Rebekah Brooks's former personal assistant has been forced to abandon plans to relocate to News Corp's Australian outfit.
Cheryl Carter had been hoping to start work as an editorial assistant in Perth last month.
A spokesman for Rupert Murdoch's Australian-based company, News Limited, said she was interviewed for the post but "before a formal job offer was made, Ms Carter was arrested and so the process went no further."
Carter, 47, was detained early last month as part of the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking.
She spent 19 years working closely with Brooks, the former News International chief executive.
It is understood Carter has family in Perth and had long hoped to migrate to the city. According to an Independent story, police have confiscated Carter's passport.
Source: The Australian
