British police investigating phone hacking have re-arrested Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of the News of the World tabloid and one-time aide to media mogul Rupert Murdoch, reports said Tuesday.
The 43-year-old and her husband were among six people held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice following dawn raids by officers investigating hacking at the now-closed newspaper, several media reports said. Brooks was arrested for the first time last July on suspicion of phone hacking and bribing public officials, just three days after she resigned as head of the News of the World’s publisher, Murdoch’s News International.
She has always denied any wrongdoing.
Police confirmed the arrests of a 43-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man, both from Oxfordshire, west of London, adding that they were being questioned at separate police stations. Brooks lives in Oxfordshire with her racehorse trainer husband Charlie Brooks, a close friend of Prime Minister David Cameron.
