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Tuesday 15 May 2012

No surprise as Rebekah Brooks and her husband are charged over phone hacking


Three of Mrs Brooks's staff, and News International security head Mark Hanna, are also charged with the offence.
Mr and Mrs Brooks accused the CPS of "unprecedented posturing" and said they would provide a further response later "after our return from the police station".
The Crown Prosecution Service performed two tests before charging Rebekah Brooks and others: Was the evidence good enough to have a realistic chance of a conviction - and would a prosecution be in the public interest?
Conspiring to pervert the course of justice is a serious crime. It has to be tried in the Crown Court before a jury and can, in theory, lead to a life sentence.
But in practice the sentencing range is huge because it comes down to the severity of the offence and the nature of any cover-up.
In one recent case, a defendant was jailed for three years for concealing evidence in a fatal accident.

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