Monday 13 January 2014
Summary | ||
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Further cross examination of Jane Viner | ||
Witness – Jane Viner (Facilities Manager at News International) | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter continues cross examination of Jane Viner | ||
Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines Jane Viner | ||
Further Prosecution questions to Jane Viner | ||
Witness – DS John Massey (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Massey | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks will cross examine at a later time | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Massey | ||
Witness – DC Karyn Millar (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DC Millar | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DC Millar | ||
Witness – DC Hailey Barber (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DC Barber | ||
Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines DC Barber | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DC Barber |
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Further cross examination of Jane Viner | ||
Back at the #hackingtrial – with further cross examination of head of facilities at NI, Jane Viner | ||
Witness – Jane Viner (Facilities Manager at News International) | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter continues cross examination of Jane Viner | ||
Trevor Burke, counsel for Cheryl Carter, has questions for Jane Viner. He shows her an email from Carter to archivist Nick Mays on 16/05/11 | ||
On the 13/05/11 Mays had written Carter and Keegan about Brooks’ memorabilia and JRM portrait | ||
Carter writes back to Mays, and then asks Jane Viner for “big cupboards” for Brooks’ memorabilia. Viner has no recollection of replying | ||
Burke shows Viner a floor plan of Brooks’ office on the 10th floor at TMS. | ||
Jane Viner confirms that the big filing cabinets were behind the PAs in the ‘pod’ adjacent to Brooks’ office. | ||
The floor to ceiling plan of Thomas More Square shown to jury doesn’t include some ‘storewalls’ says Viner | ||
“I wouldn’t say it was a paperless office, but it was a minimalistic design,” says Viner of NI corporate floor | ||
Viner is shown the extensive filing list (some 132 pages IRRC) for the cabinets behind the PAs in the ante-room to Brooks’ office | ||
Viner agrees she was responsible for packing up “to specific guidelines” the News of the World offices after it was closed on 10th July 11 | ||
“News of the World was the focus of your initial instructions” asks Burke of that weekend: Brooks was not a person of interest till 15/07/11 | ||
On the 14th of July, the day before she resigned, Brooks was planning to be leaving Thomas More Square and “working elsewhere” | ||
Brooks emails Viner about relocating to “the Barn” during “leave of absence” and moving various items including “Rupert and Charlie Photos” | ||
As far as Viner was concerned, there was no restriction on Brooks moving any items while she was ‘homeworking’ and at another London office | ||
Viner emails Carter with “Plan of Action” email from Viner to Carter on 14/07/11 about Brooks’ moving out of NI HQ week after NOTW closure | ||
Next day Viner emails Cheryl around 17.40 15/07/11 plans to pack and store Brooks’ office over the following weekend, despite resignation | ||
The police arrive about an hour later around 18.40 on 15/07/11: Brooks was now a personal of interest, and Viner says office locked down | ||
On 17th text messages from Viner to Carter are shown to jury: “Am on the 13th floor…. call when you need some help” | ||
Carter texts she went with her husband to clear her beauty stuff, and says she’s now working with ‘Tom’ – Mockeridge appointed new CEO | ||
Viner emails Carter on the Monday 18th saying that Mockeridge was going to temporarily occupy Brooks’ office | ||
Carter asks about Brooks’ stuff: Viner says “I thought we weren’t allowed into the office yet…. but if you mean files let’s sort out ASAP | ||
Viner confirms that it was Brooks office which was searched and sealed on the Friday evening before: Carter was there during the search | ||
Police spent four hours or so searching Brooks’ office on 15/07/11 and returned on the Monday 18th to remove IT items. | ||
After 4th August 2011 Viner oversaw the removal of the remainder of Brooks’ office items to safe storage | ||
