Andy Coulson pleads not guilty in UK perjury trial

May 15, 2015 22:55

Former UK tabloid editor and British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-communications chief Andy Coulson has pleaded not guilty as his perjury trial began in Scotland today.

The former 'News of the World' editor, who was found guilty of phone hacking last year and sentenced to 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones, is accused of lying at a trial of Scottish socialist politician Tommy Sheridan at the High Court in Glasgow in 2010.

Coulson, dressed in a grey suit, blue shirt and green tie, sat in the dock as the charges against him were read out at the High Court in Edinburgh.

It said the 47-year-old journalist had lied about his knowledge of alleged phone hacking by the paper's former royal editor and a private investigator used by the paper in 2006. In a separate count, it said he falsely testified that he had no knowledge of payments allegedly made to corrupt police officers by staff at the paper when he was editor.

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