Journalist and former newspaper editor. CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously been the youngest editor of a British national newspaper (at the News of the World from 2000 to 2003) and the first female editor of The Sun (from 2003 to 2009). Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone-hacking scandal, having been editor of the News of the World when illegal phone-hacking was carried out. Following a criminal trial in 2014, she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence that she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out at the newspaper she edited.
This is the exhibit marked 'RMB1' referred to in the witness statement of Rebekah Mary Brooks dated 2 May 2012.
This is the exhibit marked 'RMB2' referred to in the witness statement of Rebekah Mary Brooks dated 2 May 2012.
