Rebekah Brooks has claimed that she did not know that phone hacking was illegal when she was editor of News Of The World.
Former prime minister Tony Blair allegedly offered to become an unofficial advisor to Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks during the phone hacking scandal according to an email shown to the jury at the Old Bailey.
Piers Morgan was interviewed under caution by police over alleged phone hacking at the Mirror Group newspapers on December 6th
Former News of the World editor and Downing Street communications director, Andy Coulson, knew that the paper has obtained information about an affair between Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller illegally, the hacking trial at the Old Bailey has heard.
When Justice John Saunders opened what has been called the “trial of the century” he told the jury: “In a way, not only are the defendants on trial, but British justice is on trial.”