Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home

[kpete]

Source: Guardian UK

Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home
Former NI chief executive's husband denies bag
– containing computer, paperwork and phone – belonged to his wife
.............
guardian.co.uk, Monday 18 July 2011 20.54 BST


Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.

The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon.

The car park, under a shopping centre, is yards from the gated apartment block where Brooks lives with her husband, a former racehorse trainer and close friend of the prime minister David Cameron.

It is understood the bag was handed into security at around 3pm and that shortly afterwards, Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/mystery-bag-bin-rebekah-brooks

[Maccagirl]

1. Hmmm

Tampering with evidence along with everything else?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. This just gets better by the hour. n/t

[Kingofalldems]

3. Sing Rebekah sing

[Poll_Blind]

8. Oh yes, this is what I hope. I have every reason to believe that bag is the Sword of Damocles....

...a-swinging over her purdy little head. Covering for Murdoch isn't going to pan out well for her: She just flip him like a wrinkly pancake.

PB

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Curious, indeed.

Police are now examining CCTV footage taken in the car park to uncover who dropped the bag.

<snip>

David Wilson, Charlie Brooks's official spokesman, told the Guardian that Charlie Brooks denies that the bag belonged to his wife. "Charlie has a bag which contains a laptop and papers which were private to him," said Wilson.
"They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the case."

Wilson said Charlie Brooks had left the bag with a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the garage. When asked how the bag ended up in a bin he replied: "The suggestion is that a cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin." Wilson added: "Charlie was looking for it together with a couple of the building staff

[arikara]

10. Oh, I'm sure a cleaner is going to just toss a bag

containing a laptop and papers into the garbage bin.

And a whistleblowing journalist conveniently dies... but it isn't suspicious at all.

[Merlot]

11. reminds me of deep throat - clandestine meetings in garages

"a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the garage."

Really, if your friend had your bag containing your laptop and papers, would they just drop it in a garage?

Only if they couldn't be seen meeting you...

[glinda]

5. Can you even trust the police?

[Turborama]

12. Very good question. Chelsea is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, too. n/t

[tblue]

6. Looks like they messed with the wrong gov't.

You can get away with this crap in the US. But not everywhere, it turns out. HAHAHAHA! This is like Christmas and my birthday all wrapped into one!

[aquart]

7. Makes me quite forget what's happening to Social Security.

[KittyWampus]

14. Well, apparently they DID get away with it in England for many years.

[harun]

15. They'll continue to get away with it in the U.S.A. for as long as they want.

[flamingdem]

9. bin-gate... who else would toss their crap into a bin?

A very nervous exec.... but why deny it when they can easily see who owned the computer and phone?

Very curious.

[TacticalPeek]

13. "They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the case."

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. LOL!

[Kingofalldems]

17. Kick again