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Timeline: News of the World phone-hacking scandal

Source: The Guardian

Nov 09, 2009

Summary

2006

• August Anti-terror police arrest the News of the World royal editor, Clive Goodman, on suspicion of illegally intercepting phone calls. Glenn Mulcaire, a footballer turned detective, is also arrested. Scotland Yard had previously been contacted by members of the royal household who suspected their mobile phones had been hacked into. A series of stories in the paper seemed to be based on voicemails left on their phones. Goodman is suspended a few days later.

• November Goodman admits conspiracy to intercept St James Palace phone calls "without lawful authority". Mulcaire pleads guilty to the same offence and to further charges of intercepting phone calls. News of the World editor Andy Coulson says: "I have put in place measures to ensure that they will not be repeated by any member of my staff."

2007

• January Clive Goodman sentenced to four months in jail. Mulcaire gets six months. Coulson resigns immediately.

• March Les Hinton, the News International (NI) executive chairman and PCC code of practice committee chairman, tells MPs that Goodman acted alone.

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