Rebekah Brooks: I feel vindicated

Rebekah Brooks, speaking for the first time since she was cleared of phone hacking charges this week, has declared: “I am innocent of the crimes that I was charged with and I feel vindicated by the unanimous verdicts.”

Flanked by her husband Charlie and surrounded by a media scrum outside their London home, she said the last three years had been “tough” for her and her husband and those close to them.