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 obvious evidence that many other people's phones had been hacked, remained largely unevaluated until the autumn of 2010. No one at "News of the World" other than Goodman was questioned by the Met until March 2011. Nonetheless, "senior Scotland Yard officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the tabloid." The New York Times reported that "the police agency and News International … became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the investigation. During this period, evidence of phone hacking continued