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 kept it unexamined in trash bags at Scotland Yard. On 24 July 2012, charges were brought against eight former employees or agents of "News of the World" including head editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. All eight were charged regarding illegal interception of communications relating to specific individuals After Jonathan Rees was released from prison in 2005, he resumed private investigative work for "News of the World", then under the leadership of Andy Coulson. Documents seized as part of the ongoing investigation of Rees for the murder of Daniel Morgan included "a seven-page fax, dated 5 July 2006, that contained