Wednesday 22 January 2014
Summary | ||
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Fire – False Alarm | ||
Witness – DC Alan Pritchard (Operation Weeting and Sasha Detective) | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks continues cross examination of DC Pritchard | ||
Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines DC Pritchard | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DC Pritchard | ||
Witness – DI Steve McCabe (Operation Weeting and Sacha Investigation Officer) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DI McCabe | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines DI Steve McCabe | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DI McCabe | ||
Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines DI McCabe | ||
Witness – DS Philip Audrey (Investigated Archived Material at News International) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Philip Audrey | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Philip Audrey | ||
Witness – Nicholas Mays (Archivist at New International) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions Nicholas Mays | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines Nicholas Mays | ||
Witness – Deborah Keegan (Former Personal Assistant to Rebekah Brooks) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions Deborah Keegan | ||
Mr Justice Saunders questions Deborah Keegan | ||
Witness – DS John Massey (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Massey | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines DS Massey | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Massey | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DS Massey | ||
Witness Statement – Tony Cox (Co-Director of Corunna Solutions – Counter Surveillance) | ||
Prosecution Counsel reads Tony Cox statement | ||
Prosecution Counsel reads Tony Cox second statement |
The Prosecution Case Continues | ||
Fire – False Alarm | ||
Back at #hackingtrial – a ‘non fire’ alert and some case management before the jury are in. | ||
“You’ll be happy to know we worked through the non-fire,” Justice Saunders tells the jury. DC Alan Pritchard recalled to witness box. | ||
Witness – DC Alan Pritchard (Operation Weeting and Sasha Detective) | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks continues cross examination of DC Pritchard | ||
Laidlaw for Rebekah Brooks returns to the issue of the search warrant in March 2013 which had been submitted by DC Pritchard. | ||
Laidlaw emphasises DC Pritchard was “under oath” and he cannot recall any verbal questions from the magistrate, or adding further info | ||
DC Pritchard has returned this morning with the schedule attached to the search warrant with the four Brooks premises. | ||
DC Pritchard confirms the search warrant included vehicles owned by Rebekah and Charlie Brooks. Laidlaw goes through written application | ||
First para of search application names Brooks properties. Second para explains Operation Weeting: | ||
13/03/12 Warrant says: “Both prior and since her arrest… documents and computer devices relevant to the inquiry… have gone missing” | ||
Laidlaw asks what storage devices and documentation went missing since Brooks’ arrest: DC Pritchard says computers and docs went missing | ||
“When she left News International I’m not aware of any computers she was using have come into our possession,” says DC Pritchard. | ||
Laidlaw asks about the computers bagged up at News International on 15/07/11. Pritchard says analysis of those showed little use. | ||
“We haven’t recovered a computer that has the relevant activity when she left the company,” says DC Pritchard. | ||
Laidlaw goes through the two iPads, HP base Unit, Apple Mac recovered from NI HQ two days before Brooks’ arrest in July 2011 | ||
DC Pritchard also explains how the documents and emails were imaged by Stroz Friedberg and then stored on the Nomad system of the MSC | ||
“The office was secured, that’s as much as I know,” says DC Pritchard of the computer equipment on 10th Floor of News International HQ | ||
“The user activity on those machines indicated she wasn’t using them at the time,” repeats DC Pritchard of Brooks’ NI computers recovered | ||
Laidlaw returns to March 12 search warrant: it sets out the Count 6 and 7 allegations about missing archives and alleged cover up | ||
More on the search warrant: also deals with journalistic and legally privileged material that could be recovered: go to independent counsel | ||
The warrant also explains how, in the light of previous charges, the material has to be seized as quickly as possible. | ||
“Were you satisfied at the time this was giving the magistrate the full picture,” asks Laidlaw. “Yes I was,” says DC Pritchard of warrant. | ||
