Rebekah Brooks and her husband have been arrested this morning

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/13/rebekah-brooks-arrested-phone-hacking-investigation
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Rebekah Brooks is among six people arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, as part of the investigation into phone hacking.

The former News International chief executive was arrested at her home in Oxfordshire by detectives from Operation Weeting. Sources also said that her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, was arrested.

The Metropolitan police refused to confirm the names of those arrested, but said that a 43-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man had been held. News International and the lawyer for Brooks declined to comment on the reports.

This morning's arrests took place between 5am and 7am at addresses in London, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.
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Murdoch is going down!!!!

[HopeHoops]

1. It's a fair bet the police didn't interrupt anything at THEIR home.

[HughBeaumont]

2. The only place Murdoch is going is the grave in a few years.

Neither he nor his son will see minute ONE inside a jail cell. Incarceration is for the underlings, and I'm calling "slim" on that chance.

[CanonRay]

14. +1000

No way he's going down, especially not here in the U.S.

[madokie]

3. Murdock going down

limbaugh going down
Am I in a Dream?
The two biggest reasons why our country is in the shape it is in today is due to the lies spouted by these two entities

[malaise]

5. One is great - two would be

orgasmic!!
Maybe people do wake up to the stench of right wing propaganda after all. After 30 years their lies have been completely exposed and facts have torn their bogus paradigm to shreds.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Murdoch IS gonig down.

Brooks will offer to tell all in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

[malaise]

6. I'm wondering if that wasn't James' role

Did he throw it all at Bekah and head for the US?

[malaise]

8. She could sink Cameron as well

[truebrit71]

9. What an awesome twofer that would be....

...I suspect Satan is sitting a good deal less comfortably this morning knowing that his right-hand gal is in the clink...and 'Just call me Dave' I suspect will be busy burning as many bridges as he can find....disgusting little Etonian turd that he is..

[malaise]

11. I'm lovin' it

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Is there any comment yet from her brother Cecil?

[midnight]

10. This second arrest of Rebecca is "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"

These are "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice". From Wiki:

Perverting the course of justice can be any of three acts:
Fabricating or disposing of evidence
Intimidating or threatening a witness or juror
Intimidating or threatening a judge

The maximum sentence if convicted is life imprisonment.
Also worth noting is this snippet:


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/13/1073910/-Your-Morning-News-Corp-Schadenfreude-Fix-More-Arrests

[malaise]

12. Remember that ditched bag with the computer in the garbage dump at a parking lot?

I wonder????

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Charlie Brooks tried to claim a computer belonged to him, in 2011

Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home

Former NI chief executive's husband denies bag – containing computer, paperwork and phone – belonged to his wife

Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.

The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon.
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It is understood the bag was handed in to security at around 3pm, and that shortly afterwards Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.
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David Wilson, Charlie Brooks's official spokesman, told the Guardian that Charlie Brooks denies that the bag belonged to his wife. "Charlie has a bag which contains a laptop and papers which were private to him," said Wilson.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/mystery-bag-bin-rebekah-brooks

Which is likely why he's involved in this, I think.

[malaise]

15. Ding ding we have a winner n/t