Prosecutors drop illegal payments case against Cameron ex-aide Coulson

British prosecutors have dropped a case against former Rupert Murdoch editor Andy Coulson who had been due to stand trial in June on charges of making illegal payments to public officials. Coulson, a former editor of the News of the World who was once Prime Minister David Cameron's director of communications, had already been jailed last year for encouraging phone-hacking by journalists on the now-defunct paper. He had been due back in court to face allegations, which he denied, of also aut