“If you mean files with you,” writes Viner to Carter: “let’s get them packed up as soon as possible.” She’s referring to Carter’s area | ||
Around that week of the 22nd July 2011, after Brooks’ arrest, Viner became aware Carter was leaving. | ||
“Mrs Carter had received a lot of gifts,” on her departure says her counsel Trevor Burke: Carter brought her car in to collect them. | ||
Carter was planning to continue with her Sun beauty column despite her resignation the week after Brooks’ arrested. | ||
Carter wrote to Derek Crowley, NI HR executive, about leaving her IT and phones behind. | ||
Viner says the filing cabinets behind Carter would have “been associated with her”. She has no recollection of packing them | ||
Viner says there is no booking or invoices in her records for moving 8 crates from TMS to Carter’s parents-in-law | ||
On the 24th of July, Viner oversaw several crates of material going into safe storage, but never saw a filing list. | ||
Burke alleges 8 or 10 crates of Brooks’ personal stuff was organised by Viner’s department: “No, I have no recollection of that…” | ||
“Police expressed no interest… in storage area behind Carters desk,” asks Burke. “I have no knowledge of that,” says Viner | ||
Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines Jane Viner | ||
William Clegg, counsel for Hanna, makes his first appearance: “This is my first question… so my questioning skills may be a little rusty” | ||
Clegg shows Viner a satellite map of Thomas More Square – picks out road, marina, parking area and plant. | ||
In 2011 there was one level of an underground car park in TMS. The move there was huge logistical exercise, agrees Viner, 3300 people moved. | ||
Viner confirms that Daniel Cloke previously responsible for security for News International left in 2010 – and she took over responsibility | ||
Hanna was group director for NI security, embracing all four titles, in 2011 | ||
Clegg, counsel for Hanna, confirms that ‘group director’ doesn’t mean Hanna was an legal director. ‘Neither was I,” confirms Viner | ||
Viner says she’d worked closely with Mark Hanna: agrees he was hard working, conscientous, good at his job, fair and entirely honest | ||
“Trust worthy, reliable” Viner confirms. “A family man,” Clegg asksof his client: “I don’t know all personal details of those I work with” | ||
Jury is shown details of Hanna’s parking space – number 77 – at Thomas More Square. | ||
“He had very wide ranging duties…. in this country and abroad,” Clegg asks. “I don’t recall any work abroad,” says Viner | ||
In the UK, Viner confirms Hanna was responsible for securing the building, and executive security. A concierge team for front of house | ||
Hanna was the line manager for the person in charge of the TMS security, entry and exits, patrols, logs of security maintenance | ||
Hanna’s team were responsible for lost property, issuing swipe cards, liaising over fire drills. Investigating petty theft | ||
Viner can’t remember the theft of lead from the roof of Thomas More Square – “It would have been from Wapping,” she says. | ||
Clegg refers to Fox News, part of News Corp not NI. “In Wapping and TMS we have News Corp Europe and Asia shared office space,” says Viner | ||
Clegg talks about the kidnap of Fox journalists in Egypt returned to London. Viner has no recollection | ||
Hanna was former army, serving in first Gulf War, and trained NI journalists for combat zones | ||
Viner became aware of phone hacking in 2011. She remembers an incident related to public post. | ||
Threatening and abusive letters to NI execs were intercepted in post room confirms Viner. | ||
It was Mark Hanna’s job to do a ‘risk assessment’ of these abusive letters to NI execs. In first instance in post room | ||
“Anything written in green ink would, I suggest, be intercepted by security,” says Cleggs. “Sounds like the sort of protocol,” says Viner | ||
Arrangements varied from title to title, says Viner, as to what happened to the mail once it had got through to the first ‘sift’ | ||
PAs might send mail back to security after a ‘second sift’ agrees Viners. NI offices swept for listening devices – normal and routine | ||
Viner says this is normal in most organisations she’s worked with. She agree newspapers v competitive and might try to steal scoops. | ||
Clegg talks of the ‘sensitive’ News Corp bid for BSkyB: Viner confirms News Corp had offices | ||
A company called White Rock conducted the anti-eavesdropping ‘sweeping’ | ||
