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Ex-NotW deputy editor goes on trial

FORMER News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis became the latest of a string of journalists to go on trial yesterday for plotting to hack celebrities’ phones.

Mr Wallis, editor Andy Coulson’s right-hand man between 2003 and 2007, is accused of being part of the scandal which led to the Sunday tabloid shutting down in July 2011.

The Old Bailey heard that it was “inconceivable” that those above and below him in the newsroom all knew what was going on but that he did not.

Opening the trial, he said that Mr Wallis was not accused of doing any of the hacking himself, but that he knew it was being done and agreed to it.

Mr Wallis, 64, of Chiswick, west London, denies conspiracy to hack phones.

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