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CCTV footage showing Rebekah Brooks's husband Charlie allegedly involved in a botched plan to hide evidence from police has been released. CCTV footage showing Rebekah Brooks's husband Charlie and security staff working for News International allegedly hiding evidence from police investigating phone hacking has been released.
The phone-hacking trial has heard allegations that the day Brooks was first quizzed by police and before her home was searched, Charlie hid a laptop and a bag behind a bin in an underground car park of their plush London apartment block where it was picked up by the Brooks's security team. Footage showed a sequence of events on 17 July 2011 to lunchtime the following day involving Charlie Brooks, a team of security and drivers working for News International and a cleaner who was alleged to have found a jiffy bag and computer said to have been disposed of following Rebekah Brooks's arrest that day.
After the police completed a search, the security team returned with a bag and left it in the car park. Prosecutors say the plan went awry for the Brookses because a cleaner then found the material and it was given to the police. Prosecutors in the phone-hacking trial have already told the jury the crown's case is that it was part of a "quite a complicated and risky" cover-up designed to hinder a police search of the Brooks's Chelsea Harbour home following her arrest at noon.
The alleged intrigue took place in 2011 when News International, the British newspaper division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, became engulfed in a media firestorm and a police inquiry after it was alleged journalists had hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl amongst others. The first footage seen by jurors showed Charlie Brooks emerging out of a lift into the underground car park in the Chelsea Habour building carrying a jiffy bag and a laptop. He disappeared off camera to what the prosecutors said was the "bin area" and moments later he was seen returning to the entrance of the lift "empty-handed".
Both Charlie and Rebekah Brooks deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by hiding material from detectives. Brooks also denies conspiracy to hack phones and authorising illegal payments to public officials. It is alleged that this material was removed from the car park by security operatives and returned later that day after the police search was completed. The conspiracy to conceal evidence backfired after the material was discovered by a cleaner the following day, it was alleged by the prosecution.
CCTV footage shown to the jury at London's Old Bailey court on Tuesday showed Charlie Brooks emerging from a doorway clutching a bag and a laptop on the morning of 17 July 2011, at about the same time his wife was heading to a police station where she would be arrested. The couple, along with News International's head of security Mark Hanna, have been charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice, a charge they have all denied.
He disappeared from view and less than a minute later, the CCTV film showed him returning empty-handed. The three defendants sat in the dock on Tuesday as the jury were shown footage and told of mobile phone call records that placed them in various locations around London on the day of Brooks's arrest.
On Tuesday, the jury also saw Mark Hanna, the ex-head of security at News International, arriving at the car park about two hours later and phone records indicated he had been in regular contact with Charlie Brooks, the court heard. She was driven to Lewisham police station for a pre-arranged interview at noon that day and was arrested a few minutes later.
He disappeared out of camera shot, to the same area where Brooks had been earlier, returning with a brown bag and other material, before driving away. Hanna also denies a charge of perverting the course of justice. The jury was shown footage of Hanna driving into the car park about two hours later to meet her husband in the car park.
At about 3pm, seven detectives arrived and, after a search of the apartment lasting some two hours, they left holding sealed bags with computers and other possessions. Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron told the jury that Charlie Brooks "presents him with a brown bag". He was then recorded going to the bin area where Bryant-Heron said Hanna "collects material".
The court has heard that Brooks then contacted Hanna, and at shortly after 9.30pm, following a flurry of calls between the security team, one arrived at the car park. He gave a friend of Brooks's two pizza boxes, removed a large black bag from the car and also vanished from view to the bin area before returning empty-handed. Moments later Hanna was seen emerging from the bin area carrying a brown brief case, a jiffy bag and the silver laptop and heading towards the lift. He was later captured on camera going to the overground level where he another security man is waiting for him in a small blue Renault. He got into the car and they drove off, heading for the Embankment, the jury was told.
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot," the security contractor wrote in a text message to a colleague, prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron told the court. The Broadsword phrase was a reference to the film Where Eagles Dare, which starred Richard Burton as a British spy. That afternoon, at about 3pm, Brooks's solicitor Angus McBride was captured on camera letting two police cars into the car park.
The jury were told there were seven police officers in the cars who had been deputed to search Brooks's apartment.
They were recorded on camera about two hours later in the car park carrying computers sealed in plastic and other material seized from the Brooks's home.
Mobile phone records show that Brooks then contacted Hanna, and at shortly after 9.30pm and following a number of calls between the members of security team one of them, named as Daryl Jorsling, arrived in the underground car park ina black Volkswagen Golf.
Bryant-Heron told the jury: "Daryl Jorsling removes a black bin bag from the boot of the care. He moves to the bin area and returns empty-handed."
Then, Bryant-Heron said, a man, identified in the court as a "Mr Perkins" collected two pizzas from the bin area.
The Golf car is then seen departing the building.
Jorsling was contracted to work for News International, which had organsed a security operation, codenamed Blackhawk, following Brooks's resignation on 8 July 2011.
William Geddes, the managing director of an outside security firm responsible for Blackhawk, told the jury it was designed to protect her from the media and members of the public intent on engaging in "hostile reconnaissance" against her.
Following the pizza delivery and the removal of the bin bag from the Golf car, Jorsling was recorded as texting one of his Blackhawk colleagues, David Johnson.
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot," the security contractor wrote in a text message.
The jury has already heard this was a Richard Burton line from the war film Where Eagles Dare.
"Ha! Fuckin amateurs!" the colleague replied."Ha! Fuckin amateurs!" the colleague replied.
"We should have done a DLB [dead letter box] or brush contact on riverside. Cheers mate. Log in the hours ad [sic] "pizza delivery", Johnson added.
The following day, while the Brookses went to their lawyer's office, a cleaner discovered the black bag, the court heard. On their return, Charlie Brooks and members of their security team were seen apparently searching for the bag.The following day, while the Brookses went to their lawyer's office, a cleaner discovered the black bag, the court heard. On their return, Charlie Brooks and members of their security team were seen apparently searching for the bag.
The court heard an employee at the apartment block contacted police and handed over a brown briefcase and a black laptop to officers. Footage of the cleaner showed a man, identified as Mr Nascimento, in the car park driving a mini tractor. He went to the bin area and wheeled out a green minikip then proceeded to drive through the car park to attach three more mini-skips.
The trial of Hanna, Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, and that of four others, is expected to last until April. The jury was told that he found the black bag behind the bins, although this itself was not captured on camera.
The jury was told that the cleaner will be giving evidence for the prosecution at the trial.
The trial continues.
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