The press is accusing former News International/News Corp employee, Rebekah Brooks, of destroying evidence in the ongoing phone hacking criminal case. A security guard called the police when Brooks' husband tried to retrieve a garbage bag with a mobile phone, computer and sensitive documents belonging to the family, which had been dumped in the garage of a shopping center, outside their apartment building in Chelsea (London).

It is to be expected that the suspects in the case are being wiretapped and followed by the police, with all their personal and business data investigated for clues to criminal activity. See, it's not so much fun when the shoe is on the other foot and people are prying into your lives, now is it.

Monday 18 July 2011 20.54 BST - Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International. The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon... 

It is understood the bag was handed in to security at around 3pm, and that shortly afterwards Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it. Instead, it is understood that the security guard called the police. In less than half an hour, two marked police cars and an unmarked forensics car are said to have arrived at the scene.