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Rebekah Brooks: I am vindicated by phone-hacking verdicts Rebekah Brooks: I am vindicated by phone-hacking verdicts
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Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has said she feels "vindicated" after being cleared of all charges in the phone-hacking trial. Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has said she feels "vindicated" after being cleared of all charges in the phone-hacking trial.
Speaking to reporters outside her London home, she said "I am innocent of the crimes that I was charged with." Speaking to reporters outside her London home, Mrs Brooks, who was found not guilty on four counts relating to phone hacking, said: "I am innocent of the crimes that I was charged with."
Mrs Brooks was found not guilty of four charges on Tuesday, including conspiracy to hack voicemails. Appearing with her husband, she said it had been tough for all affected.
Royals, celebrities and victims of crime were among those phone hacked. Royals, celebrities and crime victims were among those who had phones hacked.
Cleared
Mrs Brooks said: "I am innocent of the crimes that I was charged with and I feel vindicated by the unanimous verdicts."
She said it had "been tough for everybody" affected by the issues highlighted by this case but said during the three-year police investigation and eight-month trial, the couple had put their "troubles in perspective".
"After all, we have a happy and healthy daughter. We have our brave and resolute mums who have been at court most of the time and we have had strong and unwavering support from all friends, our family and from our legal teams that have believed in us from the beginning," she said.
Mrs Brooks went on: "When I was arrested, it was in the middle of a maelstrom of controversy, of politics and of comment. Some of that was fair but much of it was not so I am very grateful to the jury for coming to their decision."
At the scene
Robin Brant, BBC News
Her legs were shaking, her voice timid as she spoke to cameras assembled - for the first time in eight months - not outside the court.
"I am innocent," Rebekah Brooks said as she thanked her family and her lawyers.
Shouted questions about her failure to detect the criminality at the News of the World and her thoughts on Andy Coulson were ignored.
As the scrum around the pair moved to their waiting car, her husband Charles told the BBC he was "sad" for Coulson.
The only defendant found guilty of phone hacking in the mammoth trial, he faces the prospect of sentencing next week and almost certainly prison.
The Brookses left in a car with their clothes and bags already packed up for them, probably heading home to Oxfordshire.
On Tuesday at London's Old Bailey, Mrs Brooks was found not guilty of conspiracy to hack voicemails, two counts of conspiracy to pay public officials and two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Her husband, Charles Brooks, Mrs Brooks' former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, and News International's former head of security Mark Hanna were also cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
News of the World was closed by its parent company, News International, in July 2011 after it emerged it had instructed a private investigator to intercept voicemails left on the mobile phone of murdered Surrey teenager Milly Dowler in 2002.
Mrs Brooks' successor as editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, was found guilty of a charge of conspiracy to intercept voicemails.