Piers Morgan knew about phone hacking, claims Prince Harry's biographer in London Court
2 min read . Updated: 15 May 2023, 10:53 PM IST
PremiumAccusing the papers of phone-hacking and other unlawful behaviour between 1991 and 2011, Harry, King Charles' younger son, and more than 100 others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror -- Piers Morgan -- knew about phone hacking, said Prince Harry's biographer Omid Scobie on 15 May to the London High Court as he gave evidence as part of the royal's lawsuit against the newspaper's publisher.
Accusing the papers of phone-hacking and other unlawful behaviour between 1991 and 2011, Harry, King Charles' younger son, and more than 100 others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Co-author of 'Finding Freedom', an unofficial 2020 biography of Harry and his wife Meghan, told the court that Morgan was 'reassured' over a 2002 story about singer Kylie Minogue after being told it had come from voicemail interception.
Apart from this, Scobie told the court he had been working as an intern on the Mirror's gossip column in 2002 when Morgan was told a story about Minogue was the product of phone hacking.
"Piers seemed really reassured by this," he said.
Meanwhile, Morgan has always denied any involvement in or knowledge of phone-hacking or other illegal activity.
"I am not going to take lectures on privacy invasion from Prince Harry, somebody who has spent the last three years ruthlessly and cynically invading the royal family's privacy for vast commercial gain and told a pack of lies about them," Morgan told ITV News last week.
Scobie also recounted how he had been given a list of mobile phone numbers to hack while also working a few months earlier as a journalism student intern on the Sunday People.
But, MGN's lawyer Andrew Green claimed the two incidents did not happen, while Scobie denied that was the case, saying he took offence at the suggestion.
With agency inputs.