Today (15/5/12) Britain's war against the free press entered a sinister new phase. Former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes along with her husband, her personal assistant, her driver and two members of her security staff have been charged with three counts of perverting the course of justice. Specifically the charges relate to one count of concealing documents, one count of removing/destroying documents and one count of giving false testimony to the police. Upon conviction the maximum sentence for these offences are life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
I think the only thing we can say for certain at this point is that Mrs Patricia Hodge won't be presiding over the trial. In fact it might be worth the accused running a defence that Britain has no criminal justice system to be perverted therefore the offence could not have occurred. After all there seems little point trying to deal down on a witch-hunt.
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