Rebekah Brooks released on bail until October 2011. On 13 March 2012, Brooks was rearrested, together with her husband, on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Ninety people have been arrested in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information since police renewed investigations in 2011, many of them employees or agents of newspapers for which Brooks had responsibilities. Sixteen have been formally charged with crimes. On 15 May 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged Brooks and five others with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Charged along with Brooks regarding removal of documents and computers to conceal
The Sun (United Kingdom) January 2012, two current and two former employees were arrested. As of 18 January 2013, 22 "Sun" journalists had been arrested, including their crime reporter Anthony France. On 28 January 2012, police arrested four current and former staff members of "The Sun", as part of a probe in which journalists paid police officers for information; a police officer was also arrested in the probe. The "Sun" staffers arrested were crime editor Mike Sullivan, head of news Chris Pharo, former deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, and former managing editor Graham Dudman, who since became a columnist and media writer. All five arrested