Phone-hacking: resignations and arrests in the wake of the scandal – in pictures

Metropolitan police assistant commissioner John Yates became the second high-profile Scotland Yard officer to resign over phone-hacking when he quit on 18 July 2011, a day after his boss Sir Paul Stephenson Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, announced his shock resignation on 17 July 2011 Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigned on 15 July 2011 and was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting, the police inquiry into phone hacking, on 17 July Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Les Hinton, chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co, at the Dow Jones New York offices, before his resignation on 15 July 2011 Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

Tom Crone, former legal manager of News International, left the company on 13 July 2011
Photograph: PA

Colin Myler, editor of the News of the World, addressing staff after the 168-year-old paper was put to bed for the last time on 9 July 2011
Photograph: Rex Features

Ian Edmondson, former News of the World assistant editor (news), was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 5 April 2011
Photograph: Phil Adams

Neville Thurlbeck, the News of the World's chief reporter, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 5 April 2011 Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

James Weatherup, the News of the World's assistant news editor, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 14 April 2011 Photograph: Press Gazzette

Terenia Taras, a freelance journalist, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 23 June 2011
Photograph: Ben Lack

Clive Goodman, the former News of the World royal editor, was jailed in January 2007 for intercepting voicemail messages of the royal household. He was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011 Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 14 July 2011 Photograph: Photonews

An unnamed 63-year-old man was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011
Illustration: Guardian

James Desborough, the News of the World's former Los Angeles-based showbiz reporter, was arrested by police in London on 18 August
Photograph: James Young/Press Gazette