Ex- British Prime Minister’s aide, jailed 18 months in phone hacking scandal

A judge at the Old Bailey court in London sentenced Coulson after he was found guilty on June 24 of conspiracy to intercept voicemails for stories in the tabloid following a marathon eight-month trial.Former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw and chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck were each sentenced to six months imprisonment, while […]

A judge at the Old Bailey court in London sentenced Coulson after he was found guilty on June 24 of conspiracy to intercept voicemails for stories in the tabloid following a marathon eight-month trial.
Former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw and chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck were each sentenced to six months imprisonment, while journalist James Weatherup and private detective Glenn Mulcaire received six-month suspended sentences.
The four had all earlier pleaded guilty to phone hacking
Cameron was last week forced to make an embarrassing public apology after the conviction of Coulson, who was his communications director from 2007 until his resignation in 2011.
The 46-year-old Coulson edited the News of the World, then Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper, between 2003 and 2007. He stepped down after Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire admitted hacking into phones of royal aides to generate front page news stories.
Just months later he went to work as the communications director for Cameron, first in opposition and then in Downing Street when the Conservative leader was elected as prime minister in 2010.
Cameron made a public apology following Coulson’s conviction, as his political rivals said the appointment had demonstrated the prime minister’s lack of judgment.