particularly like i said i was then editor of the sun, and i can say absolutely that the sun is a very clean ship a great newsroom, and in particular the operation motor man referred to the news of the world. thank you. miss brooks, rupert murdoch in his evidence session said the responsibility for the closure of news of the world laid fairly and square leon the management of the newspaper, which would include you. is that the case? i think i may have missed that part of the evidence. i think mr. murdoch said is exactly how it was. it was a collective decision. we all talked together, and mr. murdoch was in with the board at the time, a conference
a? email, letter i would have had contact. email? just a conversation? it was mainly to do with work, and by email or by telephone. just of couple of final questions. why were you paying andy coulson s legal fees and glen mulcaire s legal fees during the sheraton case? as i understand it i know james murdoch could address this. when andy coulson left the news of the world he had an agreement that all matters relating to this. his legal fees, were paid. and i think the same for clive good man. on glen mulcaire his legal fees would be paid when he was a codefendant in the civil cases. are you aware of any payment
when he said himself after a case that the police were very impressed about the type of intelligence i was coming up with that was revealed in court and the judge said it was a substantial volume of information that was extremely useful to the police. it says sources people right at top of new news international we aware of his role with the police. i was not aware nerks velle was a police informant. that comes as a shock to you? you are telling me now. i m not even sure what it mean particularly. if you are asking me about the do members of the press and members of the police force have a symbiotic relationship of exchanging if for public interest they do. i m not quite sure what the word police informant means. the allegation is that he passed a substantial volume of
a question to you, james murdoch, during the course of last year you gave evidence under oath on two occasions that email was relating to a case. [unintelligible] trying to protect the surveillance phone hacking could not be retrieved bass they were lost in some black hole in mumbai. that is not the case. i think actually what he was referring to initially what we d had with our suppliers and i think i m correct in thinking the information, commissioner had actually put out a clarification and explained that there were no issues and that they were entirely comfortable with international s response to that. do you know who gave them that information that the emails
were lost. i don t know. [intelligible ] sorry? the emails have since been retrieved. the defense team still hasn t received them. any ideas why? i think actually the clarification from the information commissioner was in fact that what had happened was as the editor of the scottish news of the world had made a comment during the trial which had been interpreted as you are saying now, but actually when he looked into it and asked news international for an explanation it was actually a problem with the with our suppliers in india, and so there was no such retrieval. have you been in contact with andy coulson during the sheraton case? i think andy was andy coulson was in downing street during the sheraton case so i would have had. did you have direct contact