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| Police alleged Australia job was reward for Rebekah Brooks's PA moving boxes | |
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| Rebekah Brooks's personal assistant was accused by police of hatching a plan to emigrate to Australia as part of an alleged reward from News International for concealing potential evidence from Scotland Yard's investigation into offences related to phone hacking, the Old Bailey has heard. | Rebekah Brooks's personal assistant was accused by police of hatching a plan to emigrate to Australia as part of an alleged reward from News International for concealing potential evidence from Scotland Yard's investigation into offences related to phone hacking, the Old Bailey has heard. |
| Counsel for Cheryl Carter, Brooks's longstanding PA, said the allegations were made during the police interview process following her arrest on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice in 2012, just weeks before the family had planned to emigrate to Perth. | Counsel for Cheryl Carter, Brooks's longstanding PA, said the allegations were made during the police interview process following her arrest on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice in 2012, just weeks before the family had planned to emigrate to Perth. |
| Carter's passport was confiscated and she could not join her family who went ahead with plans to move to Australia, but later returned after she was charged. | Carter's passport was confiscated and she could not join her family who went ahead with plans to move to Australia, but later returned after she was charged. |
| She told police in a third interview that she had developed her own beauty brand called Famous that had been stocked by Superdrug. She hoped to take that to Australia and would do that without any assistance from News International. Her daughter had planned to join the police academy there. | |
| Trevor Burke, for Carter, told the court on Tuesday: "Police, during the interview process, made certain allegations that Mrs Carter was going to be rewarded for the removal of the boxes by being given a job in Australia for removal of boxes." | Trevor Burke, for Carter, told the court on Tuesday: "Police, during the interview process, made certain allegations that Mrs Carter was going to be rewarded for the removal of the boxes by being given a job in Australia for removal of boxes." |
| On Monday the jury heard that Carter had requested the urgent transfer of seven boxes belonging to Brooks from the News International archive in Enfield on 8 July 2011, the day after the publisher's then chairman, James Murdoch, had announced the News of the World was closing in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal. | On Monday the jury heard that Carter had requested the urgent transfer of seven boxes belonging to Brooks from the News International archive in Enfield on 8 July 2011, the day after the publisher's then chairman, James Murdoch, had announced the News of the World was closing in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal. |
| The jury heard that Carter's son Nick, who was working for News International as an administration assistant, had been asked by his mother to collect the boxes after they arrived at the company's headquarters in Thomas More Square in Wapping, east London. | The jury heard that Carter's son Nick, who was working for News International as an administration assistant, had been asked by his mother to collect the boxes after they arrived at the company's headquarters in Thomas More Square in Wapping, east London. |
| "She just asked me to take some boxes for her home," he said under cross-examination. Gary Keegan, the husband of another of Brooks's secretaries, also assisted, Carter recalled. | "She just asked me to take some boxes for her home," he said under cross-examination. Gary Keegan, the husband of another of Brooks's secretaries, also assisted, Carter recalled. |
| "I drove home, unloaded them from the car in the landing as soon as you walk in the front door," he said. | "I drove home, unloaded them from the car in the landing as soon as you walk in the front door," he said. |
| Carter said it was a "regular occurrence" to take material from the 10th floor at News International home, because his mother would get sent a lot of makeup samples for a beauty column she wrote for the Sun, which she could not store in the office. | Carter said it was a "regular occurrence" to take material from the 10th floor at News International home, because his mother would get sent a lot of makeup samples for a beauty column she wrote for the Sun, which she could not store in the office. |
| He did not know what was in the boxes and he did not discuss the contents with his mother. | He did not know what was in the boxes and he did not discuss the contents with his mother. |
| In November 2011, months after the closure of the paper, Carter gave a statement to the police describing what happened. | In November 2011, months after the closure of the paper, Carter gave a statement to the police describing what happened. |
| The jury heard that at the time his mother and father, Jeff, were flying home from a trip to Australia where his mother had attended an interview for a job as a secretary on the Perth Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch. | The jury heard that at the time his mother and father, Jeff, were flying home from a trip to Australia where his mother had attended an interview for a job as a secretary on the Perth Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch. |
| Carter confirmed to Burke he had "no prior discussion" with his mother about the interview and was "not concerned he was getting her into trouble". | Carter confirmed to Burke he had "no prior discussion" with his mother about the interview and was "not concerned he was getting her into trouble". |
| The jury were then told that the Carter family had been contemplating emigrating to Australia since 2003 and had gone as far as getting a visa in 2007 which would allow them entry to the country for up to five years. | The jury were then told that the Carter family had been contemplating emigrating to Australia since 2003 and had gone as far as getting a visa in 2007 which would allow them entry to the country for up to five years. |
| They eventually decided to go on 22 January 2012 and tickets were bought for his mother, his father, his sister and her boyfriend, and his best friend. | They eventually decided to go on 22 January 2012 and tickets were bought for his mother, his father, his sister and her boyfriend, and his best friend. |
| Cheryl Carter was arrested on 6 January 2012, just weeks before the planned flight, but the rest of the family decided to proceed in the hope that she would later join them, the jury heard. | Cheryl Carter was arrested on 6 January 2012, just weeks before the planned flight, but the rest of the family decided to proceed in the hope that she would later join them, the jury heard. |
| She was subsequently charged with one count of trying to pervert the course of justice by helping to conceal the boxes, which have never been retrieved, from the police. | She was subsequently charged with one count of trying to pervert the course of justice by helping to conceal the boxes, which have never been retrieved, from the police. |
| She denies the charge and has said that the notebooks, which were deposited in the archive in 2009, had been mislabelled and related to a beauty column she had on the paper. | She denies the charge and has said that the notebooks, which were deposited in the archive in 2009, had been mislabelled and related to a beauty column she had on the paper. |
| The jury has been told the boxes were labelled as "All notebooks from Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) from 1995 to 2007" spanning her career from the News of the World to the Sun, where she was editor until 2009. | The jury has been told the boxes were labelled as "All notebooks from Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) from 1995 to 2007" spanning her career from the News of the World to the Sun, where she was editor until 2009. |
| They also heard that Carter made an urgent request by email for the boxes to be removed on 8 July 2011 and they were duly delivered to Wapping from the archive in Enfield. | They also heard that Carter made an urgent request by email for the boxes to be removed on 8 July 2011 and they were duly delivered to Wapping from the archive in Enfield. |
| News International's archivist, Nick Mays, told the jury that he had later made a note on the paperwork relating to the boxes saying: "She told Nick Mays (archivist) that many of them were her notebooks or Deborah Keegan's Rebekah's PAs, rather than Rebekah's own notebooks." | News International's archivist, Nick Mays, told the jury that he had later made a note on the paperwork relating to the boxes saying: "She told Nick Mays (archivist) that many of them were her notebooks or Deborah Keegan's Rebekah's PAs, rather than Rebekah's own notebooks." |
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