Career
He was the news editor at the News of the World. Edmondson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in April 2011 as part of Operation Weeting. Edmondson worked for News of the World twice.
Before landing his first position at News of the World Edmondson worked as a freelance reporter.
He was initially hired by News of the World as a general news reporter. He went on to spent 18 months as the paper"s crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid The People in 2000 as assistant news editors
He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003. Edmondson was hired to the News of the World editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson"s deputy editor in November 2004.
Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005.
He was allegedly one of Coulson"s inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter from the News of the World. As the assistant editor of the news section, he was part of a clique of senior ranking staff that discussed "high grade" and sensitive news stories privately after the official editorial meetings had taken place. He was reported to have been privy to most of the big scoops the paper published each week.
In May 2012 he was appointed as the editor of Loaded magazine.
Edmondson was suspended on 5 January 2011 after being implicated in the He was then sacked the same month. He was later released on bail until September 2011 which was subsequently extended until March 2012.
He was one of those on trial in R v Brooks, Coulson and six others, but when he fell ill the trial continued without him. A court hearing in July 2014 established that Edmondson was fit to continue.
On 3 October 2014, Edmondson changed his plea to guilty, becoming the eighth person to be convicted of phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World.
These included the voicemails of two home secretaries, Sir Paul McCartney and the actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller. The court heard that Edmondson tasked Mulcaire with hacking some 344 times. On 7 November 2014, Mr Justice Saunders jailed Edmondson for eight months, saying that he only had himself to blame.
