Coulson jailed for 18 months over ‘unforgiveable’ hacking DISGRACED No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson was handed the “major share of the blame” for phone hacking at the News of the World as he was jailed for 18 months. The 46-year-old father of three was found guilty last week of conspiring to intercept voicemails at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid following an eight-month trial at the Old Bailey. The judge Mr Justice Saunders singled out the former editor for the heaviest punishment, describing the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler as “unforgiveable”. He said: “Mr Coulson, on the jury’s verdict, has to take the major share of the blame for the phone hacking at the News of the World.” “On the jury’s verdict he knew about it and encouraged it when he should have stopped it.” On the Milly voicemail interception in 2002 which suggested she may be alive in Telford, he said: “The NotW delayed telling the police the contents of the voicemail until they realised that they were not going to find Milly. “That was unforgiveable and could only, in my judgment, have happened with the knowledge of the person editing the paper that week, Andy Coulson.” He said their “true motivation” in hacking Milly’s phone was [...] leedsinnews/coulson-jailed-for-18-months-over-unforgiveable-hacking/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:01:52 +0000
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