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 to re-examine the allegations regarding the "News of the World", saying that it would consider new information that it had received. In January 2011, following evidence emerging from the civil case by Sienna Miller, the Crown Prosecution Service announced a review of the evidence collected during the Metropolitan Police's original investigation into phone hacking at the "News of the World". The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, said that the decision was motivated in part by developments in the civil courts. In April 2011 the Metropolitan Police admitted that in the previous four years it had only contacted 36