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| Two ex-News of the World journalists charged over hacking - CPS | Two ex-News of the World journalists charged over hacking - CPS |
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| Two former News of the World journalists have been charged with conspiring to hack phones, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. | Two former News of the World journalists have been charged with conspiring to hack phones, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. |
| The defunct newspaper's ex-deputy editor Neil Wallis and ex-features editor Jules Stenson are accused of conspiring to listen to voicemails between January 2003 and January 2007. | |
| The charges are part of Operation Pinetree into ex-NoW features staff. | |
| Both will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 21 August. | |
| Gregor McGill, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said it had been decided there was "sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest". | |
| He said the CPS had authorised the Metropolitan Police - which is leading the operation - to charge the pair. | |
| Six other journalists who were also held as part of the inquiry have already been told they will face no further action. | |
| Separately, the BBC has learned officers from Operation Pinetree have now warned about 1,300 people they may have been victims of phone hacking. | |
| BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said police believed there could be as many as 1,600 victims. | |
| He said many were likely to be celebrities and people already targeted by the NoW news desk. |