News of the World royal phone hacking scandal failures of the police investigation would go on to form part of the wider scandal in 2011. In August 2006, the "News of the World"s royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, it was
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