Laidlaw focuses on C1 category “no practicable to contact anyone” and then “full picture.” | ||
“I’m going to make the suggestion you did not provide the magistrate with the full picture,” asserts Laidlaw for Brooks to DC Pritchard. | ||
Laidlaw says DC Pritchard didn’t include the NI search in 14/07/11: Pritchard says search was relevant to perversion of course of justice | ||
“How was the magistrate come to an informed decision if you didn’t tell her you had recovered items from Brooks’ office?” asks Laidlaw | ||
Pritchard repeats that this new search was over perversion of the course of justice charges, not original phone hacking allegations | ||
Laidlaw asks about the ‘element of surprise’: did Pritchard not tell magistrate Brooks said she would co-operate with any searches. | ||
“The words were not effective in the deeds we saw,” says DC Pritchard of Brooks’ promises to co-operate with the police over searches. | ||
Laidlaw points out that Brooks’ solicitors Burton Copeland wrote to the police saying she would co-operate with any searches | ||
“Was this a conscious decision or something you overlooked?” asks Laidlaw of promise of co-operation. Pritchard “I didn’t think it relevant” | ||
Laidlaw concentrates on the files in PAs office: “we only had consent to search Brooks’ office,” explains Pritchard. | ||
“The long and short of it was it missed,” says Laidlaw of company records in HQ. Pritchard says he wasn’t party to decision of search. | ||
“This was to do with material missing from archive,” says DC Pritchard of that search in March 2013. | ||
DC Pritchard admits he didn’t include the fact they searched Jubilee Barn before in his search application: “It could have been included” | ||
Of Thames Quay; “in hindsight that could have been included,” says Pritchard of non inclusion of previous search in warrant. | ||
Laidlaw asks about correspondence between Kingsley Napley and the police before drawing up warrant: “you’ll have to show me document” | ||
DC Pritchard shown email (seen before by jury) from McBride offering to show police material at Kingsley Napley: he hasn’t seen it before | ||
Laidlaw says DC Pritchard might have inquired about correspondence between Kingsley Napley and other officers after Cheryl Carter’s arrest | ||
“You didn’t ask your senior officers or colleagues…. has there been any communication with potential defendant?” asks Laidlaw. | ||
Laidlaw for Brooks goes through an email from 11/01/12 from police in response to Brooks’ solicitors at Kingsley Napley. | ||
Email from Weeting Detective Fletcher explains how Cheryl Carter removed boxes from NI archives “material relevant to this inquiry.” | ||
“How many officer involved in Operation Weeting at this time,” asks Laidlaw: “About 50 or 60” says DC Pritchard. | ||
DC Pritchard says he was mainly based at NI at this time: when at same office “I can’t recall where DC Fletcher sat” probably far end. | ||
“It would be a more senior officer who would ask you to prepare this application,” repeats Laidlaw. DC Pritchard confirms. | ||
Several emails from January 2012 between McBride, Brooks’ solicitor, and DC Fletcher at Weeting read out. DC Pritchard hasn’t seen these. | ||
Laidlaw says that police officers spent four days searching Brooks’ material at Kingsley Napley: DS Massey involved in that and warrant | ||
Laidlaw asks Pritchard “did you forget you were told or can’t remember?” Saunders intervenes “those particular questions hard to answer” | ||
DC Pritchard explains how come Jan 12 he’d gone to work at News International at the Nomad system storing the data. | ||
DC Pritchard sticks by his assertion it was not practical to inform the Brooks in advance. He’d still stand by the warrant. | ||
“It’s what we’ve never found in relation to Brooks’ computers,” says DC Pritchard of the warrant. | ||
Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines DC Pritchard | ||
Neil Saunders asks DC Pritchard about another Weeting officer: senior officer in searching Jubilee Barn. | ||
Saunders for Charlie Brooks asks whether DS Elwell told DC Pritchard Jubilee Barn was a holiday cottage. “No, I wasn’t there.” | ||
Neil Saunders asks DC Pritchard knew Charlie Brooks was the countryside editor for Telegraph: “No I didn’t”. | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DC Pritchard | ||
Bryant Heron for the Crown re-examines DC Pritchard on the warrant: the senior officer was Mr McCabe and he’d liaised with DS Massey | ||
DC Pritchard says he showed the Brooks’ warrant application to DS Massey who wanted to recover material taken from the archive. | ||
“Not at all,” says DC Pritchard about whether his senior officer felt he had recovered the missing Brooks’ material. | ||
