Former News of the World and Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans is to be charged with four alleged offences under the criminal investigations arising out of the phone hacking scandal.

Evans is accused of two counts of conspiring to intercept the voicemail messages of "well-known people and their associates" between 2003 and 2010, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday.

It is the first time that a non-News of the World journalist has been charged in relation to a conspiracy to hack phones.

A spokesman for Trinity Mirror said they had no comment on the matter.

Prosecutors said Evans is also charged with allegedly attempting to pervert the course of justice by making a false witness statement between 2009 and 2010.

The fourth charge facing Evans relates to the Operation Elveden investigation into alleged illicit payments by journalists to police and public officials.

Evans is accused of conspiring to intercept telephone communications between 28 February 2003 and 1 January 2005 and, in a separate charge, between 30 April 2004 and 1 June 2010.

He worked at the Sunday Mirror between the end of 2002 and the end of 2004 and joined the News of the World in 2005.

Gregor McGill, a senior lawyer with the CPS, said: "The CPS has concluded there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge Daniel Evans with four offences in connection with the phone hacking investigations.

"All of these matters were considered carefully in accordance with the code for crown prosecutors and the DPP's guidelines on the public interest in cases affecting the media. These guidelines ask prosecutors to consider whether the public interest served by the conduct in question outweighs the overall criminality before bringing criminal proceedings.

"May I remind all concerned that proceedings for criminal offences involving this individual will now be commenced and he has a right to a fair trial. It is very important that nothing is said, or reported, which could prejudice this. For these reasons it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."

The former News of the World journalist – who was the 12th arrest under Operation Weeting in August 2011 – has been instructed to appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 4 September.

The charge arising out of Operation Elveden alleges that Evans conspired with others to commit misconduct in public office between 1 January 2008 and 1 June 2010.

In the fourth charge, the CPS said Evans is accused of committing an act which had a tendency to pervert the course of justice – namely making a false witness statement in connection with proceedings before the high court – between 21 June 2009 and 30 April 2010.