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News UK news Rebekah Brooks: 'I understood illegality of payments to police'
Source: The Guardian
Rebekah Brooks was asked on Friday to explain the legality of a series of contacts between her journalists at the Sun and sources connected to the police, military and MI5.
The jury in the phone-hacking trial were shown an email from April 2006, in which a reporter asked her to authorise a payment to a source who had provided a story involving the royal mayor of Tetbury who was leaving his wife.
The reporter wrote: "I would like to keep it anonymous because the contact is a serving police officer. He has supplied us with numerous other tips in the past." The reporter asked that the payment be made in cash through a branch of the Thomas Cook travel agency.
Questioned by her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, Brooks said: "Obviously, a police officer selling information directly associated with their duty, I was absolutely aware of the illegality."
The jury in the phone-hacking trial were shown an email from April 2006, in which a reporter asked her to authorise a payment to a source who had provided a story involving the royal mayor of Tetbury who was leaving his wife.
The reporter wrote: "I would like to keep it anonymous because the contact is a serving police officer. He has supplied us with numerous other tips in the past." The reporter asked that the payment be made in cash through a branch of the Thomas Cook travel agency.
Questioned by her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, Brooks said: "Obviously, a police officer selling information directly associated with their duty, I was absolutely aware of the illegality."
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/28/rebekah-brooks-payments-police-phone-hacking-trial
Good thing she cleared that up...
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