Tags: Rebekah Brooks

In his closing speech today at the trial of former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks, attorney Jonathan Laidlaw accused the media of sabotaging his client's chances of obtaining a fair trial, Bloomberg reported.

On his sixth day of testimony, Bloomberg said former News of the World editor Andy Coulson expressed his regrets at publishing the affair of a British politician when he himself is involved in one with former head of the British unit of News Corp Rebekah Brooks.

Andy Coulson, who was in charge of the tabloid News of the World the week when it ran a story on the messages of a murdered schoolgirl, told the court today that he does not have expert knowledge about phone hacking nor was aware that the messages were retrieved via the illegal and unethical method, Bloomberg said.