Ian Edmondson (born ) is a British tabloid journalist. He was the news editor at the ''

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''. Edmondson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in April 2011 during the

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phone-hacking investigation.

Career

Edmondson worked for ''News of the World'' twice. Before landing his first position at ''News of the World'' Edmondson worked as a freelance reporter. He was initially hired by ''News of the World'' as a general news reporter. He went on to spend 18 months as the paper's crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid ''

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'' in 2000 as assistant news editor. He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003. Edmondson was hired to the ''News of the World'' editorial team by

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, who was

Andy Coulson Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968) is an English journalist and political strategist. Coulson was the editor of the ''News of the World'' from 2003 to 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to ...

's deputy editor in November 2004. Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005. A former ''

'' reporter said that Edmondson was one of the inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper. As the assistant editor of the news section, he was part of a clique of senior-ranking staff that discussed 'high grade' and sensitive news stories privately after the official editorial meetings had taken place. He was reported to have been privy to most of the big scoops the paper published each week. ''News of the Worlds former royal editor,

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, who produced some news scoops which involved paying the

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Glenn Mulcaire to hack into mobile phones belonging to leading public figures, was a colleague of Edmondson's. In May 2012 Edmondson was appointed as the editor of '' Loaded'' magazine.

''News of the World'' phone hacking scandal

Edmondson was suspended on 5 January 2011 after being implicated in the ''News of the World'' phone hacking scandal, and sacked later in the same month. Edmondson was arrested, along with his former colleague Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April 2011 by police as part of

, and released on bail until September 2011, later extended until March 2012. He was one of those on trial in

R v Brooks, Coulson and six others ''R v Coulson, Brooks and others'' was a trial at the Old Bailey in London, England, arising from the News International phone hacking scandal. Pleas At the start, Glenn Mulcaire, Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Greg Miskiw all pleaded g ...

, but when he fell ill the trial continued without him. A court hearing in July 2014 established that Edmondson was fit to continue. On 3 October 2014, Edmondson changed his plea to guilty, becoming the eighth person from the now-defunct ''News of the World'' to be convicted of phone hacking. Edmondson admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between 3 October 2000 and 9 August 2006. These included the voicemails of two home secretaries, Sir Paul McCartney and the actors

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and

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. The court heard that Edmondson tasked Mulcaire with hacking some 344 times. On 7 November 2014, Mr Justice Saunders jailed Edmondson for eight months, saying that he only had himself to blame.

References

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Career

''News of the World'' phone hacking scandal

See also

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