(UPI) -- The two people at the center of the News of the World phone hacking scandal were revealed to have had a six-year affair, revealed during the ongoing trial in which they are accused of phone hacking.
Rebekah Brooks, protege to media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Andy Coulson, a former editor and spin doctor to British Prime Minister David Cameron are accused of conspiring to hack voicemails and commit misconduct in public office. Their relationship, revealed Thursday in court, set the British press abuzz.