Murdoch鈥檚 top editors 鈥榦versaw hacking鈥
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Rupert Murdoch’s former editor Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments to officials when they ran the now defunct News of the World, a London court heard yesterday.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis told the Old Bailey that Brooks and Coulson were in charge at the Sunday tabloid or its daily sister paper the Sun when the illegal behavior was alleged to have taken place.
Edis said both had sanctioned illegal payments to be made to public officials, including one by Brooks for nearly 40,000 pounds (US$64,000) to a senior Ministry of Defence official. Coulson is accused of authorizing a payment to a royal police protection officer to secure a phone book with contact details for royal staff.
When police began to reveal the truth, Brooks and other figures at Murdoch’s British newspaper business mounted a cover-up, Edis said.
Brooks and Coulson are on trial with six others, accused of conspiring to hack phones and make illegal payments. They deny all the charges. Coulson also faces two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The court heard yesterday that three former senior journalists from the News of the World had pleaded guilty to charges relating to phone-hacking, and Edis said the jury would have to decide whether Brooks and Coulson were likely to have known about the illegal behavior.
The court was also told that private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who worked for the paper, had also pleaded guilty to hacking the mobile phone of a missing schoolgirl.
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