Brooks and Coulson to face phone-hacking charges

The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that eight people, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face a total of 19 charges in relation to phone-hacking.

The former News International editors will be charged in connection with accessing Milly Dowler’s voicemails, while seven people face charges of conspiring to intercept communications between October 2001 and August 2006.

The others facing charges are former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former assistant editor Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, former assistant editor James Weatherup and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

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