UK hacking suspect warned boss of jail risk, trial hears

The former royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid warned his boss that if payments to his sources were traced they could all "end up in jail", Britain's phone-hacking trial heard on Thursday. Clive Goodman said in an email to former managing editor Stuart Kuttner in July 2005 that because two of his contacts were in uniform he was taking a serious risk with the cash-only payments he made to them. Eight defendants, including Goodman and former editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, are on trial in the blockbuster case which arose from the scandal that shut the News of the World in July 2011. Goodman added that he was also making payments to an executive at a rival newspaper who insisted on cash payments because he was taking on "potentially life-altering risks for us".

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