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Phone hacking: Crown Prosecution Service announcement Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges
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Prosecutors are due to announce whether more charges are going to be brought over allegations of phone-hacking. Eight people, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
Thirteen people are due to answer police bail in connection with the Operation Weeting investigation. The former News of the World editors will be charged in connection with the accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone messages.
Among those waiting for a decision are the former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, and the PM's ex-head of communications Andy Coulson. Seven face charges of conspiring to intercept communications between 13 October 2001 and 9 August 2006.
The Met Police launched the operation after "significant" information was provided by News International. An inquiry was launched after details of phone hacking at the NoW emerged.
NI later closed the News of the World, which was at the centre of the scandal. The revelation that the schoolgirl's phone had been hacked led to the closure of the Sunday tabloid newspaper in July last year.
Also waiting for a decision are Ian Edmondson, former assistant editor of the NoW, Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter of the NoW and Neil Wallis, former executive editor of the NoW, a PR consultant who worked for Scotland Yard. Mrs Brooks, who is also a former News International chief executive, faces three charges relating to the alleged accessing the voicemails of Milly Dowler and former trade union boss Andrew Gilchrist, CPS legal adviser Alison Levitt QC said.
CPS legal adviser Alison Levitt QC is expected to announce at 1100 BST whether any of the 13 will face prosecution. Mr Coulson, the prime minister's former communications chief, will face four charges linked to accusations of accessing the phone messages of Milly Dowler, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and George Best's son Calum Best.
Six people, including Mrs Brooks, have been charged so far with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. They deny the charges. The 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.
Allegations that the paper had been illicitly hacking people's voicemail messages first came to light in 2006, when NoW royal editor, Clive Goodman, and private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were found to have been intercepting the phones of royal aides. Ms Levitt said that 13 files had been passed to the CPS by the Metropolitan Police and she had decided that there was a "realistic prospect of conviction" in relation to eight of them.
The pair pleaded guilty and were jailed in 2007. The paper said they had "acted alone". All of the suspects apart from Mr Mulcaire will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority.
But during the years that followed, fresh evidence of widespread hacking emerged and the number of alleged victims suing the paper grew. Prosecutors will allege that more than 600 people, including Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, were victims of this offence.
Other victims of alleged hacking named in connection with the charges were former MP David Blunkett, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Abi Titmuss and John Leslie, Delia Smith, Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller, and Wayne Rooney.
The CPS said it would be taking no further action against five other previous suspects.