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Brooks received £10.8m pay-off

REBEKAH Brooks was paid £10.8m after she resigned as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone hacking scandal, it has emerged.

But the former editor of The Sun and the News of the World, who quit in July 2011, could be forced to repay millions if she is convicted of criminal charges relating to her time at the company.

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