DC Pritchard on why no pre-notification: “We had evidence material had been removed from the archive… and respective addresses” | ||
Bryant Heron for the crown asks about Brooks’ emails offering to co-operate. Pritchard repeats she made “no comment” in police interviews | ||
Bryant Heron for the crown asks DC Pritchard more about the 15/07/11 search of Rebekah Brooks‘ NI offices. | ||
DC Pritchard is asked about the equipment. Laidlaw intervenes wanting to make a legal argument for 30 seconds or 5 mins. Jury leave. | ||
A break for at least 20 minutes. | ||
Back in after the break at the #hackingtrial. Saunders apologise to jury for interruption. | ||
Witness – DI Steve McCabe (Operation Weeting and Sacha Investigation Officer) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DI McCabe | ||
DI Steve McCabe is called by Edis for the prosecution. McCabe has been in and out the court so he understands about keeping voice up | ||
Inspector McCabe explains he was the investigating officer, deputy to senior, during closure of News of the Word and aftermath | ||
McCabe was investigating officer responsible Operation Weeting and then Operation Sacha : phone hacking and alleged coverup | ||
McCabe can answer questions about major decisions. He wasn’t personally involved in dealing with Linklater’s in 2011 | ||
DI McCabe was in control of the DS Massey’s investigations at Kingsley Napley in 2012, and then the search warrant in March 2012 | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines DI Steve McCabe | ||
Laidlaw for Brooks cross examines DI McCabe about the search warrant and “a number of different topics” | ||
Laidlaw asks about 15/07/11 and Brooks’ resignation and the searching of her office at NI HQ. McCabe says DI Ratcliffe was there that day | ||
McCabe says he can speak to what happened to documentary material at Brooks’ office and search of Jubilee Barn in March 2012 | ||
DI McCabe recollects the police were forewarned of Brooks’ resignation – but cannot say how much notice they were given | ||
McCabe is asked whether he remembers conversations with Senior NI execs and the police on the Friday she resigned. | ||
DI McCabe cannot talk to the details of those discussions, but the general principles he can explain | ||
Laidlaw says early on 15/07/11 Will Lewis agreed Brooks should be escorted out of the building. McCabe says: “That sounds a bit harsh” | ||
DI McCabe agrees that leaving behind computer equipment “would be normal. On Brooks’s Blackberry being disabled; “Rather not comment.” | ||
McCabe says of NI office: “my understanding was that… we would seek to have a search…. but we had no power and consent was sought” | ||
DI McCabe can only speak in general terms because he wasn’t there during the NI search about bagging and marking in situ computer equipment | ||
“If material was found, we would secure it,” says McCabe. But he can’t speak to whether devices were left in situ or moved to secure store | ||
McCabe explains the ‘protocol’ for ‘controlled access to digital data’ agreed between police and News International. | ||
“My understanding of office environment, very little in terms of documentation, and mainly electronic devices: McCabe on Brooks’ office | ||
“It would be fair to say they didn’t,” says DI McCabe of the officer lack of awareness the PAs stored most of Brooks’ paper records. | ||
McCabe explains how the material around Mrs Carter’s workspace was moved, and it “was a challenge” to reconstitute it. | ||
McCabe says that until Brooks’ filing lists coming to police attention at end of 2012, the police weren’t aware paperwork had been separated | ||
“Once we came into possession of filing lists we became aware not all the material of NI, but was with her lawyers,” DI on Brooks paperwork | ||
“Having interviewed Mrs Carter, clear material… had been returned to Mrs Brooks,” DI McCabe said police had written to lawyer McBride | ||
After exchange of emails, Kingsley Napley let police search Brooks’ material – not solely from Carter’s workspace, couldn’t say from where | ||
Laidlaw now moves on two months to the events of 13/03/12 and the new search warrant for Brooks’ property. DI McCabe is handed warrant. | ||
Laidlaw asks DI McCabe about his personal responsibility for the search warrant. He would generally review the document. | ||
DI McCabe says he would have reviewed the warrant application, but DI Beswick, independent officer, would have authorised it. | ||
Laidlaw says he’s “made certain statements of a critical nature” of this warrant application with DC Pritchard. He reiterates them. | ||
