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

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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
Amelia Hill
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 David Cameron.

It is understood the bag was handed in to 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...

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

[wtmusic]

1. Screw Harry Potter

Summertime entertainment doesn't get better than this.

[eShirl]

2. Why does the explanation make me more suspicious?

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."

[K8-EEE]

3. I know right? Like a cleaner would dump a computer?

Instead of turn it in, or steal it? Or a cleaner would dump a back of nice stuff in the trash just assuming it was garbage, without looking in it.

[malaise]

8. It's fall down funny

Poor Charlie read too many Agatha Christie novels - it's always the maid/butler/cleaner :evilgrin:

[Ghost Dog]

9. And what's more, his name's Charlie. A proper Charlie

ha ha ha.

(Although, of course, 'spouses' should be presumed ignorant, innocent, etc. (especially when they're female)).

[K8-EEE]

11. To make it more Agatha-esque --- he is a "former race horse trainer.' nt

[Raine]

5. These types always blame the cleaner

like someone who cleans homes or offices is so stupid they would throw out a bag with a computer. :eyes:

[aquart]

4. After her arrest, hubby dumps stuff in panic, then realizes he made it worse?

[Octafish]

13. Professional Rubbish Removal

Conveniently planted where somebody in a trench coat can find it.

[Rex]

6. So I wonder who they are trying to frame?

That stupid? Maybe...maybe not.

[Kennah]

7. Not really

If this is a pattern which has persisted for years, and just now the light of day is making GOP cockroaches run, it's easy to think these little "jobs" would be in disarray and not well planned.

[Ghost Dog]

10. The 'disarray' appears to be palpable.

I don't think we're dealing with 'covert intelligence professionals' here.

Pride comes before a fall.

[Octafish]

12. Set-Up Time

Rupert's MI5's firewall team at work, planting things for the coppers to root.

The whole bloody lot of slavemaster neocon neo-feudalist sonsofbitches are getting worried.

[Ghost Dog]

14. Also not impossible.

We'll soon see, in that case, I guess.