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| Rebekah Brooks trial to start in September at Old Bailey | Rebekah Brooks trial to start in September at Old Bailey |
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| The former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, is to face a trial starting in September over five charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal, a court has ruled. | The former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, is to face a trial starting in September over five charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal, a court has ruled. |
| Brooks, a former editor of the Sunday tabloid and the Sun newspaper, will be tried at the Old Bailey alongside eight other defendants including Andy Coulson, the former director of communications at Downing Street and ex-editor of the News of the World who is facing one charge in relation to alleged phone hacking. Coulson pleaded not guilty to this charge on Thursday. | Brooks, a former editor of the Sunday tabloid and the Sun newspaper, will be tried at the Old Bailey alongside eight other defendants including Andy Coulson, the former director of communications at Downing Street and ex-editor of the News of the World who is facing one charge in relation to alleged phone hacking. Coulson pleaded not guilty to this charge on Thursday. |
| On Wednesday Brooks pleaded not guilty to all charges she is facing which include one general accusation that she conspired with others to hack phones, two charges relating to making inappropriate payments to public officials for stories and two charges alleging she conspired with others to conceal material including computers and documents from police investigating the phone-hacking scandal in July 2011. | On Wednesday Brooks pleaded not guilty to all charges she is facing which include one general accusation that she conspired with others to hack phones, two charges relating to making inappropriate payments to public officials for stories and two charges alleging she conspired with others to conceal material including computers and documents from police investigating the phone-hacking scandal in July 2011. |
| Also to stand trial with Brooks in September are her husband, Charlie Brooks, the race horse trainer and friend of the prime minister and two others who worked with her around the time of the closure of the Sunday tabloid, her former secretary Cheryl Carter and the News International head of security Mark Hanna. | Also to stand trial with Brooks in September are her husband, Charlie Brooks, the race horse trainer and friend of the prime minister and two others who worked with her around the time of the closure of the Sunday tabloid, her former secretary Cheryl Carter and the News International head of security Mark Hanna. |
| They face separate charges alleging they conspired to pervert the course of justice and all pleaded not guilty in a hearing earlier this week. | They face separate charges alleging they conspired to pervert the course of justice and all pleaded not guilty in a hearing earlier this week. |
| The trial will start on 9 September, said Mr Justice Saunders at Southwark crown court in a pre-trial and case management hearing on Friday. | The trial will start on 9 September, said Mr Justice Saunders at Southwark crown court in a pre-trial and case management hearing on Friday. |
| The other defendants who will be tried in September are the former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former head of news Ian Edmondson and senior reporter James Weatherup. They have all pleaded not guilty to a single charge in relation to allegations of phone hacking. | The other defendants who will be tried in September are the former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former head of news Ian Edmondson and senior reporter James Weatherup. They have all pleaded not guilty to a single charge in relation to allegations of phone hacking. |
| It was decided at Southwark that Glenn Mulcaire, who is facing a separate charge relating to the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, which he denies, will also be tried in September. | It was decided at Southwark that Glenn Mulcaire, who is facing a separate charge relating to the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, which he denies, will also be tried in September. |
| Further trials are provisionally scheduled for January relating to allegations of inappropriate payments to public officials for stories and are expected to last until April 2014. | Further trials are provisionally scheduled for January relating to allegations of inappropriate payments to public officials for stories and are expected to last until April 2014. |
| Two pre-trial hearings in relation to the phone-hacking charges which were brought about as a result of a Met police investigation codenamed Operation Weeting and the corrupt payments charges which arose out of the Operation Elveden investigation are scheduled for July. | Two pre-trial hearings in relation to the phone-hacking charges which were brought about as a result of a Met police investigation codenamed Operation Weeting and the corrupt payments charges which arose out of the Operation Elveden investigation are scheduled for July. |
| Separately on Friday, a woman working for the Metropolitan police division handling 999 calls and dispatching officers to incidents became the 67th arrest arising from the investigation into alleged illegal payments to public officials by journalists. | Separately on Friday, a woman working for the Metropolitan police division handling 999 calls and dispatching officers to incidents became the 67th arrest arising from the investigation into alleged illegal payments to public officials by journalists. |
| The 38-year-old woman, a member of police staff in the Met's Central Communications Command, was arrested at her home in Essex at about 6am on Friday and was being interviewed at an east London police station. | The 38-year-old woman, a member of police staff in the Met's Central Communications Command, was arrested at her home in Essex at about 6am on Friday and was being interviewed at an east London police station. |
| She was arrested for suspected misconduct in a public office and suspected corruption by officers working on Operation Elveden, the Met investigation into alleged illegal payments by journalists to police and other public officials. | She was arrested for suspected misconduct in a public office and suspected corruption by officers working on Operation Elveden, the Met investigation into alleged illegal payments by journalists to police and other public officials. |
| Central Communications Command has a staff of more than 2,000 and operates three call centres in London that handle an average of 6,000 999 emergency calls and more than 15,000 non-emergency calls per day. | Central Communications Command has a staff of more than 2,000 and operates three call centres in London that handle an average of 6,000 999 emergency calls and more than 15,000 non-emergency calls per day. |
| The division is also responsible for dispatching Met officers to deal with incidents and providing specialist communications for the policing of large-scale public events across London. | The division is also responsible for dispatching Met officers to deal with incidents and providing specialist communications for the policing of large-scale public events across London. |
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