Hacking scandal boss pleads 'not guilty'
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June 6, 2013, Thursday
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THE former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International yesterday denied charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and trying to thwart a police investigation into tabloid wrongdoing.
Rebekah Brooks answered "not guilty" in a firm voice to five charges at a court hearing at London's Southwark Crown Court.
The 45-year-old former editor of Murdoch's News of the World and Sun tabloids is one of the key figures in Britain's phone-hacking scandal.
She appeared along with a dozen others, mostly former News International employees, facing similar charges.
Also in the crowded dock were Brooks' husband, Charlie Brooks, and former News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman, who like Brooks entered pleas of "not guilty."
They also will face criminal trials.
The phone hacking scandal erupted in 2011, after it was revealed that journalists at News International's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid routinely hacked into the voicemail messages of celebrities, members of the royal household and other people in the public eye, including crime victims and a murdered 13-year-old girl.
Rebekah Brooks answered "not guilty" in a firm voice to five charges at a court hearing at London's Southwark Crown Court.
The 45-year-old former editor of Murdoch's News of the World and Sun tabloids is one of the key figures in Britain's phone-hacking scandal.
She appeared along with a dozen others, mostly former News International employees, facing similar charges.
Also in the crowded dock were Brooks' husband, Charlie Brooks, and former News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman, who like Brooks entered pleas of "not guilty."
They also will face criminal trials.
The phone hacking scandal erupted in 2011, after it was revealed that journalists at News International's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid routinely hacked into the voicemail messages of celebrities, members of the royal household and other people in the public eye, including crime victims and a murdered 13-year-old girl.
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