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| Ex-NoW news editor Ian Edmondson admits phone hacking | |
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| Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson has admitted plotting to hack phones while at the paper. | |
| Edmondson, 45, is the eighth person to be convicted of phone hacking at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid. | |
| He is likely to receive a custodial sentence after pleading guilty at the Old Bailey, the BBC understands. | |
| Edmondson illegally intercepted the voicemails of two home secretaries, Sir Paul McCartney and actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller. | |
| He had been in the dock at the start of the eight-month trial which ended with his former boss Andy Coulson being jailed for 18 months, but was excused due to ill health in December last year. | |
| A hearing in July established that Edmondson was fit to continue. | |
| He has now admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006. | |
| During the phone-hacking trial, it emerged Edmondson had also hacked the voicemails of Coulson and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks. |