Email from Brooks to Will Lewis 25/01/11 “Can I have my phone, and office swept… thanks. discreetly” “Seems routine,” says Viner | ||
Counsel for Hanna, Clegg, goes through follow up emails to Brooks’ request. Hanna says will get to it ASAP. Will Lewis replies “No problem” | ||
Hanna stays on the supervise the sweeping of all exec offices. Brooks Chelsea offices and car also being swept in January 2011. | ||
Hanna refers to issues over a dinner party, and a CCTV alarm system being installed in someone else’s property. Viner: “Entirely routine” | ||
Hanna, head of security at News International, would prepare a weekly report for Viner. | ||
27/01/11 an email refers to the Moscow Bombings – with Hanna confirming no injuries to staff. | ||
“All executives were provided with security as and when necessary,” agrees Viner. | ||
Email confirms TMS has been fully swept: in NOTW they were monitoring and sweeping an interview room in January 2011 | ||
NI was providing electronic and personal security to an unnamed person abroad: “Shows the wide ranging responsibilities Mark Hanna had” | ||
“The idea his whole life was dedicated to providing security for Rebekah Brooks would be very far from the truth,” Clegg on his client Hanna | ||
“Mrs Brooks would refer to other employees by their first names… rather than, as lawyers do in a rather stuff way, refer to Mr or Mrs.” | ||
“It was a first name business,” says Clegg of News International: “First name terms no indication of friends… she was very much the boss” | ||
Clegg asks about movement of Carter’s 8 boxes into Wapping safe store: Viner says wasn’t the responsibility of security or Mark Hanna | ||
Viner emails head of security Michael Varley at BSkyB mentioning “sweeping of the offices… which we’re doing daily at the moment”. | ||
“Is sweeping every day routine because of BSkyB situation at that time?” asks Saunders. Viner says yes. | ||
Clegg: “When the phone hacking allegations became significant news item there became a heightened security at TMS… and individual execs” | ||
Hanna was asked to organise personal protection of Brooks during this period | ||
Viner remembers “Threatening mail…. addressed to some of the executives…” from this period | ||
International Corporate Protection (ICP) ran the mail screening: MD Will Geddes will be a prosecution witness later this week. | ||
Contract for ICP would have gone through Viner to Susan Panuccio fro signing off – it was beyond Viner’s budget | ||
ICP organised executive security for Brooks (‘Blackhawk’) , Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg (coded Kestrel and Sparrowhawk) | ||
Will Geddes, forthcoming witness, is the ICP managing director | ||
Clegg focuses on the ‘Blackhawk’ operation for the Brooks’: they had a London property in Chelsea, and the ‘Barn’ in Oxford. | ||
Hanna made personal security reviews of both Brooks’ premises: security guards provided by ICP – Viner recalls signing contract/invoice | ||
Viner agrees this security detail added a “great deal of workload” to Hanna, who was working long hours by July, with very few days off | ||
Clegg suggest Hanna took a lot of work home – “including threatening letters he had to assess for potential risk.” | ||
“Quite a large volume of such material (threatening letters) were recovered by police from Mr Hanna’s home address,” says counsel Clegg | ||
On the weekend on 16/17th July 2011 the Brooks’ were not staying at their home in Oxfordshire. | ||
Clegg suggests that Brooks new weekend location this added another set of premises Hanna had to guard over that period. | ||
Clegg brings up Count 7 of the indictment on the court screen | ||
Jury are reminded that the allegations against Mark Hanna are specifically focused on that weekend in July | ||
Four other people are named on this indictment – some from various other private companies. | ||
Viner cannot recall signing an invoice. The company subcontracted by ICP, suggests Clegg, counsel for Hanna. | ||
“It was an extremely busy weekend for Mark Hanna,” agrees Viner. James and Rupert Murdoch also in TMS on the Sunday. | ||
Viner remembers Brooks was attending Parliamentary DCMS on July 19th: she suspects she was preparing that weekend for committee | ||
“Two or three ‘not in the office locations’ were running in this period,” says Viner | ||
“The perceived security risk had never been higher,” agrees Viner | ||
