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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to be charged over phone hacking

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking. The former-News of the World editors will  be charged in connection with the accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages. Others facing charges are former NoW managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former assistant editor Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, former assistant editor James Weatherup and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

All of the suspects apart from Mr Mulcaire will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority between October 3, 2000, and August 9, 2006.

The charge carries a sentence of up to two years in prison or a fine.

Mr Mulcaire faces four charges relating to Milly, Mr Gilchrist, Delia Smith, and Charles Clarke.

Alison Levitt QC, (pictured above) made the announcement on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service.

The eight, who will be charged when they answer police bail later, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 16 August