Retired newspaper man Stuart Kuttner (pictured, Reuters) may be guilty of being "too trusting" but that is no crime, jurors in the hacking trial were told.

The sum total of the evidence against the ex-managing editor of the News of the World amounted to "zero", his lawyer said in his closing speech to the Old Bailey.

Kuttner, 74, of Woodford Green, Essex, is accused of conspiring with former NoW editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks and others to hack phones at the now defunct Sunday tabloid.