This new location for Brooks was called ‘Enstone’: Hanna was there the whole weekend Viner says, from his reports | ||
Call data shows Hanna reported regularly to Viner that weekend – she remembers a call on the Sunday. | ||
Hanna was also liaising with the Serjeant at Arms in Parliament for arrangements for Brooks’ parliamentary attendance. | ||
CLEGG establishes Hanna was working all hours, confirms Viner: “I was concerned about Mark’s pastoral care… he had no rest time” | ||
Viner reported her concerns to Panuccio – her boss | ||
Clegg, counsel for NI Head of Security Mark Hanna, goes through questions from Viners PA about movements prior to Brooks’ DCMS appearance | ||
Hanna’s email says Brooks was intending to return to London on Monday 18th July 2011 | ||
Viner is asked whether she knew Brooks had an appointment with police at London police station: “I can’t recall,” says Viner | ||
Viner is asked whether she had told Mark Hanna about this police appointment: “I have no recollection of being told,” says Viner | ||
Clegg: “If you’d known she was coming to London… you wouldn’t have prepared security in Enstone?” Viner agrees. | ||
Viner is shown a call schedule by William Clegg QC, counsel for Hanna. A break while it is introduced | ||
Rupert Murdoch has his own close personal protection officer but not James as far as Viner was aware. (Typo from previous tweet) | ||
“The rust isn’t showing too much at the moment,” says Saunders of Clegg’s re-examination of Jane Viner, head of facilities at NI | ||
10th Feb 2011Hanna report cited: someone left a dictaphone on a train, NOTW interviews and police liason, Fox personnel injured in Cairo | ||
Hanna weekly report – “sleeping” not “sweeping” on level four. Someone dozing on the job, apparently | ||
3rd March Report: more NOTW interviews and police liaison for Hanna. May Day demos. | ||
24/03/11 Hanna Report: working with CPS. 01/04 ongoing NOTW interviews – breadth of Hanna’s work | ||
Texts to Viner cited – heightened threat after death of Osama Bin Laden: ongoing NOTW interviews | ||
Lots of activity that spring points out Clegg, counsel for Hanna. James Murdoch’s office swept because of BSkyB – vetting Brooks new driver | ||
The whole spring 2011 in Mark Hanna’s weekly reports is filled with regular briefings with CPS, and liaison with police over NOTW interviews | ||
In July 2011, Hanna is concerned with demonstrations outside Wapping: constantly reviewing security over ‘allegations’ against NI | ||
Hanna is intercepting executive mail in during 2011 the phone hacking scandal, and emails. There is anti-surveillance ‘masking’ of building | ||
Viner confirms that these weekly emails show Hanna’s “very wide remit” and the escalation of work in July 2011 | ||
Clegg, counsel for Hanna, goes through the call data from his client’s phone. | ||
The prosecution have amassed 3,450 entries for the billing data from Hanna’s phone in relation to Count 7 | ||
Call data from three other prosecution witnesses – Viner, Geddes and another person – only shows their contact with Hanna | ||
Clegg explains that the schedule shows all Hanna’s contact with Viner, Geddes and Jagger: so not a complete account of this calls | ||
Defence has submitted other call data which has not been agreed with prosecution, because they haven’t check numbers. | ||
One name cited by defence is Bridget Lee: Viner says name familiar but can’t identify her. | ||
Other calls to other people whose records have been inspected by police are not included because it would make the schedule too long | ||
Clegg, counsel for Hanna, goes through the telephone evidence of contact with his line manager Jane Viner | ||
Jane Viner doesn’t remember talking to Hanna on the morning of Sunday 17th July, the day Brooks was arrested | ||
Viner doesn’t remember being told the Brooks’ were coming to London that morning of the 17/07/11 | ||
Clegg, counsel for Hanna, explores call data for that morning showing a 6 minute call, interrupted, around 10.30 am. | ||
Clegg suggests that Hanna called Viner about having to drive Charlie Brooks‘ Range Rover back to London, new insurance had to put in place | ||
Viner can remember organising the insurance, but can’t remember Charlie Brooks‘ Range Rover being cited. Insurance docs name ‘any car’ | ||
Clegg, counsel for Hanna, shows that emails requesting insurance on another car for head of security a few minutes after call from him | ||
