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Phone-hacking trial: Charlie Brooks 'removed bags from home' Phone-hacking trial: Charlie Brooks 'feared porn leak'
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Charlie Brooks has told the phone-hacking trial he removed two bags from his home before a police raid because they contained a novel he was writing. Charlie Brooks has told the phone-hacking trial he hid pornography from police because he feared embarrassing details would be leaked to the press.
Mr Brooks told the Old Bailey he did not want police to take his laptop. He told the Old Bailey a "lot of stuff had been leaked, particularly to the Guardian" since the start of the police's Operation Weeting.
He said he was expecting police to raid the home he shared with his wife Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, in July 2011. He also said he removed two bags containing a novel he was writing before a police raid.
He denies perverting the course of justice by concealing potential evidence from the police. He denies perverting the course of justice by concealing evidence.
Questioned by his barrister, Neil Saunders QC, Mr Brooks said he did not want to lose his Apple Mac laptop because it contained his novel and historical notes he had gathered as part of his research. Mr Brooks said he took a bag of pornographic DVDs from the London flat he shared with his wife Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, and hid it behind some bins.
'Bit of smut'
Questioned by his barrister, Neil Saunders QC, he said the DVDs were of "an embarrassing nature".
"I envisaged 20 policemen coming in and emptying every drawer and looking under every nook and cranny, and I did think about my DVDs," he said.
He also said he took a Sony Vaio laptop from the flat.
"It had some important book ideas that weren't backed up anywhere else, but it also had a bit of smut on it too," he said.
In hiding the items behind the bins, he said never thought about the presence of CCTV cameras.
The jury has seen pictures from the cameras, showing him returning from the bins empty-handed before the police raid.
Officers also raided the couple's Oxfordshire home, and Mr Brooks said he removed two bags from that address because he was expecting the raids in July 2011.
He said he did not want to lose his Apple Mac laptop because it contained his novel and historical notes he had gathered as part of his research.
He denied asking members of Mrs Brooks's security team to remove any other items from their Oxfordshire home.He denied asking members of Mrs Brooks's security team to remove any other items from their Oxfordshire home.
Mrs Brooks denies conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, conspiracy to hack phones and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.Mrs Brooks denies conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, conspiracy to hack phones and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.
Mr and Mrs Brooks are being tried alongside five other defendants over alleged phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World and the Sun newspapers.Mr and Mrs Brooks are being tried alongside five other defendants over alleged phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World and the Sun newspapers.
The trial continues.The trial continues.