Brooks: I was repeatedly told allegations were false

FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks said yesterday that she was repeatedly told by the News of the World that allegations of phone hacking by the paper’s journalists were untrue.

She said it was only after she saw papers lodged in a civil damages case brought by actress Sienna Miller last year that she understood how serious the situation was.

“We had been told by people at News of the World at the time — they consistently denied any of these allegations in various internal investigations,” she said.