World News - Trial jury told of 'hacking' emails

divdiv class=story-body readability=69 span class=story-date#13; span class=date31 October 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time09:28 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1The jury in the phone-hacking trial has been told of three emails disclosed by News International which caused police to launch an investigation in 2011./p#13; pThey were from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to then News of the World head of news Ian Edmondson./p#13; pIt is alleged they concerned hacking phones linked to Tessa Jowell and David Mills, Lord Frederick Windsor and an adviser to John Prescott./p#13; pEight defendants deny a range of charges at the Old Bailey./p#13; pThe court heard on Wednesday that three former News of the World journalists, who are not on trial, and Mulcaire had pleaded guilty to phone-hacking charges./p#13; pThe court was told that the first email message, on 20 April 2006, referred to MP Tessa Jowell and her husband Mr Mills, at a time when he had been accused of involvement in bribery linked to former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi./p#13; p It said: Substantial traffic both ways, also looks like she's selling up./p#13; div class=story-feature wide #13; a class=hidden href=#story_continues_2Continue reading the main story/a !-- pullout-items--#13; link rel=stylesheet rev=stylesheet href=http://static.bbci.co.uk/modules/twitter/0.1.73/css/gel_preset.css/link rel=stylesheet rev=stylesheet href=http://static.bbci.co.uk/modules/twitter/0.1.73/css/gel_single_account.css/div class=sps-twitter_module readability=1 p class=twitter_disclaimer Content from Twitter. a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/about.shtml#tw id=tweet_pane_endLearn more/aspan class=dna-hide about content from Twitter/span./p /div !-- pullout-body--!-- pullout-links--ul class=links-listlia href=/news/correspondents/dominiccasciani/Read more from Dominic/a/li#13; /ul/div p id=story_continues_2Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the jury: You're going to have to decide in Mr Edmondson's case what you make of that, whether it can possibly mean anything at all other than 'I've been phone-hacking Tessa, and this is what I've found out'./p#13; pAnother message, from 27 April 2006, referred to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and contained a reference to press * and Pin, which prosecutors say was Mulcaire telling Mr Edmondson how to hack a phone./p#13; pThe third email referred to an adviser to former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott, who was at the centre of a publicity storm because he was accused of having an affair./p#13; pThe jury has also been told senior figures at the now-defunct News of the World would have been involved in the decision to give Mulcaire a written contract in September 2001 - worth around £100,000 a year./p#13; pProsecutors claim that Mr Edmondson must have known that Mulcaire was hacking phones./p#13; pReferring to the alleged targeting of Ms Jowell and her husband, Mr Edis said: We know what Mr Mulcaire was doing, he was phone hacking./p#13; pLook how much contact there is at this time between Mr Edmondson and Mr Mulcaire. Do you think it is likely or even possible that Mr Edmondson did not know what was being done by Mr Mulcaire?/p#13; pMr Edis went on: This was an important story. It wasn't something that was stuck after the letters page, this was big stuff./p#13; pThe prosecutor said it was the editor's duty to ask How do I know this information is true? when stories were going to appear in the newspaper. /p#13; pMr Coulson was editor at this time, he told the jury./p#13; span class=cross-head'Hacked rivals'/span#13; pThe jury then heard the NoW tried to get a scoop about Lord Prescott's affair with his secretary Tracey Temple in April 2006./p#13; pMr Edis described a series of phone calls, emails, and phone hacks that he said demonstrated Mulcaire trying to get information./p#13; p id=story_continues_3The jury also heard that journalists at the paper, including James Weatherup - one of those who has pleaded guilty to hacking charges - and Mr Coulson, discussed trying to contact Ms Temple to offer her £100,000 for her story./p#13; pHe said records showed that they then tried to hack the phone of Lord Prescott's special adviser Joan Hammell./p#13; pThe court was told the NoW also hacked journalists from rival paper the Mail on Sunday to find out what information they had on the story./p#13; span class=cross-head'Quick worker'/span#13; pThe court heard how Lord Windsor was also a victim of phone hacking in April 2006./p#13; pMr Edis said Mulcaire had begun hacking his phone just minutes after allegedly speaking with Mr Edmondson./p#13; pHe is a quick worker - you might think he is worth £100,000 a year if you know that, but not worth much at all if you don't, the prosecutor said./p#13; pEarlier, jurors were played a recording of Mulcaire getting a voicemail password reset by mobile phone company 02 - a method it is alleged could be used to access people's voicemails./p#13; pMr Edis QC told the court: He really knows how it works, he knows the right things to say, and he is quite chatty and she doesn't seem at all troubled./p#13; pMr Edis also told the jury that emails from 2001 show Rebekah Brooks demanded formal approval of major spending as part of an effort to control costs. /p#13; pIn June 2001, she emailed the news desk and warned them all about going over budget. She told them it was becoming a disciplinary issue and any payment over £1,000 must now be authorised by her, Andy Coulson or Stuart Kuttner. /p#13; pMr Edis told the jury that the emails show that: There was financial management going on - but all the while there were payments to Glenn Mulcaire that nobody was questioning./p#13; pHe said: Who authorised the payments? Mr Kuttner did, adding that he approved 221 payments to Glenn Mulcaire, totalling £413,527 between 2000 -2007./p#13; pThe trial continues./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center