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NoW’s former features editor faces jail after pleading guilty to phone hacking | NoW’s former features editor faces jail after pleading guilty to phone hacking |
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The former features editor at the News of the World is facing a jail sentence after he admitted overseeing four years of phone hacking. Jules Stenson pleaded guilty to involvement in what the prosecution has called “industrial-scale hacking” operation at the News International newspaper under disgraced editor Andy Coulson between 2003 and 2007. The 48-year-old, from Wandsworth, south London, will be sentenced on a date to be fixed next year. | |
The paper’s former deputy editor Neil Wallis, 63, pleaded not guilty to the same allegation at the Old Bailey on Friday and was given unconditional bail. He awaits a six-week trial on 3 June next year. | |
The pair were the first to be charged under the Metropolitan police’s Operation Pinetree, an investigation into allegations of phone hacking at the features desk that stemmed from the Operation Weeting inquiry that led to the conviction of Coulson earlier this year. The Weeting conspiracy involved Coulson, news desk executives Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup, Neville Thurlbeck and Ian Edmondson, features reporter Dan Evans, and private detective Glenn Mulcaire, all of whom were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to being involved in hacking on the paper. | |
Stenson was the boss of the former News of the World journalist Evans, who admitted to routine hacking, including eavesdropping on the messages of actor Daniel Craig, in the earlier trial. | |
In a separate trial at Kingston crown court, a judge ruled that Chris Pharo, the Sun’s head of news, will no longer face trial for paying a prison official at Swaleside prison for stories about security breaches in 2007 and 2009. | |
Judge Richard Marks told jurors: “For reasons I need not go into at the present time, my intention is having considered the matter with counsel to discharge you from giving a verdict on that count.” | |
Pharo still faces three other charges, all of which he denies. |
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