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Prince Harry’sphone hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers continues to make news.
On Wednesday, theBBCresurfaced an interview of formerDailyMirroreditorPiers Morganweighing in on the trialand the implication that he knew about the interception of Harry’s voicemails while at the publication.
“I never hacked a phone,” the 58-year-old broadcaster and journalist who edited the British tabloid newspaper from 1995 until 2004, told Amol Rajan in March. “I wouldn’t even know how.”
“I think phone hacking is completely wrong and shouldn’t have been happening, and it was lazy journalists being lazy,” he added. “There’s no evidence I knew anything about any of it.”
Morgan — who stepped intoLarry King’s primetime CNN slot from 2011 to 2014 — also addressed the question of whether phone hacking took place at theMirrorwhile he was a member of the editorial staff.
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“Originally I said, I’ve never hacked a phone, I’ve never told anyone to hack a phone, and no story has ever been published in theMirrorin my time from the hacking of a phone,” Morgan told theBBC. “And then somebody pointed out, well you can only know the first two things for sure. All I can talk to is what I know about my own involvement.”
While the BBC spot was filmed in March, it is relevant again as MGN offered an “unreserved” apology to the Duke of Sussex on Wednesday for a February 2004 story that appeared in theMirror’s sister publication,The Sunday People.
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The article published inThe Peopleis not one of Harry’s claims in this case, however, and MGN does not admit any other instances of “unlawful information gathering” in relation to the prince.
Harry is one of four “representative” claimants chosen as “test cases” from a larger group of high-profile figures suing MGN for alleged unlawful information gathering,The Independentpreviously reported. The other claimants are actress Nikki Sanderson, actor Michael Turner and Fiona Wightman, ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.
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Sherborne added that Harry “experienced unusual telephone and media-related activity” involving his communication with “over 30 individuals with whom he had close relationships and was in regular contact with, and often exchanged voicemail messages with, including about private and family matters and business affairs.”
Though he wasn’t there for the start of the trial on Wednesday,Prince Harryisexpected to appear in London courtfor the trial in June. The trial itself is expected to last between six and seven weeks, and Harry will make modern royal history as the first member of the royal family to step up in court as a witness when he gives evidence.
source: people.com
