LONDON: Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of the former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks.

The Guardian has learnt 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.

Saga continues … Charlie Brooks denied the bag in question belonged to his wife, Rebekah. Credit:Olivia Harris

The car park, under a shopping centre, is metres from the gated apartment block where Ms Brooks lives with her husband, a former racehorse trainer and close friend of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

It is understood the bag was handed in to security at about 3pm and that shortly afterwards Ms Brooks' 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.