New Delhi: The hearing in the UK phone hacking scandal will begin on Monday. Disgraced former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is expected to appear in a London court.
Brooks faces three phone-hacking charges, including allegedly intercepting messages of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old schoolgirl who was abducted and murdered in 2002. Brooks is a close aide of media baron Rupert Murdoch.
The others charged, including Prime Minister David Cameron's former aide Andy Coulson, will appear in court on August 16, the BBC reported. Coulson was communications chief under Cameron.
The other former NoW staff who have been formally charged are ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former head of news Ian Edmondson, ex-chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and former reporter James Weatherup. Brooks, insisted she was innocent in a statement issued when the Crown Prosecution Service announced it was bringing charges.
"The charge concerning Milly Dowler is particularly upsetting, not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime. I will vigorously defend these allegations," Brooks said.
With additional information from PTI
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