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According to MPs Rebekah Brooks refused three times to attend the committee again to be questioned further resulting in four committee members "considering asking the serjeant at arms to issue a warrant forcing Brooks to attend"; however they subsequently dropped this proposal because they believed their private lives would be investigated if they did so. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. Having previously had an offer of resignation rejected Brooks resigned from News International on 15 July 2011.

District Judge Howard Riddle told the defendants they would go on trial at a later date at Southwark Crown Court remanding Mrs Brooks and her husband on bail until the next hearing on 22 June. On 13 March 2012 Rebekah Brooks was again arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.