Another request from Viner asks for Hanna’s car to be insured for someone else | ||
Viner confirms that these requests for insurance would have come beforehand if Hanna knew in advance | ||
Clegg goes throughs some more call data around lunchtime on the day Brooks is arrested: Viner and Hanna keep on missing each other | ||
Call data shows Viner and Hanna talking for about six minutes that Sunday lunchtime 17/07/11 | ||
Hanna and Viner speak at 1.15 pm: Viner can’t remember directly why she was calling Hanna. | ||
Viner says she was at work by this time in Thomas More Square. | ||
“Do you think mention was made of Rebekah Brooks being at a police station?” Viner cannot remember, nor recollect prior knowledge of visit | ||
The cell site information for Mark Hanna shows a location for ‘Broadway’ the road that splits Wapping from Thomas More Square | ||
Hanna was at Wapping later that Sunday, but Viner cannot recall meeting him face to face | ||
Cell site information later that afternoon the Sunday Brooks is arrested shows Mark Hanna back at home in Buckinghamshire | ||
Viner remembers speaking to Hanna later that day – she was concerned about his welfare and wanted him to take the Monday off. | ||
Hanna said it was impossible to take the Monday off because of a Select Committee appearance on Tuesday 19th May 2011 | ||
Viner cannot remember if Hanna said Brooks was still at the police around 5pm on the Sunday, or that they’d searched the Barn in Oxfordshire | ||
Break for lunch | ||
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Back after lunch at the epic #hackingtrial – still going through the prosecution case. Probably will be till end of the month | ||
William Clegg QC, counsel for Mark Hanna, head of NI security, continues with cross examination of Jane Viner, head of facitilies | ||
The evening Brooks is arrested texts are exchanged between Hanna and is line manager, Viner | ||
Viner recalls asking Hanna to tell her when he was home, and whether he’d be in Monday. She thinks texts that afternoon reflected that | ||
Viner explains neither her or Hanna’s job is a “Monday to Friday, nine to five job” so weekend contact between not at all abnormal | ||
Four more texts that afternoon between Hanna and Viner: she cannot remember the subject matter | ||
Just before midnight from Hanna, who has remained in Buckinghamshire that entire evening Sunday July 17th when Brooks arrested | ||
Hanna sent a text to Viner which is his counsel, Clegg, alleges was notification of Brooks’ release from police questioning | ||
Around 9.30 am Monday 18/07/11 call data shows Hanna calling Viner from one of the Wapping cell sites | ||
Viner wasn’t in the office Monday morning, so Hanna could be reporting to her by phone, she says | ||
4.35 that afternoon, Viner says it’s “reasonable” Hanna was giving her an update on his movements prior to DCMS hearing | ||
Further Prosecution questions to Jane Viner | ||
Bryant Heron for the prosecution has some re-examination questions on the plan for Brooks’ office. | ||
Bryant Heron asks Viner about the boxes moved to safe storage and asked about the codes from a police exhibit | ||
Boxes were marked, by police and MSC rules, according to area – with tallying codes. | ||
10-39 is the code for the PAs office area: Viner was asked about the booking of a van or courier for the removal of 8-10 Carter boxes | ||
Viner is asked about Brooks’ Enstone location during weekend of her arrest. She thought it was “an executive offsite meeting” about Brooks | ||
Witness – DS John Massey (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Massey | ||
Bryant Heron for the crown recalls DS Massey as a prosecution witness in the #hackingtrial | ||
DS Massey previously gave evidence on the interview of Cheryl Carter on the 6th Jan 12. On 25/01/12 Massey went to Kingsley Napley lawyers | ||
Kingsley Napley are solicitors representing Brooks. They informed police and DS Massey and DC Fletcher attended those offices | ||
DS Massey was shown a box crate with ten photo albums, a black box with a sticker on the side 10-39 (the same number Viner mentioned) | ||
This box was wedding photos. The thirds box contained letters, cards, and support for Brooks resignation. Other boxes letters and speeches | ||
Other boxes contained credit card statements, share certificates, christmas card. Another Mr Murdoch 2000-2008 | ||
Also present at the solicitors two hessian bags of photos. | ||
