Duncan Larcombe arriving at Westminster Magistrates Court in central London.
A Sun journalist vowed to clear his name after appearing in court accused of bribing two public officials.
Senior royal correspondent Duncan Larcombe, 37, said in a statement read by his solicitor James MacWhirter: “For the past year I have had to remain silent, but my aim now is to fight these allegations with every breath in my body.”
l A bodyguard for former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks also appeared in court accused of conspiring to hide computers and other items from police investigating phone hacking and corrupt payments to public officials.
David Johnson, 47, is charged with conspiring with others to pervert the course of justice between July 15 and 19 2011, by hiding computers and other items from Scotland Yard.
