Jules Stenson: Another former ‘NOTW’ editor convicted for phone hacking
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Version 0 of 1. A senior former News of the World editor has become the latest journalist to be convicted of plotting to hack phones at the now defunct Sunday tabloid. At a hearing at the Old Bailey, the former features editor Jules Stenson admitted conspiring to intercept voicemail messages between 1 January 2003 and 26 January 2007. The plot targeted a range of high-profile figures, including politicians, footballers, celebrities and royalty and included the former editor Andy Coulson, Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup, Neville Thurlbeck, Dan Evans, Ian Edmondson and the private detective Glenn Mulcaire. Stenson was the boss of NOTW journalist Evans, who admitted phone hacking and was the star witnesses in the hacking trial at the Old Bailey earlier this year. The 48-year-old, from Wandsworth, south London, will be sentenced on a date to be fixed next year. The former deputy editor Neil Wallis appeared beside Stenson and pleaded not guilty to the same offence and was given unconditional bail as he awaits a six-week trial on 3 June next year. Stenson and Wallis, 64, of Chiswick, west London, were arrested and charged as part of Operation Pinetree, a Scotland Yard investigation into claims that features staff at the now-defunct tabloid obtained information through phone hacking. In July, Coulson, 46, was found guilty of the hacking plot while the former editor Rebekah Brooks, 46, and retired managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 74, were cleared of any wrongdoing. Other NOTW journalists had pleaded guilty to being part of the voicemail interception conspiracy before the trial started last year. Evans, 38, Miskiw, 64, Thurlbeck, 52, Weatherup, 58, and Edmondson, 45, were sentenced to jail terms of varying lengths of time. |