UK: Phone-hacking police charge Rebekah Brooks

Former News International Chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been  charged with perverting the course of justice, as part of the. Brooks has been charged along with several others, including her husband Charlie, and four former members of News International staff, in relation to the destruction of evidence and concealing documents and computers from police. In a statement Brooks, who faces three charges, declared the decision “weak and unjust”.