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
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations World" had rehired a private investigator shortly after his release from a seven-year prison sentence for blackmail. The "News of the World" had used the investigator prior to his imprisonment, at a time when Coulson was deputy editor. In February 2010, "The Guardian" could not name Jonathan Rees as he was involved in a new criminal trial. In September 2010 "The Guardian" revealed that in 2009 plans by the Home Office to ask Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to review the police investigation into the phone hacking scandal were cancelled "after intense internal lobbying", with a senior Home Office official