Laidlaw asks whether the application for the warrant provides the “full picture” and the “not practicable to communicate” box. | ||
McCabe says he’d expect previous searches to be included in warrant. He wouldn’t expect NI search to be mentioned. | ||
McCabe says previous searches had been frustrated – so effectively had been mentioned. | ||
“I believe the application was balanced,” says DI McCabe: but “more information would not have harmed the application.” | ||
DI McCabe defends omitting: “the fact we entered into correspondence with solicitors about what the defendant wants to allow us access to” | ||
Laidlaw asks about the timing of the raid on Jubilee Barn – around 5 a.m. – he says police couldn’t find it at first. | ||
DI McCabe says he knew about the young baby at Jubilee Barn – but didn’t know the Brooks’ child was born premature. | ||
“I wouldn’t use the term banging on doors,” DI McCabe”. But we were conducting multiple arrests…. to make sure people don’t confer.” | ||
“One of the arrestees left for work extremely early”, says DI McCabe: “I believe it was Mr Hanna.” | ||
“I’m a father myself, and have had a very young child… so I would have instructed my officers,” DI McCabe. | ||
“Would you expect the child’s Moses basket to be searched?” asks Laidlaw. “Yes,” says DI McCabe ‘if officers had reasons.” | ||
“Mr Brooks was a horse trainer, and they’re very early risers too,” says DI McCabe of early search. “I’m not in the business of humiliating” | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DI McCabe | ||
Trevor Burke, counsel for Cheryl Carter, has some questions of DI McCabe about the search of Brooks’ office in July 2011 | ||
Carter, Burke says, helped police get access to Brooks safe. But no request were made of PA filing cabinets. “I wasn’t present,” says McCabe | ||
McCabe is asked whether the information from Cheryl Carter about packing up stuff triggered the inquiry to Kingsley Napley. “Yes it was” | ||
“That’s not correct, sir,” says McCabe to Burke: “the filing lists weren’t available till late 2012” | ||
Counsel for Charlie Brooks cross examines DI McCabe | ||
Saunders for Charlie Brooks has a question about Cheltenham starting the day his house was searched. McCabe not aware he had no runners. | ||
“Absolutely not… it was news to me he was,” says DI McCabe of news C Brooks was journalist: “I was aware he was a racehorse trainer” | ||
Edis for the crown has some re-examination of McCabe, and the fact he didn’t mention New Int in the search warrant. | ||
McCabe confirms the search of Kingsley Napley was to look for missing archives. That search was not recovered in DI McCabe’s opinion. | ||
DI McCabe says “as far as I was concerned” the search before the warrant was served had not turned up the missing material | ||
Saunders has a query about the search warrant: they enacted another power of search because they were arrested | ||
McCabe explains that the search warrant was prepared just in case no one was there to be arrested at Jubilee Barn. | ||
Break till 2.15 pm | ||
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Witness – DS Philip Audrey (Investigated Archived Material at News International) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Philip Audrey | ||
Andrew Edis QC for the prosecution calls in DS Philip Audrey (sp?): an expert on the archive transfer lists provided by News International | ||
DS Audrey compared five archive lists from News International and another document which sets out the structure of the archive records | ||
The DC says there was no specific area for CEO, but there was one dedicated to Rebekah Brooks – a number of boxes noted as her notebooks | ||
The DC also looked for the transfer records of Brooks PA, Deborah Keegan, mainly during her time at the Sun. | ||
Edis for the QC adds some extra filing lists for the archive for the jury to add to their (mounting) bundles. | ||
Edis for the crown goes through a number of Deborah Keegan archive filings: three for 2001, Jan 2004, Jan 2007, Oct 2008, May 09 | ||
Another 24/08/09 transfer list relates to the archiving of 4 boxes of material from the Sun. Another six boxes 2010 | ||
These were all transfer lists from the Sun editor’s office. The DC got these lists from Nick Mays NI archivist when requesting Sun records. | ||
The DC confirms to jury that Nick Mays, NI archivist, never declined to give him whatever he asked for. | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Philip Audrey | ||
Trevor Burke QC, counsel for Cheryl Carter, has questions for the DC in charge of transfer lists about precisely when they arrived. | ||
Trevor Burke confirms that 46 boxes were archived covering NOTW, Sun and executive offices. 39 remained after Carter removed seven | ||