“There was no uniformity to the boxes…” DS Massey confirms they looked nothing like record archive boxes. | ||
DS Massey confirms there were some hard copy diaries 1995-2010, 4 A5 sized notebooks, small reporter’s pad, and two filofaxes recovered | ||
Those items would have taken up between one and one a half storage boxes. | ||
Kingsley Napier retained the two notebooks to check whether, in journalistic terms, they contained professionally privileged material | ||
DC Massey has not seen those notebooks. But he managed to date an Oxford reporters pad recovered from Brooks’ solicitors Kingsley Napley | ||
Jury shown an A5 Oxford reporter’s pad – like a small exercise pad. Photos shown to jury. | ||
References in Brooks’ – to Olympic tickets and congestion charge – dated it to September 2009 | ||
A black and red A5 notebook, shown to jury, is dated to 2005 by an email contained within it | ||
The email inside the second Brooks is from a Sun Employee | ||
Another black A5 Brooks notebook is shown to jury: though no dates within it, there is a reference to Rupert’s schedule and PCC | ||
Another blue A5 notebook has 2007 on the cover “a giveaway for the date” says Bryant Heron. | ||
One further notebook – described as a phone book -was recovered by Kingsley Napley: filofax contained a 1994, and 2003-4 diary | ||
DS Massey’s investigations were from January 2012: other sources procured evidence from NI. Later in 2012 Carter attended Weeting | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks will cross examine at a later time | ||
Laidlaw, counsel for Brooks, explains how he is trying to make sense “of not an entirely easier part of the case” about filing lists | ||
Laidlaw for Brooks says he will “hold fire” until the schedule of recoveries from Kingsley Napley is finalised | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Massey | ||
Burke, counsel for Carter, has some questions for DS Massey. | ||
Burke mentions the search of Brooks’ on 15th July 2011. The returned on 18th to remove IT items. | ||
Massey says he is aware of the fact that the filing areas around Brooks’ PAs were never searched in July 2011 | ||
BREAKING: police were told by NI’s Management and Standards Committee Carter removed 7 boxes from archives – base of charge 6 #hackingtrial | ||
It’s from Nick Mays evidence that the police know Gary Keegan was present with Cheryl Carter. Keegan mentions Nick Carter’s presence | ||
After Nick Carter’s evidence he dropped off 7 boxes at house, police get a warrant: arrive at Carter’s house when they return from Australia | ||
DS Massey adds some “clarity”: he says the timing of the search was due to police process: it wasn’t timed around Carter’s Australian trip | ||
Four officer attended to search the house. They take nothing. But Carter gives a brief account to police that day. | ||
At this point Carter is interviewed as a potential witness about the 7 missing archive boxes. | ||
Carter’s version of events was that archives contacted her to remove. Most were Carter’s. She removed and destroyed them. | ||
Burke explores Brooks’s Boot Camp training session: Carter was correct about it being scheduled in, but wrong about it taking place | ||
Carter is arrested at 6.50 am on a January morning: “Why at ten to seven?” asks Burke. Massey explains that she was leaving for Australia | ||
DS Massey said this arrest at 6.50 am of Carter allowed them to have the whole day free for interview. | ||
DS Massey confirms Carter was a woman of good character with no previous conviction. In interviews, she repeated witness statement from July | ||
Carter maintained archivist Nick Mays had contacted her about downsizing earlier in 2011. | ||
Burke confirms the email from Mays in May 11 about memorabilia only became available from NI during the course of the trial | ||
The emails to archivist Mays came from emails retrieved from Carter’s Blackberry – so weren’t available to police until after arrest | ||
These emails were disclosed to the defence earlier in the process: no email traffic between Brooks and Carter on subject of 7 archive boxes | ||
“Importantly, there is no email from Nick Mays to Cheryl Carter prior to Sept 09 sending a copy… of a blank transfer list,” says Burke | ||
“Have you found a single pad that contains Cheryl Carter’s beauty tips?” asks Burke of DS Massey. “Not that I’m aware.” | ||
Burke alleges that his client Carter was present when Brooks’ safe was unlocked in July 2011 | ||
