LONDON: Two former senior journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s defunct British tabloid the News of the World will be charged with conspiring to hack phones, prosecutors said yesterday.
Neil Wallis, the paper’s former deputy editor, and ex-features editor Jules Stenson will make their first appearance in court in London on August 21.
Gregor McGill of the Crown Prosecution Service said there was “sufficient evidence” for a realistic prospect of conviction.
The announcement comes three weeks after former News of the World editor and Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson was jailed for 18 months after a lengthy phone hacking trial.
Another former editor of the tabloid, Rebekah Brooks, was cleared of all charges, along with her husband and three other people. Wallis, nicknamed the “wolf man”, was previously arrested in 2011 and was told last year that he would face no further action because of a lack of evidence.
AFP
