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The former editor from News of the World Andy Coulson and its former royal editor Clive Goodman are to face a retrial on a charge of buying royal telephone directories through bribing corrupt public officials.
The jury at Old Bailey were discharged after failing to reach a verdict on the charges last week.
The former spin doctor Coulson, 46, was found guilty last Tuesday of being involved in plotting to hack the voicemails of a host of celebrities, royals, politicians and ordinary members of the public in the hunt for stories at the Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct Sunday tabloid. He is due to be sentenced later this week and will face maximum of two years in prison for phone-hacking conspiracy at the NoW between 2000 and 2006.
Goodman, 56, pleaded guilty to phone hacking in 2006 and despite admitting his activities were more extensive than previously said, he will not face any further legal action over it.
The Crown Prosecution Service has announced on Monday to still pursue both defendants on the two counts.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC has said: “The CPS has taken the position to proceed with the retrial.”
Mr Coulson’s former colleague Rebekah Brooks was cleared of all charges on the 138th day of the marathon trial at the Old Bailey along with her husband Charlie Brooks, who was also found not guilty.
The court also heard that the four senior staff members had “utterly corrupted” the newspaper at the highest level. Coulson was being sentenced alongside three former colleagues including former NoW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, 52, news editor Greg Miskiw, 64, and reporter James Weatherup, 58, who have all admitted their part in the “systemic misconduct”.
Mr Justice Saunders is expected to hand down the sentences on Friday following today and tomorrow’s mitigation by lawyers.
The maximum penalty for phone hacking is up to two years in jail.
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