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
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal announced in December 2011 that there was no evidence phone hacking of Milly Dowler's phone by agents of "News of the World" had caused messages to be deleted or give her parents false hope of her being alive, the Australian, which is owned by News International carried the article published by "The Times", also a News International newspaper, strongly critical of "The Guardian" and their investigative reporter, Nick Davies who broke the story. The article raised the question, "whether the paper would still exist if The Guardian had not erroneously blamed it for the Dowlers' false hope." The article contained