Witness – Nicholas Mays (Archivist at New International) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions Nicholas Mays | ||
Edis recalls Nicholas Mays, NI archivist, as a witness for the prosecution. | ||
Saunders apologises to Mr Mays for calling him back. Edis hands him the newly filled bundle and the file transfer records from archives. | ||
Mays confirms he provided the police with this transfer list, and “nothing was ever withheld”. | ||
Mays confirms that the Sun list was filed under ‘editorial’ rather than under the chief executive office, though they came from there. | ||
Edis asks Mays about Philippa Bishop – a temp who helped out in the office. Mays confirms his red markings on the transfer list | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines Nicholas Mays | ||
Trevor Burke QC for Cheryl Carter, cross examines Nicholas Mays about the temp worker’s 2009 list. He cannot recall when he gave to Police | ||
Nicholas Mays is asked to go back to archives and indicate which if any of these boxes have been withdrawn from archives by police. | ||
Saunders jokes to Nick Mays as he leaves: “We’ll give a video link” Brief break as jury asked to leave | ||
Witness – Deborah Keegan (Former Personal Assistant to Rebekah Brooks) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions Deborah Keegan | ||
Prosecution recall former Brooks PA Deborah Keegan for further cross examination by Trevor Burke, counsel for Carter | ||
Deborah Keegan is asked whether she recalls Philippa Bishop, a temporary worker, who filed several boxes in archives. | ||
Keegan is taken over the new lists of various archivings by Trevor Burke. Joe Ball archiving was by PA to deputy Sun editor. | ||
Edis re-examines Deborah Keegan on the Phillipa Bishop document: she worked in CEO office between leaving Sun and going to TMS | ||
Keegan agrees these were Sun editorial office: “we didn’t see any reason for leaving them behind… we didn’t have a reason not to take” | ||
Mr Justice Saunders questions Deborah Keegan | ||
Saunders has some questions for Deborah Keegan: “Please don’t guess the answer….” | ||
Saunders first question about clearout from Sun when Brooks moved to CEO in late summer 2009 – no exact date on a Sunday | ||
“Who was involved in that clearout?” asks Saunders. “Myself and Cheryl… and removal people.” | ||
“Where did the sorting out take place?” asks Saunders of Keegan. “More in the office we were moving to.” She can’t recall who did moving. | ||
“How long did it take you?” asks Saunders. “Maybe two or three hours.” “Just tell us what you did?” he asks of Keegan | ||
Keegan says she put them into yellow crates. Putting into rubbish bags happened in new office. “Does it all happen on same day?” | ||
“What did you do by sorting out?” asks Saunders. “Throw away broken folders”. Other stuff put in file for temp. | ||
Saunders asks what happened to kept stuff put into the cupboards? “I don’t remember.” “Do you remember having anything to do with archiving” | ||
“Apparently we did,” says Keegan of archiving. “Where did you get ‘apparently’ from?” asks Saunders. “What do you remember?” | ||
“Did you have anything to do with actually archiving the boxes?” asks Saunders. “I’m sure I would have done…” says Keegan. | ||
Saunders points out there doesn’t appear to be an archiving list. The archiving would have been “done at a later stage.” | ||
“We wanted to clear the office, sort it, and do the paperwork later,” says Keegan of that Sunday weekend. | ||
Keegan agrees there would lists like seen before | ||
“We’ve now completed the evidence for Mrs Keegan,” Justice Saunders tells the jury. DS Massey is recalled by Edis for the crown | ||
Witness – DS John Massey (Operation Sasha Detective) | ||
Prosecution Counsel questions DS Massey | ||
Massey is asked about the search of material of Rebekah Brooks provided by Kingsley Napley 2012, and compared to NI CEO filing lists in 2011 | ||
Massey has a 7 page statement of findings comparing the two sets of documents from 2011 and 2012 | ||
Laidlaw for Brooks intervenes explaining that defence provided the list of Linklaters and Kingsley Napley material | ||
“There are number of items that correlate to the filing list” – i.e. some of the Kingsley Napley material comes from the CEO office. | ||
DS Massey discovered in Kingsley Napley: “one cardboard box – Mr Murdoch 2000-2008” appeared to be sundry correspondence, agenda, minutes | ||
On the CEO executive lists was a file of documents relating to phone hacking: Massey recovered a letter from Mr Lewis but no file. | ||
Edis asks DS Massey about the executive office filings for Brooks notebooks: four notebooks recovered at Kingsley Napley. | ||
