Cameron’s ex-spin doctor to be charged

Rebeka Brooks, former chief executive at News International, media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s British arm of News Corporation, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire will also face phone hacking charges.

Coulson, Brooks, Mulcaire, and five other staff at Murdoch’s now-defunct newspaper News of the World, including ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former head of news Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, and former reporter James Weatherup face prosecution.

They are accused of conspiring to unlawfully intercept communications of hundreds of high profile people including movie stars, politicians, and crime victims.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service has said the charges are related to 600 alleged victims between 2000 and 2006.

“I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship”, said Brooks.

“At the News of the World we worked on behalf of the victims of crime, particularly violent crime, and the idea that I would then sit in my office dreaming up schemes to undermine investigations is simply untrue”, said Coulson.

Coulson, who will be charged after he answers police bail later, has told reporters that he would fight the allegations.

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