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| Phone-hacking investigation: Rebekah Brooks's former bodyguard charged | Phone-hacking investigation: Rebekah Brooks's former bodyguard charged |
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| Rebekah Brooks's former bodyguard is to be charged with concealing potential evidence from the Scotland Yard investigations into phone hacking and the bribing of public officials. | Rebekah Brooks's former bodyguard is to be charged with concealing potential evidence from the Scotland Yard investigations into phone hacking and the bribing of public officials. |
| The Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday that David Johnson, whom it describes as "a security professional who was employed to provide a protection service to Rebekah Brooks", should be charged with perverting the course of justice. | The Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday that David Johnson, whom it describes as "a security professional who was employed to provide a protection service to Rebekah Brooks", should be charged with perverting the course of justice. |
| Brooks is the former News of the World and Sun editor who became chief executive of News International, before quitting in July 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal. | Brooks is the former News of the World and Sun editor who became chief executive of News International, before quitting in July 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal. |
| Six others, including Brooks and her husband Charlie, have already been charged over the alleged attempt to conceal evidence. | Six others, including Brooks and her husband Charlie, have already been charged over the alleged attempt to conceal evidence. |
| Johnson is alleged to have concealed the evidence in July 2011, when the phone-hacking scandal erupted following revelations that the News of the World had hacked the voicemail of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler. | Johnson is alleged to have concealed the evidence in July 2011, when the phone-hacking scandal erupted following revelations that the News of the World had hacked the voicemail of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler. |
| The charge reads: "David Johnson, on a day between 15 July 2011 and 19 July 2011, conspired together with Rebekah Brooks, Charles Brooks, Mark Hanna, Lee Sandell, Daryl Jorsling and Paul Edwards, and with persons unknown, to do an act or a series of acts, which had a tendency to pervert the course of public justice, namely to conceal computers and other items from officers of the Metropolitan police service who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and the Sun newspapers." | The charge reads: "David Johnson, on a day between 15 July 2011 and 19 July 2011, conspired together with Rebekah Brooks, Charles Brooks, Mark Hanna, Lee Sandell, Daryl Jorsling and Paul Edwards, and with persons unknown, to do an act or a series of acts, which had a tendency to pervert the course of public justice, namely to conceal computers and other items from officers of the Metropolitan police service who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and the Sun newspapers." |
| The investigation into the alleged concealing of evidence from police is called Operation Sacha. | The investigation into the alleged concealing of evidence from police is called Operation Sacha. |
| Johnson is scheduled to appear before Westminster magistrates court on 8 May. | Johnson is scheduled to appear before Westminster magistrates court on 8 May. |
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