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May 21, 2015

Goodman told by Coulson he could keep his job if he admitted to ‘lone wolf’ phone-hacking, perjury trial hears

By PA Mediapoint

A former News of the World journalist has told a perjury trial that editor Andy Coulson suggested he would keep his job at the paper if he pleaded guilty to phone-hacking.

Clive Goodman, 57, told jurors that the price he had to pay was to admit to being a "lone wolf".

The witness said after being released from police custody in August 2006 that he spoke to Coulson on the phone the following day and he "seemed to think we needed to get it out of the way quickly".

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