The former deputy editor at the now-defunct News of the World newspaper will not face any charges regarding phone hacking, the CPS has announced. It said Neil Wallis would not face prosecution because there was insufficient evidence. Mr Wallis wrote on Twitter: "After 21 months of hell for my family, CPS have just told my solicitors that there will be no prosecution of me." He was arrested in 2011 on suspicion of intercepting communications. In a statement, Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said prosecutors had been considering whether to bring charges against two journalists over alleged phone hacking. No reasons given She said: "The file in relation to one of those two journalists was resubmitted on January 11 2013. "Having carefully considered the matter, the CPS has concluded that there is insufficient evidence for a rea
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