UK PM's ex-aide charged in hacking scandal

2012-08-16 1

British Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of communications, Andy Coulson, and the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, Rebekah Brooks, will be charged with phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Rory Challands reports from London. Six other people will also be charged in the ever-widening scandal for their roles in a lengthy campaign of illegal espionage that victimised hundreds of people, the CPS said on Tuesday in a televised statement.

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