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 warning that the Metropolitan Police would "deeply resent" an inquiry. Several days later the paper revealed comments by former "News of the World" journalist Paul McMullan on how widespread phone hacking had been under Andy Coulson; McMullan was one of six former "News of the World" journalists "who have independently told the Guardian that Coulson ... knew that his reporters were engaging in unlawful acts.". In September 2010, "The New York Times" published the results of an investigation it had begun in March which revealed further details about the extent of the "News of the World"'s phone hacking, and about