From humble pie to custard pie: Wendi to the rescue after Rupert tells MPs how sorry he is but doesn't feel responsible for anything

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Attack: A protester, named as Jonnie Marbles, aims a shaving foam pie at Rupert Murdoch as he gives evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport committee

Leaping to his defence: Wendi Deng (in pink jacket) aims a right slap at the protester as he is attacked

Arrested: A policeman photographs Jonnie Marbles outside the Committee room shortly after the incident

 

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PIE-THROWER A LEFTIE ACTIVIST


The pie-thrower who attacked Rupert Murdoch is a renowned activist who is one of the founding members of a left-wing protest group.

Comedian Jonnie Marbles, real name Jonathan May-Bowles, pictured, has been involved in protests in the past, it has been claimed.

Moments before he carried out the attack he wrote on Twitter: ‘It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat’.

The 26-year-old, from Croydon, south London, had been tweeting live updates from inside the hearing on an iPhone.

He is allegedly involved with UK Uncut – a protest group who have targeted Barclays, Topshop and Vodafone for alleged tax avoidance with a series of sit-ins.

After the security breach, the Met Police will face difficult questions about how a high-profile activist managed to get in to the Select Committee hearing.

Eyewitnesses said a member of the audience sitting at the back of the room stood up and walked around to the front where Mr Murdoch was giving evidence and threw what appeared to be a paper plate covered in shaving foam at him.

Minutes after the protest he had apparently been ditched by his unimpressed girlfriend, Twitter user pageantmalarkey, who wrote: 'Not funny. Not clever. Not your girlfriend.'

Marbles had been tweeting throughout the hearing that he thought Rupert Murdoch had been giving limited answers to some questions.

Hours before the hearing he had written: ‘Last night I had a dream that I was wrapped up in an epic battle between all that is right and good and the forces of darkness.’

 

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Responsibility: Comedian Jonnie Marbles launched the attack

 

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U.S. Justice Department launches investigation into the extent of News Corp phone hacking and bribes

• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans U.S.-based corporations from paying bribes to overseas officials
  
• Violation would be a first for any media company
• FBI investigating whether Murdoch journalists hacked into phones of 9/11 victims and their families

 

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Rebekah Brooks appears before MPs investigating the phone-hacking scandal at News International



Former chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks last night admitted the News of the World did use private detectives when she was editor of the newspaper.

And astonishingly, despite an ongoing investigation into the hacking scandal at News International, she claimed to have only found out that murdered Milly Dowler had her phone hacked a fortnight after reading it in the press.

Under the scrutiny of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, she said that she had not been directly responsible for signing off the payments to private investigators, claiming their finances would have been handled by the managing editor’s office.

 

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Rebekah Brooks was accompanied by her lawyer when she gave evidence. The room had been cleared of the public after the earlier attack on Rupert Murdoch