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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. [...] It is understood the bag was handed into 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. [...] Wilson said Charlie Brooks had left the bag with a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the garage. When asked how the bag ended up in a bin he replied: "The suggestion is that a cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin."

This. Is. Hilarious.

Now, I don't know if anything will come of this or not. I just love the incredible story. Your wife has just been arrested in a case involving, among other things, covering up evidence. And a computer, phone and "paperwork" from your house just happens to get thrown into the trash soon afterward.

So the excuse is, some cleaning person saw your computer, phone and papers, and they just happened to be in a bag (no further definition on what the word "bag" means, in this context), because that's how you always move your computer, phone and papers around ... and so the cleaning person mistook it for trash and threw it away. Oops!

Oh—and into someone else's garbage. You know, not your bin, but a bin belonging to a nearby shopping center.

Yeah. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Police are looking at security footage to see who dropped the computer off: no word yet on what they found. Maybe her husband's story will turn out to be true; maybe it won't. All I know is that this is either one of the more unfortunate coincidences in recent police history, or a crime-and-punishment Darwin award in the making.

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