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Phone hacking scandal : Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

Phone hacking scandal : Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges
Phone hacking scandal : Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks are to face charges over phone hacking.

According to Crown Prosecution Service, eight people including Rebekah Brook and Andy Coulson will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking.

Rebekah Brooks will face 2 charges – one relating to the alleged accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages. David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson is also accused in relation to allegedly hacking into Milly Dowler’s phone.

Prosecutors will claim that more than six hundred people, including Hollywood movie superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, were victims of this offence. Other victims of alleged hacking named in connection with the charges were former MP David Blunkett, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Abi Titmuss and John Leslie, Delia Smith, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Sienna Miller, and Wayne Rooney.

Andy Coulson & Rebekah Brooks among eight journalists / case of  murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said victims included the former home secretaries David Blunkett and Charles Clarke, Tessa Jowell MP and her husband, David Mills, and Professor John Tulloch, a victim of the 7 July 2005 terrorist attacks on London.

The allegations that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked led to the News of the World’s closure. Charged in relation to that were Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks, Kuttner, Miskiw, Thurlbeck, and Mulcaire.

Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International / phone hacking scandal
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International / phone hacking scandal

Today the local police said they believed there were 4,775 potential victims of phone hacking, of whom 2,615 had been notified. Sue Akers – the Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner, has told the Leveson inquiry her force had notified more than 702 people who were likely to have been victims.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has received files from the Met’s Operation Weeting team covering thirteen people, including eleven journalists from the News of the World and Mulcaire.

Former spin doctor Andy Coulson & Murdoch’s right hand Rebekah Brooks to be charged over phone hacking / UK News

Rebekah Brooks faces 3 charges relating to the alleged accessing the voicemails of teenage Milly Dowler and former trade union boss Andrew Gilchrist. Alan Coulson, the prime minister David Cameron’s former communications chief, will face 4 charges linked to accusations of accessing the phone messages of Milly Dowler, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and George Best’s son Calum Best.

Accused Rebekah Brooks has told in a statement : ‘ I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship. ‘

Rebekah Brooks added that the charge concerning Milly Dowler was particularly upsetting, not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime.

Eleven journalists and one non-journalist were due to answer police bail today. When the eight who are facing prosecution do so they will be charged. Once police have contacted all the alleged victims, and a list will be made available.

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