Rebekah Brooks ‘took concerning interest’ in Tom Watson, court documents claim

Exclusive: Sun reporter also wrote that former MP must die', according to claims in newly disclosed document

Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's UK company, took a deeply concerning interest" in the phone-hacking campaigner Tom Watson while one of her journalists wrote that he must die", according to claims in a newly disclosed court document.

Referring to a potential place for Watson on a parliamentary committee looking into unlawful behaviour, Brooks allegedly told Will Lewis, the then general manager of News Group Newspapers (NGN) - who is now the chief executive and publisher of the Washington Post - in June 2011 to pass on a message that the company would go for broke if watson on - and downing street need to be warned".