Andy Coulson, who will be sentenced this week over phone hacking, will be retried on bribery charges after a London jury failed to reach verdicts following an eight- month trial into wrongdoing at News Corp. tabloids.
Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, and former News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman will go through the process again, prosecutors said Monday. The pair are charged with conspiring to commit misconduct in public office by paying police officers for two royal phone directories.
Coulson, 46, is one of five people who will be sentenced to as long as two years in prison this week over phone hacking at News Corp.'s now defunct News of the World. Four other journalists and a private detective at the tabloid who pleaded guilty before the trial may also receive prison terms.
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