Editor knew about hacking at News of the World, court told

January 30, 2014 03:09

London: A journalist told Britain's phone hacking trial on Wednesday that Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid routinely eavesdropped on celebrities' voicemail messages and editor Andy Coulson "knew exactly what was going on".

Reporter Dan Evans, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hack phones, said "even the office cat" knew the illegal practice was widely used at the now defunct paper. Coulson, a former media chief to Prime Minister David Cameron, stared out from the dock as Evans told the jury at London's Old Bailey court: "The truth is that Andy Coulson knew exactly what was going on on his watch."

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