Phone-hacking trial: Jury sent out to consider verdicts after hearing eight months of evidence

 
Facing a verdict: Rebekah Brooks (Picture: PA)
Standard Reporter12 June 2014
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Jurors have been sent out to consider their verdict in the trial of ex-News of the World editors and staff accused of hacking into mobile phones.

Ex-editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are among those who stand accused of being involved in a conspiracy to hack phones dating back as far as 2000 and spanning six years.

Over 130 days, the eight women and three men of the jury have listened to the evidence in Court 12 of the Old Bailey in what has been described as the trial of the century.

Ex-No 10 spin doctor Coulson, 46, is also accused of two counts of conspiring with former NotW royal editor Clive Goodman, 56, to commit misconduct in a public office by paying police officers for two royal directories.

Brooks, also 46, faces the same charge over signing off payments to a Sun journalist's military contact between 2004 and 2012.

The ex-News International (NI) chief executive is also accused of plotting with her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, 50, to pervert the course of justice by removing seven boxes from the company archive just days before she was arrested in 2011.

Brooks, along with her husband Charlie and NI director of security Mark Hanna, 51, is further charged with perverting the course of justice by hiding potential evidence from police in July 2011.

Coulson, of Charing, Kent, the Brooks, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, Hanna of Buckingham, Carter of Chelmsford, Essex, Goodman of Addlestone, Surrey, and 74-year-old Kuttner, of Woodford Green, Essex, deny the charges against them.

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