Royal editor in court over phone-hacking probe

The News of the World’s royal editor will appear in court next week in connection with a string of offences after being questioned over alleged mobile phone hacking.

Scotland Yard said last night that senior journalist Clive Goodman, aged 48, from Putney, had been charged with a total of nine offences, including plotting with Glenn Mulcaire to “intercept communications, namely by agreeing to access individuals' telephone voicemail messages, in the course of their transmission by means of a public telecommunication system, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977”.