Classic movie Where Eagles Dare inspired Rebekah Brooks hacking trial cover-up

Dialogues from the classic war film 'Where Eagles Dare' were used in a cover-up to hide evidence on the day former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested.

Security guards texted references to the movie as they moved computers and bags of material around, the court heard.

According to the Metro, referring to Richard Burton's character, one wrote: 'Calling Danny Boy - pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot.'

'Ha, f****** amateurs. We should have done a DLB (dead letter box),' his colleague replied.

The trial heard Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks embarked on a 'complicated' operation to obstruct a police search operation of their properties.

The operation went wrong when a cleaner at their Chelsea home found a computer belonging to Charlie behind a bin in the car park and reported it to police, the report said.

According to the report, a security staff drove to the couple's Oxfordshire home the night before Brooks's arrest in July 2011, removed material, and took it to News of the World publisher News International's offices in Wapping, east London.