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Ex-NoW news editor Ian Edmondson admits phone hacking 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.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.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.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.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. 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 in July.
A hearing in July established that Edmondson was fit to continue. Edmondson was excused from the trial due in December last year because of ill health.
He has now admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006. A hearing in July established that he was fit to continue.
During the phone-hacking trial, it emerged Edmondson had also hacked the voicemails of Coulson and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks. Edmondson has now admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006.
'Do his phone'
Edmondson had worked at the News of the World in the 1990s and rejoined in 2004, being promoted to news editor a year later.
Phone hacking then increased to what has been described as an "industrial scale".
In 2010 he was suspended when emails emerged implicating him in phone hacking, and he was sacked in 2011.
The court has heard Edmondson tasked Mulcaire with hacking some 344 times.
In 2006, Edmondson received received an email from Coulson which read "do his phone" - evidence of an attempt to hack the phone of celebrity Calum Best, the hacking trial heard.
It also emerged during the trial that Edmondson had hacked the voicemails of Coulson and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.