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
Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal July 2011, Cook and his wife were believed to be preparing a legal action against the "News of the World", Marunchak, Miskiw and Mulcaire. Marunchak was also identified by BBC as the "News of the World" executive who had arranged for someone to plant a Trojan on the computer of a former British intelligence NCO, Ian Hurst. In 2000, Rees was sentenced to seven years in prison and served five. Upon release in 2005, he resumed his private investigative work for "News of the World", where Andy Coulson by that time had succeeded Rebekah Brooks as editor. Coulson has maintained