Hacking trial: 'Rebekah Brooks discussed hacking at PM's Chequers party' He said Mrs Brooks, a former editor of the News of the World (NotW) and The Sun, did not give any indication of whether she thought it was illegal or right or wrong. During the conversation, she also expressed doubts that Andy Coulson, also a former NotW editor and then Mr Cameron's director of communications, could remain in his job, given the fact the story "didn't seem to be going away." Mr Loehnis, a friend of Mr Cameron's from Eton, said: "She said that she wasn't sure that he (Coulson) could survive." The court heard that Mr Loehnis was contacted by police when they found a handwritten letter he had sent to Mrs Brooks following her resignation as chief executive at News International in July 2011, in which he expressed his sympathy for her situation. Jonathan Laidlaw QC, defending Mrs Brooks, claimed the "two minute" conversation between his client and Mr Loehnis was not at admission that she had been involved in phone hacking but was simply a discussion of what was a topical subject at the time. Mr Loehnis agreed. Mr Laidlaw told jurors Mrs Brooks was "relaxed" during the dinner for 60 of Mr Cameron's family and closest friends. Mr Loehnis said the exchange lasted a couple of minutes, and agreed he was also preparing to read an ode in tribute to Mr Cameron during the dinner. The court was also shown a copy of an email sent from News International lawyer Tom Crone to then NotW editor Coulson in 2006, in the wake of the allegations against Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator used by the newspaper, and Clive Goodman, a reporter. The email discloses what police allegedly told Mrs Brooks, who relayed the information to Mr Crone. It includes a perception of what the investigation would mean for the newspaper. Mr Crone wrote: "They suggest that they were not widening the case to include other NotW people but would do so if they got direct evidence, say NotW journos directly accessing the voicemails (this is what did for Clive)." Mrs Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire; Mr Coulson, 45, from Charing, Kent; Ian Edmondson, 44, from Raynes Park, south west London; and Stuart Kuttner, 73, from Woodford Green, Essex, all deny conspiring with others to hack phones between October 3, 2000, and August 9, 2006.