Rebekah Brooks says she knew nothing about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone. "This act is abhorrent," she told the court. Read on to find out more.
In an interview, she told the police that she had never met Glenn Mulcaire, who worked for the paper.
During the interview, she was shown an article supposedly linked to the phone hacking. Brooks said the article was published on 14 April 2002, and that she was on holiday on that date.
She told the police that she became aware of phone hacking when it was used to obtain stories for the paper in 2006. The newspaper's former royal editor and Mulcaire were jailed for cell phone hacking offences in 2007.
Brooks told the police that she was not ready to answer their questions, since she had been ordered to leave her office within fifteen minutes of resigning in 2011.
The police searched and then sealed her office. They took her computer, laptop and iPad into custody. Her email account was also disabled, and she was forced to leave behind her files and records.