Rebekah Brooks to be questioned by police over phone hacking

[beac]

Source: The Telegraph

Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, faces being questioned under police caution over her role in the phone hacking scandal which brought down the News of the World.

Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, is set to be questioned under police caution over her role in the phone hacking scandal which brought down the News of the World. By Patrick Sawer, and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
9:00PM BST 09 Jul 2011
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Mrs Brooks, who was said to have twice offered to resign and twice been refused, will be asked to explain what she knew about the hacking of mobile phones belonging to celebrities, victims of crime, terrorism and even relatives of soldiers killed in action.

Senior executives at News International are understood to have been warned by the Metropolitan Police that their chief executive will be expected to present herself at a London police station to give a full account of the extent of her actions during the period from 2000 to 2003 when she was editor of the now disgraced paper.

Mrs Brooks will also be asked to clarify whether she authorised payments to police officers in return for information.





Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8627519/Rebekah-Brooks-to-be-questioned-by-police-over-phone-hacking.html

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(article also includes some interesting info on her background and rise through the NI ranks)

[beac]

1. Wondering how far Murdoch will go to protect her as I just read this shocker:

Mr Murdoch was seen leaving his home with his arm around Ms Brooks just a few hours after this arrival in the UK. When asked what his first priority was, Mr Murdoch said: "This one", gesturing towards Ms Brooks.

found at the 8:19 p.m. mark on this Guardian blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/10/news-world-hacking-scandal-live

[Ian David]

2. Oh, yeah. He's banging her, isn't he? n/t

[anneboleyn]

5. My thoughts too. Nasty. At some point, he'll still throw her under the bus.

When things really get hot in the frying pan in terms of criminal sentences being handed down, it won't matter how clever she is in the sack. The old badger will kick her to the curb,

[anneboleyn]

3. The Milly Dowler case really blew this wide open. What they did to that girl's family was appalling.

Brooks is in this up to her eyeballs, and I hope that Scotland Yard does everything within its power to bring each and every one of these scumbags to justice. What kind of human being (using the term loosely) would delete voice mails from a MISSING child's inbox, leading her family to believe she might still be alive and impeding the police investigation?

The family should file a civil suit for every pound this scum newspaper is worth (not sure what the UK regulations are on such matters, but they deserve everything they can get for the mental anguish this caused the family members).

[beac]

6. The latest is that they hacked the phones of 9/11 victims families.

Sick, sick, sick.

And, in addition to getting the ever-loving sh*t sued out of them by the Dowlers and the 4K+ other victims, they could be facing MASSIVE fines in the US for bribing foreign officials: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8629180/Rupert-Murdochs-News-Corp-could-face-100m-bill-for-US-investigation-into-police-payments.html

I hope Murdoch isn't left with a pot to piss in.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. "investigation of every one of its business units worldwide"

Experts said it would be likely to involve a "systematic and all encompassing" investigation of every one of its business units worldwide, to uncover unlawful bribery, legitimate payments wrongly accounted for, and to check whether sufficiently robust anti-corruption measures are in place.



:wow:

Thanks for the link to the Torygraph article!

[beac]

9. Not usually my first choice in UK papers, but they did get the scoop on this one!

Now, let's hope this sctually happens and this article isn't the last bit of news on the subject.

[tishaLA]

4. how many lawyers has our miss Brooks spoken to already?

You know she's up to her eyeballs in this mess. Someone on here today suggested that the shocking revelation Brooks warned of might involve hacking Diana Spencer's phone. I'd never thought of it before, but I sure can imagine it to be possible.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Brooks could be quizzed as witness by phone-hack probe police (BBC)

News International chief Rebekah Brooks could be questioned by police investigating phone-hacking by the News of the World, the BBC understands.

It is understood she would be interviewed as a witness not a suspect.

She is under pressure to quit over her former editorship of the paper, which has closed amid the hacking scandal.

Relatives of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked, meet Deputy PM Nick Clegg later for talks on the public inquiries.

News Corp chairman, and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch flew into London on Sunday to personally handle his organisation's response to the phone-hacking crisis.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14101866




This is evidently an incremental update to this developing story; new info bolded by me for emphasis.

[Bosonic]

10. keep checking back

http://www.hasrebekahbrooksbeensackedyet.com/