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| Prime Minister David Cameron |
LONDON - BRITISH police on Friday said they had sent new evidence to prosecutors over phone-hacking claims at a newspaper when it was edited by the man now employed as Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.
The announcement came just over a week after Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World tabloid, was interviewed as a witness at a voluntary meeting with officers from London's Metropolitan Police.
A spokesman add
ed that the file 'includes the statements of the people seen (interviewed) following the claims made by the New York Times and other media since September 2010.
Mr Coulson was editor of the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid, when its royal correspondent was jailed for conspiracy to access mobile phone messages involving princes William and Harry.
He resigned in 2007 over the affair, becoming communications chief for Mr Cameron's Conservatives six months later, but has always insisted he did not know about the phone-hacking or authorise its use.
A police investigation into the hacking was revived after a former reporter at the tabloid, Mr Sean Hoare, told the New York Times in September that Mr Coulson had 'actively encouraged' him to hack phone messages. -- AFP
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