Ex-Murdoch aide, husband nabbed in hacking probe

of perverting the course of justice by officers probing the scandal at Murdoch’s now-closed tabloid, the News of the World. All six were released on bail later Tuesday, Scotland Yard announced.
Brooks resigned as chief executive of Murdoch’s British newspaper unit, News International, in July, ending a stellar career which saw her edit both the News of the World and its daily sister paper The Sun.
She quit just three days before being arrested for the first time on suspicion of the illegal hacking of mobile phone voicemails and bribing public officials. She has always denied any wrongdoing. News International confirmed to AFP that two current “non-editorial” staff had been arrested, identifying one of them as its head of security, Mark Hanna, but declining to name the other.
The company and Brooks’s spokesman David Wilson were both unable to confirm reports in the British media that Rebekah and Charlie Brooks were among those arrested. Brooks and her husband, a racehorse trainer, live in a wealthy area of rural Oxfordshire near Cameron, who has described Charlie Brooks as a “good friend” whom he has known since his schooldays at the elite Eton College.
The arrests will likely be embarrassing for the prime minister, who flew to Washington on Tuesday for talks with President Barack Obama. Cameron’s spokeswoman refused to comment, saying: “It’s an operational matter for police.”
Murdoch shut down the News of the World in July after evidence emerged of widespread phone hacking at the tabloid, but his British newspapers continue to be dogged by allegations they covered up the practice.
Rebekah Brooks has been dubbed Murdoch’s “fifth daughter” because of her closeness to the media mogul, for whom she has worked since she joined the News of the World when she was only 20 years old. — AFP.