The trial of Rebekah Brooks, who ran Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, was shown film footage of her husband involved in what prosecutors say was a botched plan to hide evidence from police investigating allegations of phone-hacking.

Former England football manager Sven Goran-Eriksson had his voicemails repeatedly hacked by the News of the World, a trial in London heard yesterday.

A senior British counter-terrorism police officer was found guilty of misconduct in public office over a call to the News of the World to discuss an investigation into phone-hacking by its reporters.