Rebekah Brooks ‘discussed’ giving PR guru £200k

Rebekah Brooks discussed paying £200,000 (€241,000) a year to PR guru Max Clifford to back out of a civil case, the hacking trial was told.

The disclosure emerged in notes from a meeting of senior executives of News International in January 2010 which were read to the court by prosecutor Andrew Edis QC.

Brooks reported that she had got Mr Clifford to agree £200,000 per annum to “represent the Sun/do business with the Sun” and if that was put in writing, he would call off his lawyers, the Old Bailey heard.