
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Coulson questioned on the Arrests of Goodman and Mulcaire
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BREAKING: Coulson agrees that if he’d admitted Blunkett voicemail hacks he would never have been David Cameron’s press spokesman
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Tuesday 6 May 2014
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Justice Saunders provides Directions of Law to the Jury
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Changes to the Indictment Sheet
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BREAKING: Count 7 – against Charlie Brooks – has changed. It’s no longer a ‘conspiracy’ charge.
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Wednesday 14 May 2014
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The Defence of Clive Goodman Resumes
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Clive Goodman returns to give evidence after illness
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BREAKING: Former NOTW Royal Editor Clive Goodman returns to witness box at the #hackingtrial after an 8 week absence.
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Counsel for Andy Coulson resumes his Cross Examination of Clive Goodman
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Goodman’s hacking of members of the Royal Family
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BREAKING: Goodman agrees he was hacking a number of people other than the ones he’s admitted so far.
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BREAKING: Goodman accepts he directly hacked of Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and Prince William: “If you want to know more, go ahead”
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BREAKING: Goodman agrees his last hack of Kate Middleton was the 07/08/06: the day before he was arrested.
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Goodman’s contact within the Security Services
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BREAKING: 16/03/06 “You are meeting a current spook” Mulcaire texts Goodman.
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Tuesday 15 May 2014
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The Defence of Clive Goodman Continues
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Goodman questioned on who knew about Phone Hacking
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BREAKING: Goodman told NI in 2007 that there “wasn’t a significant story in NOTW in the last two years that wasn’t the result” of hacking.
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Hacking of Royal Household Phones
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BREAKING: “He was shown the transcript” says Goodman of briefing Coulson on story based on hacking Royal Aide Lowther Pinkerton in Dec 2005
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Friday 16 May 2014
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The Prosecution Cross-Examine Clive Goodman
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Goodman’s meeting with Rebekah Brooks after arrest
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BREAKING: Goodman claims Rebekah Brooks offered him a job after prison “because who cares about a few media stories” #hackingtrial
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Monday 19 May 2014
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The Prosecutions Cross-Examination of Clive Goodman Continues
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The Hacking of Royal Phones
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BREAKING: Goodman says he never told his editor Andy Coulson directly about the hacking of Kate Middleton and Prince William
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BREAKING: Goodman claims the original police phone hacking investigation in 2006 didn’t mention Royal Princes to save them “embarassment”
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BREAKING: Goodman says he told his editor Andy Coulson that a Prince William “beagling” story was the result of phone hacking early in 2006
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Clive Goodman questioned further by his own Counsel
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Counsel for Clive Goodman closes his Defence
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BREAKING: Goodman says Andy Coulson knew Mulcaire was still working for him after ‘Alexander Project” terminated in February 2006
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The Prosecution continues its Closing Statement
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Further Closing Statement on Count 1, 2 and 3
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BREAKING: Edis says that Goodman said every major story at NOTW based on phone hacking IN 05 – but there are documents to back him up
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Tuesday 20 May 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Closing Statement
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Jonathan Laidlaw QC presents the Closing Statement for Rebekah Brooks
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BREAKING: “She is starting at a disadvantage… and cannot win” says Laidlaw for Brooks of media coverage of the #hackingtrial
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Closing Statement on Count 1
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says there was no “smoking gun” against Brooks, but a circumstantial case “she must have known”
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Hacking under Brooks Editorship
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BREAKING: Evidence proves “Mulcaire was not employed to hack phones…. until after Mrs Brooks had left the paper” says Brooks QC Laidlaw
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says “If there is one thing you can be confident of is that Brooks was not guilty of the hacking of Milly Dowler‘s phone”
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says Brooks line “waiting for six years” for Coulson is not the same thing as being in a relationship for 6 years”
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says the prosecution has been “desperate” in its “pursuit of Mrs Brooks”: lacking research and thinking things through
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Wednesday 21 May 2014
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Rebekah Brooks Closing Statement continues
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Closing Statement on Count 5
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says the MOD “protect the government of the day, and put a lid on bad news” in defence of Brooks misconduct charge
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BREAKING: Laidlaw’s defence: “Mrs Brooks is not beyond the law… but there has been a tension between investigative journalism and the law”
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Allegation of Corporate Cover Up
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BREAKING: Laidlaw concedes that Brooks did “nothing to investigate’ phone hacking as CEO – but that was her corporate responsibility
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Rebekah Brooks Defence concludes its Closing Statement
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says his client Brooks was at the “centre of a witch hunt” in July 2011.
