FILM footage of former News International executive Rebekah Brooks's husband going into and leaving an underground car park with a Jiffy bag and a laptop at the height of the phone hacking scandal have been shown to a jury.
The CCTV images of Charles Brooks were played at the trial at the Old Bailey, London, where he is accused, along with Mrs Brooks, the company's former chief executive, of perverting the course of justice.
Mr Brooks is seen leaving their home in London, shortly after Mrs Brooks was arrested. Jurors saw the tape show him enter and leave the car park with the computer and package. Within a minute, the court saw, he returns to the building empty handed.
The trial had earlier heard of an email in which Mrs Brooks asked for her co-defendant and News International's (NI) former security chief Mark Hanna to discreetly sweep her office for bugs.
It took place in January 2011, months before the closure of the News Of The World over the phone hacking scandal and her resignation as chief executive of NI.
It read: "Can you have my office swept ... thanks. Discreetly."
Jane Viner, NI group director for property and facilities, confirmed, the NI offices were routinely searched for listening devices to ensure rival journalists could not find out about scoops and to keep private any discussions about the BSkyB bid.
Brooks had been sent "threatening mail" during 2011 as hacking allegations emerged, she also told the trial.
Abusive mail was usually intercepted in the post room and, if it got through the first check, it would be picked up by personal assistants, she said.
Brooks, 45, and Hanna deny a charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Mr Brooks' Cheryl Carter, Mrs Brooks' personal assistant; Stuart Kuttner, former News of the World managing editor; Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor; and ex-editor Andy Coulson deny all the charges.
The trial continues.
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