Horsing around, day 2. Charlie Brooks, husband of former News International chief executive Rebekah, has jumped to her defence after Scotland Yard issued a statement late on Tuesday accusing the ex tabloid editor of returning horse Raisa to them "in a poor but not serious condition" in 2010. "I have been around and looked after horses all my life and I am confident that I know more about caring for them than people at the Metropolitan police," Brooks harrumphed, according to the London Evening Standard, which broke the "Met loaned Brooks a horse" story on Tuesday, prompting a stable of Godfather horse's head and other equine-related gags on Twitter. Rupert Murdoch has also mounted his trusty steed to defend the damsel in distress, tweeting: "Now they are complaining about R Brooks saving an old horse from the glue factory!" Given that Raisa, who was rehoused with a police officer after Brooks returned her, later died of natural causes, Monkey will resist the urge to insert a flogging-a-dead-horse payoff here.