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BREAKING: Laidlaw says the prosecutions approach to Brooks has been a “witch hunt”: Mr Edis will interpret everything she says as guilt
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BREAKING: Laidlaw talks of the “degree of scrutiny Mrs Brooks has been exposed to… unprecedented in history of British justice”
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Tuesday 27 May 2014
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Clive Goodman’s Closing Statement
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Goodman’s Case joined to Hacking Charges
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BREAKING: Spens tells the #hackingtrial jury how in June 2013 ‘hacking conspiracy’ was joined to Counts 2 and 3 against Goodman and Coulson
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BREAKING: By the time of Goodman’s return on 14/05/14, he had been told he wouldn’t be convicted for further hacking admissions (11/05/14)
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BREAKING: Spens says Goodman recalled a lot while other defendants have been struck down “by a collective amnesia over last few years”
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Goodman’s treatment at The News of the World
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BREAKING: Spens calls Coulson’s claim of a “duty of care” towards Goodman was “a sham, a charade” to find out what was going on with police
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BREAKING: Spens says that Goodman’s lawyer Brandman leaking material to NI lawyer “was not something we should accept”
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The Cover-Up
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BREAKING: Goodman’s final settlement with NI had a gagging clause that could only be broken in exceptional circumstances of criminal case
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Wednesday 28 May 2014
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Andy Coulson’s Closing Statement
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Unanswered Questions
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BREAKING: Langdale blames the prosecution for failing to “fingerprint members of the Royal Household” over Goodman’s royal directories
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Clive Goodman’s Evidence
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BREAKING: Langdale calls Goodman a “surrogate prosecutor” who can be deployed without any “comeback against him”
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BREAKING: Langdale says it’s “ironic” that prosecution and Goodman allege a coverup at NI when police and CPS had “coverup” in 2006
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Thursday 29 May 2014
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Andy Coulson’s Closing Statement Continues
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The David Blunkett Story
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BREAKING: NI External counsel say that RIPA Section 1 did encompass phone hacking in 2006 advice Langdale says
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BREAKING: Langdale says the NI lawyer in 2004 during Blunkett hacking did not know intercepting voicemails was a crime
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BREAKING: Langdale says Coulson’s admission that he knew of hacking Blunkett voicemails “has been hung like an albatross around his neck”
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BREAKING: “There was justification for a hard line story against Blunkett” says Langdale of hacking his voicemails: “a breach of security”
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Friday 30 May 2014
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Stuart Kuttner’s Closing Statement
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Kuttner’s Police Interview
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BREAKING: Of Dowler events leading to Kuttner “Ending up in the dock at the Old Bailey,” says Caplan “the CPS is in urgent need of reform”
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Monday 2 June 2014
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Cheryl Carter Closing Statement
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Cheryl Carter’s Character
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BREAKING: “Has there ever been a more unlikely character to stand in the dock of the Old Bailey than Cheryl Carter” asks he QC Trevor Burke
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Carter’s Arrest and Police Interviews
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BREAKING: Cheryl Carter’s mother-in-law’s garage still contains Brooks’ Man City memorial T-shirt “who ever wants it can ask” says Burke QC
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Tuesday 3 June 2014
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Charlie Brooks Closing Statement
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Neil Saunders QC presents the Closing Statement for Charlie Brooks
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BREAKING: Neil Saunders says Charlie Brooks‘ actions on the weekend of his wife’s arrest were “possibly driven by drink”
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Rebekah Brooks Arrest
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BREAKING: Saunders talks about police officer leaving bag behind during police search 17/07/11: one of “two forgetful bag” episodes that day
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Thursday 5 June 2014
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The Summing Up Continues
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Continued review of the Milly Dowler related Evidence
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BREAKING: Saunders says that Muclaire hacking Dowler and saving it could have led to deletion, but could not be false hope moment
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Wednesday 11 June 2014
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Mr Justice Saunders Concludes the Trial
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The Judge retires the Jury to consider their verdicts
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BREAKING: The jury bailiff is sworn in: “It’s been a privilege to work with you” Saunders tells the #hackingtrial jury
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The Criminal Media Nexus 