News Limited denies claim scandal hit exec Rebekah Brooks ‘may move to Oz’
Rebekah Brooks, one of the News Corp executives at the centre of the News Of The World voicemail hacking scandal, may be moved to Australia, it is being reported today.
However, News Limited told Mumbrella: “It’s not true.”
The claim comes from the British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
In a report on British Prime Minister David Cameron’s response to the scandal, the paper says: “He also said that Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive should quit, a departure now widely expected next week following her questioning by a Commons committee. She might take over one of Mr Murdoch’s interests in Australia.”
Brooks is chief executive of News International, the British arm of News Corp. Prior to that she edited both of the company’s British tabloids The News Of The World and The Sun.
The News Of The World closed at the weekend after it emerged that thousands of mobile voicemails had been hacked including those of murder victims, politicians and celebrities.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Really? The best rumour they could come up with is “transported to the colonies”?
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Didn’t the poms stop sending their worst miscreants to the colonies some time ago?
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I’d say she is shopping for an Akubra already then!
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IRA supergrasses, James Bolger’s killers, and now her.
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I’d punt some money on Australia being News’ only market at the current rate.
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