Rebekah Brooks has spoken of her "shock and horror" over the hacking of murdered schoogirl Milly Dowler's phone.
Giving evidence at the Old Bailey where she is standing trial for conspiring to hack telephones, Brooks claimed she knew nothing about an alleged request for phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to access the voicemails.
The former News of the World editor told the court she only became aware Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked on July 4, 2011 and her reaction was one of "shock, horror, everything".
"Just to put my reaction into any form of context," she said.
"I was told that the News of the World had asked someone to access Milly Dowler's phone while she was missing, that they had also deleted her voicemails and for a period of time because of that her parents had been given false hope and thought she was alive," she said.
"I just think anyone would think that that was pretty abhorrent, so my reaction was that. That was what I was told.
"Nobody did delete voicemails and certain parts of the police knew voicemails had been accessed," she added.
Brooks was editor of the paper between 2000 and 2003 Brooks also claimed she was unaware of a contract worth £92,000 between the News of the World and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire while she was editor and it was never drawn to her attention.
Her barrister Jonathan Laidlaw QC told the court the contract was between the now-defunct Sunday newspaper and Mulcaire's company Euro Research and Information Ltd.
The agreement which began in September 2001 consisted of weekly payments of £1,769 over a 12-month period, totalling some £92,000.
Brooks was asked if she had set eyes on the contract during that period, to which she replied "no".
Brooks denied any knowledge of Milly Dowler's phone being hacked When asked if she had ever heard of Mulcaire's company, the former News International chief executive replied: "Their names did not ring a bell with me when I heard about them in 2006.
"Of course we used a lot of private detectives at the paper so it would not necessarily ring a bell."
The 45-year-old, from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, denies conspiring to hack telephones, conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, and conspiring to cover up evidence to pervert the course of justice.
Wearing a dark top as she entered the witness box she said any payments over £50,000 would have required permission from the newspaper's then-managing editor Stuart Kuttner.
Mr Laidlaw asked: "In ordinary circumstances would a payment of this sort come to your attention?"
"It depends," she replied, adding: "As long as it was within the spending limit, my visibility would have been pretty low."
Brooks added that other departments used private detectives more often than she did during her time as features editor.
"Obviously at News of the World it was known they were used for all sorts of different things," she said.
"In the late mid-90s to 2003/04 there was lots of use of private detectives across Fleet Street … it was commonplace."
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