Breaking: Husband Of 'News Of The World' Chief Caught Dumping Computer

The UK's Guardian newspaper is reporting that Charlie Brooks, husband of News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, was caught trying to reclaim a computer, cell phone and documents that were discarded in a shopping mall parking lot near their London home.  This was moments after a passerby discovered the lot and alerted area security.  Brooks was unable to prove that the bag containing the items belonged to him, and was refused to take it back.

He's claiming that the "trash" is his property and is not his wife's, who was arrested and questioned yesterday on corruption charges in connection with the News of the World hacking scandal.

Brooks' spokesman, David Wilson, says that he left the bag with a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the underground garage, and that "a cleaning lady" must have put it in the trash.  Forensics experts with Scotland Yard currently have possession of the bag, and are reviewing CCTV feeds to determine who left it.

Point of advice:  If you're going to ditch evidence of a laundry list of crimes that your wife is guilty of, on the day that she is arrested on corruption charges, and the day before she's scheduled to meet with Parliament to discuss her role in the scandal, go to a trash can that isn't across the street from your house.  Reports say that the bag was found yards away from their house.  Really?!  He couldn't drive to the other side of town and drop it in a dumpster somewhere?