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By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News Corp.'s British newspaper arm, said on Thursday she felt vindicated after being found not guilty this week of hacking phone messages and other crimes while editing Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. Brooks, 46, was speaking for the first time since she was cleared on Tuesday by a jury at London's Old Bailey court of charges relating to phone-hacking, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice. I've learnt some valuable lessons and hopefully I'm the wiser for it," she told a large scrum of reporters outside the plush townhouse in central London where she has been staying during the eight-month trial. Prosecutors had alleged that Brooks was complicit in the widespread hacking of voicemails on mobile phones carried out by journalists working for the now defunct News of the World, a Sunday tabloid and Britain's then biggest-selling paper which she edited from 2000 to 2003.More...