Former News of the World editor tells Old Bailey she knew nothing about tasking of phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to access murdered schoolgirl's voicemails
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks arrives at the Old Bailey as the phone hacking trial continues
Rebekah Brooks had nothing to do with the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone and was left feeling “shock and horror” when she found out what had happened, she has told a court.
The former News of the World editor told the Old Bailey that she knew nothing about the tasking of phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to access Milly’s voicemails and only became aware of it on July 4, 2011.
Asked about her reaction when she found out, the 45-year-old said: “Shock, horror, everything.
“Just to put my reaction into any form of context, I was told that the NotW had asked someone to access Milly Dowler’s phone while she was missing, that they had also deleted her voicemails and for a period of time because of that her parents had been given false hope and thought she was alive.
“I just think anyone would think that that was pretty abhorrent, so my reaction was that. That was what I was told.”
As Brooks returned to the witness box for the third day, jurors were told that 13-year-old Milly was reported missing on March 21, 2002.
Her disappearance was covered by the now-defunct tabloid in the following weeks, and the court heard that it had emerged that Milly’s voicemails had been accessed between April 10 and 12 that year.
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