Phone-hacking Trial - Day 4

Mr Andrew Edis QC, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson (Image from Daily Mail)

 From Independent report:

Addressing the nine men and three women on the jury, Mr Edis told them that among their tasks was to decide: “If there was phone hacking – who knew?” Mr Edis said they needed to consider whether Mrs Brooks and Mr Coulson, the editors of the NOTW from 2000 to 2006 when phone-hacking took place, must have known how stories on their papers were being obtained.

Overnight links to media reports as to what was said in court yesterday:

• Phone-hacking: Court Told of Tabloids' 'Decade of Deceit' - Telegraph
• Brooks and Coulson 'Must have Known About Hacking' - BBC News
• News of the World's Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson 'Knew About Phone-hacking' - Mail Online
• Phone-hacking Trial Day 3 - David Banks Media Law Consultancy
• Murdoch's News of the World Editors Admit to Phone-hacking - The Daily Beast
• Phone-hacking Trial Day Three: Prosecution Opening Statement Begins - Part 1 - The Drum
• Phone-hacking Trial Day 3: Prosecution Opening Statement Begins - Part 2 - The Drum
• Four Admit to Phone-hacking Plots in Brooks and Coulson Eras - Nick Davies - Guardian

From Nick Davies' Report:

Some cautionary words to those following the live-tweets of the phone-hacking trial from an experienced lawyer:

Latest links to reporting of this morning's continued prosecution case statement:

• Prescott Aide's Phone 'Hacked by NoW in Hunt for Mistress' - Evening Standard
• News of the World Hacked Rivals as Part of the 'Dog Eat Dog' World of Journalism - Press Gazette
• Phone-hacking Trial: Jury Hears Tape of 'Attempt to Deceive Mobile Operator' - Guardian

From the Guardian report above:

 Edis continued: "It is the prosecution case [that] a contract like that involves senior management, in this case the editor, the deputy editor and the managing editor," in reference to three of the defendants on trial for an alleged conspiracy to hack phones – Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson (who was initially her deputy) and Stuart Kuttner respectively.

Glenn Mulcaire, subject of much of this morning's prosecution statement from Mr Edis QC (Guardian image)

•  Jury in Phone-hacking Trial Played Recording of Hacker Glenn Mulcaire 'Blagging' Voicemail PINs From Phone Company - The Drum 

 2:15 p.m.:

• Phone-hacking Trial Reveals Brooks-Coulson Affair - BBC News

• Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson Had Six-year Affair, Phone-hacking Trial Hears - HuffPo
• Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson Had Six-year Affair, Phone-hacking Jury Told - Guardian
• Brooks and Coulson In 'Secret Six-year Affair' - Sky News
• Coulson-Brooks Affair Assists Crown's Conspiracy Claim - Hacked Off
• Phone-hacking Trial, Day 4 - David Banks Media Law Consultancy
• Phone-hacking Trial Reveals 'Six-year Affair Between Rebekah Brooks and News of the World Successor Andy Coulson' - Independent
• News of the World Staff 'Hacked Mail on Sunday's Phones in Bid for Scoop' - Guardian
• Phone-hacking Trial: Jury Told of Mulcaire Emails - BBC News
• Phone-hacking Trial: Read Extract of Rebekah Brooks' Letter to Ex-lover Andy Coulson - Mirror Online
• Phone-hacking: Glenn Mulcaire Was Paid More Than £400 000 by NotW - Guardian
• Prosecutors Allege Affair Between Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson - The Daily Beast
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