KATE Middleton and Boris Johnson's names were found on a list of targets by a phone hacker employed by the News of the World, a jury has heard.
The Old Bailey was told that 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.
Mulcaire, who has admitted phone hacking, intercepted former Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten's phone messages after the NotW revealed he was in a gay relationship in January 2006, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the jury.
Mr Edis said: "Mark Oaten was a candidate for the leadership of the Lib Dem Party, but at that time the newspaper detected a relationship between him and a young man, Ian Chadwick.
"Mr Oaten was married at the time and the newspaper eventually got the story by paying Mr Chadwick £20,000."
Mulcaire "blagged" Mr Oaten's phone details from Vodafone and the politician's voicemail was hacked 10 times, the court heard.
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, south west 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. They deny the charges.
The case was adjourned until today.
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