News of the World registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the "News of the World" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations to re-examine the allegations regarding the "News of the World", saying that it would consider new information that it had received. In January 2011, following evidence emerging from the civil case by Sienna Miller, the Crown Prosecution Service announced a review of the evidence collected during the Metropolitan Police's original investigation into phone hacking at the "News of the World". The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, said that the decision was motivated in part by developments in the civil courts. In April 2011 the Metropolitan Police admitted that in the previous four years it had only contacted 36