News of the World registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the "News of the World" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the
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