Kate Middleton a target on phone hacker's list

LONDON (AP):

A private investigator convicted of phone hacking had Kate Middleton's name on a list of potential targets, British prosecutors said yesterday.

A London jury was told that that the name of Middleton, who is now married to Prince William, appeared on a handwritten page titled 'Target Evaluation' in a notebook belonging to Glenn Mulcaire.

The list was among thousands of pages of notes found after Mulcaire was arrested for phone hacking in 2006.

Middleton, who became the Duchess of Cambridge when she married William in 2011, has been the subject of intense media interest since she and the prince began dating while students at St Andrew's University a decade ago.

Other names on the 'target' list included Boris Johnson, now mayor of London; former England soccer team manager Sven-Goran Eriksson; and Angelina Jolie's stunt double Eunice Huthart. It's unclear whether all those on the list were hacked.

Mulcaire was briefly jailed in 2007 for hacking the phones of royal aides on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid. He recently pleaded guilty to further hacking charges.