Four months for bugging royal phones

A senior journalist on Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was jailed for four months on Friday for hacking into the mobile telephones…

A senior journalist on Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was jailed for four months on Friday for hacking into the mobile telephones of members of the royal household "several  hundred" times.

The News of the World'sroyal affairs editor Clive Goodman listened to voice mail messages left for the press secretary of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and also for two officials who worked for his sons, Princes William and Harry.

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