Rebekah Brooks and husband arrested

Today Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. This is the second time that Ms Brooks has been arrested as a result of the fallout of the hacking crisis at NOTW. Last time she was arrested on suspicion of intercepting voicemails but was never charged, this current arrest is for a far more serious crime. Perverting the course of justice is one of the most serious crimes in our legal system as it totally undermines the idea of bringing criminals to justice.

These arrests come the week that David Cameron finally admitted to riding a horse that belonged to the Met but was loaned to the Brooks.  Charlie Brooks is an old school friend of Cameron and this makes things extremely difficult for Cameron, he has been shown time and time again to have personal links to some of the biggest names in the NOTW hacking scandal and subsequent press enquiry.

This year is going to be as bad as 2011 for News International and its former employees, as the company lurches from crisis to crisis. It will surely mark the end of Murdoch’s dominance of British politics and the new political scene in 2013 and beyond will be unrecognisable when compared to the end of 2010.  If the enquiry is handled correctly and the police investigations carried out in the right manner then we may end up with a great press at the end… Somehow I don’t see us getting a free press at the end of this though; the press will still be controlled by a handful of wealthy, powerful men. The only way a press can be described as free is if it is controlled by as many people is possible.