Two NOTW ex-editors charged in phone hack case

July 30, 2014 06:51 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:33 am IST - London

Two former editors at Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct tabloid News of the World were on Wednesday charged with conspiracy to hack phones.

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged the two — former deputy editor Neil Wallis and former features editor Jules Stenson — following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police, dubbed Operation Pinetree, which was an offshoot of the initial phone hacking inquiry.

The two are accused of conspiring to listen to voicemails between January 2003 and January 2007.

Both will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on August 21.

Gregor McGill from the CPS, said it had been decided there was “sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest”.

He said the CPS had authorised Scotland Yard, which is leading the operation, to charge the pair.

Six other journalists, who were also held as part of the inquiry have already been told they will face no further action.

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