He 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.
[1] Edmondson was hired to the News of the World editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004.
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,[6] later extended until March 2012.
On 3 October 2014, Edmondson changed his plea to guilty,[8] becoming the eighth person from the now-defunct News of the World to be convicted of phone hacking.
These included the voicemails of two home secretaries, Sir Paul McCartney and the actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller.