A former News Of The World has been convicted of plotting to hack phones.
Former features editor Jules Stenson admitted conspiring to interpret voicemail messages at the now defunct Sunday tabloid between January 1 2003 and January 26 2007.
Targeting high profile figures including politicians, footballers, celebrities and royalty, the plot also involved Andy Coulson, Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup, Neville Thurlbeck, Dan Evans, Ian Edmondson and private detective Glenn Mulcaire.
Stenson was the boss of NotW journalist Evans who admitted phone hacking and was the star witnesses in the hacking trial at the Old Bailey earlier this year.
The 48-year-old, from Wandsworth, south London will be sentenced on a date to be fixed next year.
Former deputy editor Neil Wallis appeared beside Stenson and pleaded not guilty to the same offence and was given unconditional bail as he awaits a six-week trial on June 3 next year.
Stenson and Wallis, 64, of Chiswick, west London, were arrested and charged as part of Operation Pinetree, a Scotland Yard investigation into claims that features staff at the now-defunct tabloid obtained information through phone hacking.
In July, Coulson, 46, was found guilty of the hacking plot while former editor Rebekah Brooks, 46, and retired managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 74, were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Other NotW journalists had pleaded guilty to being part of the voicemail interception conspiracy before the trial started last year.
Evans, 38, of Kilburn, north London, was handed a 10-month jail term suspended for 12 months plus 200 hours of community service.
Miskiw, 64, from Leeds, and chief reporter Thurlbeck, 52, of Esher, Surrey, were each jailed for six months while Weatherup, 58, of Brentwood in Essex, was jailed for four months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid community work.
The trial judge Mr Justice Saunders described private eye Mulcaire, 43, of Sutton, south London, as "the lucky one", as he handed him a six-month jail term, suspended for 12 months, plus 200 hours of unpaid community work.
Last month, news editor Edmondson, 45, was jailed for eight months after admitting his part in the hacking conspiracy before facing a retrial after being dropped from the original hacking trial on health grounds.
