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| Rebekah Brooks's former PA 'wouldn't commit crime for her' | Rebekah Brooks's former PA 'wouldn't commit crime for her' |
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| Rebekah Brooks's former assistant, Cheryl Carter, has told the phone-hacking trial she would never commit a crime for her ex-boss. | Rebekah Brooks's former assistant, Cheryl Carter, has told the phone-hacking trial she would never commit a crime for her ex-boss. |
| Questioned by her barrister, Mrs Carter denied she would do "whatever she asked", adding Mrs Brooks had never asked her to commit a crime. | Questioned by her barrister, Mrs Carter denied she would do "whatever she asked", adding Mrs Brooks had never asked her to commit a crime. |
| Mrs Carter is accused of retrieving boxes of notebooks belonging to Mrs Brooks and destroying them in an effort to pervert the course of justice. | Mrs Carter is accused of retrieving boxes of notebooks belonging to Mrs Brooks and destroying them in an effort to pervert the course of justice. |
| Both women deny the charge. | Both women deny the charge. |
| Mrs Carter worked for 16 years as a personal assistant to Mrs Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World, then the Sun, and then chief executive of News International - which owned the newspapers. | |
| 'Shouldn't worry' | 'Shouldn't worry' |
| Mrs Carter, 49, of Chelmsford, Essex, was asked by her counsel, Trevor Burke QC, about her relationship with Mrs Brooks. | |
| He said: "Would you do whatever she asked?" | He said: "Would you do whatever she asked?" |
| "No," replied Mrs Carter. | "No," replied Mrs Carter. |
| Asked whether she would ever break the law for her former employer, she answered: "No, I would not commit a crime for Rebekah Brooks." | |
| Mr Burke then asked her: "Has she ever asked you to?" | Mr Burke then asked her: "Has she ever asked you to?" |
| "No, she hasn't," was the reply. | "No, she hasn't," was the reply. |
| Mrs Carter was then asked about the events of the day that she picked up the seven boxes of notebooks from the News International archive. | |
| On the day after the closure of the News of the World had been announced in July 2011, Mrs Carter had asked her son and a colleague's husband to help with the removal. | |
| Asked by her counsel if, when she called her son to ask for help, she was aware she might be getting him involved in a criminal conspiracy, she replied: "I would never get my son involved in a criminal conspiracy, that is simply not true." | Asked by her counsel if, when she called her son to ask for help, she was aware she might be getting him involved in a criminal conspiracy, she replied: "I would never get my son involved in a criminal conspiracy, that is simply not true." |
| Mrs Carter, who was at times very emotional in giving her evidence, described how police investigating the disappearance of the seven boxes searched her home in Essex. | |
| She was asked by her lawyer if she had phoned Mrs Brooks at the time. | |
| "Yes," she replied. "I told her the police had been and asked about some archive boxes but she shouldn't worry because it was my stuff." | |
| Mrs Carter is one of seven people on trial in connection with the phone-hacking affair, which led to the NoW's closure in 2011. | Mrs Carter is one of seven people on trial in connection with the phone-hacking affair, which led to the NoW's closure in 2011. |
| Mrs Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, also denies conspiring to hacking phones and conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. | |
| All seven defendants deny the various charges. | All seven defendants deny the various charges. |
| The trial continues. | The trial continues. |