Burke for Carter asks about a email chain from NI lawyer confirming PAs Carter and Keegan could speak according to bail conditions | ||
Witness – DC Karyn Millar (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DC Millar | ||
Bryant Heron for the crown calls DC Karyn Millar | ||
DC Millar is shown a letter from Carter’s solicitors Brandman about a visit on 25/10 to Weeting offices to identify items | ||
The exhibits shown to Carter and her lawyer were the items supplied to police by Kingsley Napley. | ||
Six days later the police receive a letter from Carter’s solicitor identifying 4 items from 7 archive boxes. First notice to police | ||
Carter identified a 1995 blank times diary, a blue hardbook notebook, | ||
Hiatus as various exhibits are unbagged and shown to jury. | ||
Actually the hiatus is apparently for the defendants to look at the evidence box | ||
DC Millar identifies the third item – a desk diary. | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DC Millar | ||
Burke for Carter now cross examines DC Millar. | ||
DC Millar says she had no idea why Carter and Bradman wanted to view Weeting articles. | ||
All of the exhibits were brought out all the Kingsley Napley exhibits at Putney. No commentsat that meeting. Only a letter 7 days later | ||
Witness – DC Hailey Barber (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DC Barber | ||
Bryant Heron is now onto Count 7 which includes Hanna and Charlie Brooks in allegations of cover up | ||
DC Hailey Barber is called as a witness to go through the call data for both Brooks’, Hanna, Carter, and various security operatives | ||
The call schedule has called IDs, duration of calls, and the cell site postcodes of the receiving masts | ||
There is cell site data for both outgoing and receiving calls. The first entry is for 17th July 2011 between Hanna and other security | ||
The first text is at 4.41 am in the morning. To postcode in OX7 4NS – Enstone cell site. It comes from Hanna’s mobile. | ||
When Hanna receives a text it’s from the same Enstone cell site in Oxfordshire – these are just demonstrations of timeline to jury | ||
On the same Sunday Brooks arrested, various calls early in the morning to ‘Blackhawk 1’ also in Enstone area | ||
Counsel for Mark Hanna cross examines DC Barber | ||
Clegg for Hanna does not agree with the expert cell site analysis. He is happy to admit Hanna was at Enstone on that Sunday morning | ||
Clegg explains that “Enstone Farm was quite a large area” | ||
“It’s already brain numbing,” Clegg concedes of some of the evidence: “And no one needs any more numbing…” No agreement on admissions | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DC Barber | ||
Bryant Heron then explains the location of the Blackhawk 1 phone in the Enstone area. | ||
Enstone contained both a farm and a business park, according to Operation Sacha detective. | ||
A security firm contracted by NI named the protection operation for Brooks “Blackhawk’ – ‘Blackhawk 1’ is their security handset | ||
Another mobile phone is located close to Enstone Manor Farm. | ||
Rebekah and Charles Brooks’ mobile phones also routed through the Enstone cell site. | ||
About 9 am that morning, the Brooks’ with their driver and a follow car go to the offices of Kingsley Napley in London | ||
About the same time Hanna and another security operative move from Enstone through various postcodes in direction of Brooks’ Jubilee Barn | ||
Then mobile phones of Hanna and other security operatives move to the London and Thomas More Square around lunchtime Sunday 17/07/11 | ||
Call phone data shows Brooks moving towards Lewisham postcode – the police station where she was arrested | ||
Charles Brooks and Angus MacBride, his solicitor, arrive at Chelsea Quay: CCTV shown to court. They arrive through swing door reception | ||
R Brooks arrested at 12.02 pm. C Brooks exits lift of underground car park with Jiffy bag and laptop – shown to jury on CCTV recording | ||
Less than a minute later CCTV shows a jacketless Charlie Brooks returns to the lift of car park WITHOUT Jiffy bag and lap top | ||
Counsel for Charlie Brooks points out the cameras are movement triggered. He says machine timing sometimes doesn’t marry up | ||
Court adjourns till 10 am tomorrow. |
Note: All the defendants deny all the charges. The trial continues.
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