Journalist admits phone hacking for Sunday Mirror

LONDON (AP) — A former tabloid journalist told Britain’s phone hacking trial on Monday that he intercepted voicemails with the knowledge of senior executives — not just at the now-defunct News of the World, whose employees are standing trial, but at the rival Sunday Mirror.

Dan Evans has pleaded guilty to phone hacking while working at both newspapers between 2003 and 2010, and is the first journalist to admit hacking for a paper not owned by News of the World proprietor Rupert Murdoch.