Journalist receives 4-month sentence
A British tabloid journalist who hacked into royal officials’ voicemail was sentenced to four months in prison, and his editor resigned.
The judge called the actions by Clive Goodman, the royal editor of the News of the World, “reprehensible in the extreme.”
Goodman’s accomplice, private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, was sentenced to six months in prison for hacking into the messages, including some from Princes William and Harry. Shortly after the sentencing, editor Andy Coulson announced his resignation.
Mulcaire duped mobile phone network operators into passing him confidential PINs to access messages left on the cellphones, the judge said.
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