Andy Coulson – who also previously served as Prime Minister David Cameron's Communications Director – was told he must share a major part of the blame.
The sentencing judge told the Old Bailey that Coulson “knew about hacking and encouraged it when he should have stopped it”.
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Former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and news editor Greg Miskiw were both jailed for six months – while Glenn Mulcaire, the former private investigator tasked with hacking, was given a 6 month suspended sentence.
