Ian Edmondson was the news editor at the News of the World.
13 Facts About Ian Edmondson
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Ian Edmondson was initially hired by News of the World as a general news reporter.
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Ian Edmondson went on to spend 18 months as the paper's crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid The People in 2000 as assistant news editor.
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Ian Edmondson progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor in 2003.
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Ian Edmondson was hired to the News of the World editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004.
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Ian Edmondson was reported to have been privy to most of the big scoops the paper published each week.
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In May 2012 Ian Edmondson was appointed as the editor of Loaded magazine.
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Ian Edmondson was suspended on 5 January 2011 after being implicated in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, and sacked later in the same month.
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Ian Edmondson was arrested, along with his former colleague Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April 2011 by police as part of Operation Weeting, and released on bail until September 2011, later extended until March 2012.
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Ian Edmondson was one of those on trial in R v Brooks, Coulson and six others, but when he fell ill the trial continued without him.
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On 3 October 2014, Ian Edmondson changed his plea to guilty, becoming the eighth person from the now-defunct News of the World to be convicted of phone hacking.
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Ian Edmondson admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between 3 October 2000 and 9 August 2006.
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The court heard that Ian Edmondson tasked Mulcaire with hacking some 344 times.