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
News media phone hacking scandal Hinton said, "I believe absolutely that Andy Coulson did not have knowledge of what was going on." Asked whether Goodman was the only person who knew about the phone hacking, Hinton replied that he believed Goodman was. In addition to Hinton, the Committee heard from Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the "News of the World", Tom Crone, legal manager of News International, Colin Myler, editor of "News of the World", and Andy Coulson, former editor of "News of the World". All of them stated there had been a thorough investigation of phone hacking and no evidence had ever been found