“There is a reasonable amount of documentation which was ‘similar’ to CEO documents, but certainly not all of them,’ says DS Massey. | ||
Counsel for Rebekah Brooks cross examines DS Massey | ||
Laidlaw for Rebekah Brooks introduces another filing list of her documents handed over to her solicitors: Linklaters and Kingsley Napley | ||
Laidlaw points to a crate pushed into doors of Court 12 by Kingsley Napley staff: 8 or so of those big file boxes given to Brooks’ lawyers | ||
Laidlaw points to Ms Connell “a lady dressed in black” Saunders points out “they’re all dressed in black”. Laughter. | ||
Ms Connell has gone through files in Kingsley Napley and CEO lists: marking in green what tallies, in yellow where there is none, | ||
Laidlaw also has a list of what Kingsley Napley think the police took in their searches of Brooks’ belongings. | ||
Laidlaw establishes four Brooks notebooks from Kingsley Napley when through a legal privilege exercise. He took all desktop diaries. | ||
These desk diaries have already been adduced in terms of Milly Dowler and Eimear Cook. | ||
Counsel for Cheryl Carter cross examines DS Massey | ||
Burke, for Cheryl Carter, cross examines DS Massey on material recovered from Brooks’ solicitors. | ||
Burke for Carter says it appears the only reason items ended up at Kingsley Napley was because PA took them from office to Brooks. | ||
Burke then returns the moment when Carter visits Putney police, and lawyers write back later identifying some of the docs. | ||
DS Massey is asked by both defence counsel to go back and compare his lists with the new ones provided by them of Brooks docs #homework | ||
Further Prosecution questions to DS Massey | ||
Edis asks DS Massey how long this cross check will take: “Two to three days perhaps,” says Massey. | ||
DS Massey is excused and Edis asks the jury to add another statement to their bundles (tables groaning with the weight now, perhaps) | ||
This is more call data material from Cheryl Carter’s phone on 10/07/11 – the day the last edition of News of the World was published. | ||
July 10th 2011 is also two days after Carter removed 7 boxes from the archive. Carter making calls from Bicester and environs around 11 am | ||
The map from that Sunday NOTW was closed and boxes removed from archive shows Cheryl Carter moving to the Enstone area with her phone | ||
Minutes later, around noon, two days after withdrawing 7 boxes from archives, Cheryl Carter, is near Chipping Norton. | ||
More mapping of Cheryl Carter’s calls on Sunday July 10th 2011 takes her to Charlbury, Woodstock, Bletchington, Beckley. | ||
“Those masts have an area of coverage…” Edis claims 11.16 to 14.26 hours on 10/07/11 around Brooks’ Oxfordshire residence. | ||
3 or 4 minute break after an intervention by Clegg, counsel for Mark Hanna before the evidence of Tony Cox. | ||
Witness Statement – Tony Cox (Co-Director of Corunna Solutions – Counter Surveillance) | ||
Prosecution Counsel reads Tony Cox statement | ||
Edis reads a statement by Tony Cox – he’s a co-director of Corunna solutions, co partner with David Johnson: anti and counter surveillance | ||
The company also know as CST contracts self employed security operatives: they work a lot with ICP, who work a lot with NI and Mark Hanna. | ||
Cox identifies a surveillance report and explains about the ‘Blackhawk’ codename for counter surveillance for Rebekah Brooks. | ||
Cox explains the two phones Ops 1/Blackhawk 1 and the backup Ops 2/Blackhawk 2 and gives their number. | ||
Cox can’t remember the execs named Kestrel and Sparrowhawk. Cox arrived alone outside Lewisham police station when Brooks was arrested | ||
Cox said he did counter surveillance on Blackhawk/Brooks while she was in custody and her return to Chelsea Harbour at 12.45 am | ||
Once Brooks home the team went to ‘probing the area’: he noted two other vehicles doing surveillance. Cox enters the reg numbers on phone | ||
Cox said he handed over his Ops 1 phone to Johnson around 7 am that morning. | ||
Two colleagues – one in a black cab, the other in a black golf – were also surveilling the area of Chelsea Harbour that day Brooks arrested | ||
Prosecution Counsel reads Tony Cox second statement | ||
A second statement by Cox (made later in 2012) clarifies his rota operations in July 2011: Kieron a biker on the team. Karen Wakefield. | ||
Further security operatives working on Brooks protection are also named by Cox. He was on day shift on Saturday, nights on Sunday 17/07/11 | ||
Edis explains that completes the business for today: “I hoped to have more time with Detective Massey”: Jury out till 10 am tomorrow. |
Note: All the defendants deny all the charges. The trial continues.
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