Rebekah Brooks takes the stand
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:44 pm
Well we have had a couple of days or so of Rebekah Brooks in the witness box in the phone hacking trial and very interesting it's been too.
Day 1 was about the trials and tribulations of being an only child and then making her way in the newspaper industry where some nasty, nasty, nasty men journalists used to be very beastly to her. She also gave the impression that she knew as much about phone hacking at the NOW as she might have known about quantum physics or the biology of a great crested newt.
Think of Day 2 as a kind of Hello exclusive. She described her "car crash" personal life in which she was shagging Coulson while she was married to Ross Kemp and came close to tears whilst doing so.
She denied any knowledge of what main phone hacker at the NOW, Glenn Mulcaire was up to. In fact she said she had no idea who Glenn Mulcaire was while she was NOW editor even though Mulcaire was on an annual contract of ?92,000. She said her "sign-off level" for payments in 2000 and 2001 was around ?50,000, so requests for larger sums should have come to both her and then-managing editor Stuart Kuttner. She should have been told about the contract but wasn't.
Worth mentioning that it is her defence QC that is leading her through this stuff. I wonder if Ms Brooks has considered a part as Cinderella in panto this Xmas?
Day 1 was about the trials and tribulations of being an only child and then making her way in the newspaper industry where some nasty, nasty, nasty men journalists used to be very beastly to her. She also gave the impression that she knew as much about phone hacking at the NOW as she might have known about quantum physics or the biology of a great crested newt.
Think of Day 2 as a kind of Hello exclusive. She described her "car crash" personal life in which she was shagging Coulson while she was married to Ross Kemp and came close to tears whilst doing so.
She denied any knowledge of what main phone hacker at the NOW, Glenn Mulcaire was up to. In fact she said she had no idea who Glenn Mulcaire was while she was NOW editor even though Mulcaire was on an annual contract of ?92,000. She said her "sign-off level" for payments in 2000 and 2001 was around ?50,000, so requests for larger sums should have come to both her and then-managing editor Stuart Kuttner. She should have been told about the contract but wasn't.
Worth mentioning that it is her defence QC that is leading her through this stuff. I wonder if Ms Brooks has considered a part as Cinderella in panto this Xmas?