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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 in July. | |
Edmondson was excused from the trial due in December last year because of ill health. | |
A hearing in July established that he was fit to continue. | |
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. |