Kate Middleton and Boris Johnson’s names were found on a list of targets by a phone hacker employed by the former British tabloid News of the World, a jury has heard.
The Old Bailey was told police found a hand-written page titled “Target Evaluation” at private investigator Glenn Mulcaire’s home when he was arrested in 2006.
The Duchess of Cambridge was among 18 names included on the list together with the Mayor of London, PR guru Max Clifford, former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, Tom Parker Bowles and celebrity Kerry Katona.
The jury also heard that a Liverpool massage parlour receptionist had told Wayne Rooney to get out “before he was destroyed and his career was over”.
Newspaper stories about the soccer player’s “suggested use of prostitutes” had claimed Patricia Tierney had sex with him in a parlour in 2004, the court heard.
But Ms Tierney said in a statement read to the court that she had warned the footballer to leave.
Ms Tierney said: “It was alleged I had a sexual encounter with Wayne Rooney and he paid me for sex when I worked at a massage parlour.I do recall Wayne Rooney visiting with a number of other males.
“Several days later he came on his own. This time I pushed him into a room and told him to pull his hat down and get out before he was destroyed and his career was over.”
The story first appeared in the Sunday Mirror, the court heard, and was later chased by The Sun.
Notes made by Mulcaire, who has admitted phone hacking, showed he was investigating Rooney at the time and the football star’s password was Stella Artois.
The phone hacker’s notebooks also contained information with details relating to Rooney’s mother, the court heard. It was part of what the prosecution alleges was a conspiracy senior NotW staff members were aware of and involved in.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire; ex-spin doctor Andy Coulson, also 45, from Charing in Kent; former NotW head of news Ian Edmondson, 44, from Raynes Park, southwest London; and the tabloid’s ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 73, from Woodford Green, Essex, are all on trial accused of conspiring with others to hack phones between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006. The case was adjourned to tomorrow.