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British police charge former News of the World editor with hacking

Reported by Raw Story on Thursday, 2 August 2012 (on August 2, 2012)
Raw Story
LONDON — British police on Thursday formally charged former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with phone hacking in a long-running press scandal which has struck at the heart of the country’s institutions. Police last week charged Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson and six other current or former employees of Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World tabloid with hacking, adding they would charge Brooks at a later date. Brooks on Thursday appeared [...]

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