Rebekah Brooks' former secretary given Sun on Sunday column
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Version 0 of 1. Rebekah Brooks’s former secretary is to return to the Sun, seven months after being cleared of plotting with her former boss to conceal evidence from police investigating News International. Cheryl Carter, who spent eight months alongside Brooks in the dock at the Old Bailey last year, has been hired to write a beauty column for the Sun on Sunday. It is full circle for Carter, who was given her own column in the Sun when she worked for Brooks while she was editor of the paper. Her career as a secretary and a beauty expert collapsed when she was arrested in January 2012 by police investigating hacking at the News of the World. She was then plunged into a nightmare after she was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice by helping to remove seven boxes marked as belonging to Brooks from an archive at the publisher’s HQ. It emerged during Carter’s testimony that the boxes had contained cuttings of her beauty column and Carter had archived them during an office move. She was subsequently acquitted of the single charge she faced. “We’re just happy to be getting on with our lives,” she said. Carter has also developed an energy drink after getting treated for hair loss caused by the stress of the trial. |