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Andy Coulson to face new trial on hacking charges
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/06/30/3268113/andy-coulson-to-face-new-trial.html?sp=/99/261/Andy Coulson to face new trial on hacking charges
By GREGORY KATZ
Associated Press
June 30, 2014 Updated 9 minutes ago
LONDON — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and the paper's former royal reporter Clive Goodman will face a retrial on charges stemming from the phone hacking case.
British prosecutors have accused them of paying police officers to obtain royal phone directories so they could hack into the mobile phones of royal aides for stories.
The retrial was announced Monday at the start of a sentencing hearing for Coulson, who was convicted last week of a single charge of conspiring to hack phones.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service "has taken the position to proceed with the retrial" of Coulson and Goodman.
