Piers Morgan Embroiled In Prince Harry Phone Hacking Trial; Presenter Responds With ‘South Park’ Image Mocking The Duke
deadline.comPiers Morgan is again facing questions about his involvement in phone hacking as part of a High Court legal war being waged by Prince Harry and other celebrities.
On the first day of a trial against The Daily Mirror, the British tabloid newspaper Morgan edited for nearly a decade, it was alleged that he “must have known” about illegal voicemail interception.
Morgan has consistently denied any knowledge of phone hacking at the Mirror, which he edited from 1995 to 2004. The trial has reignited the phone hacking debate in the UK more than a decade after Rupert Murdoch shut down the News of the World amid revelations about unlawful activity.
The High Court was told that Morgan, a presenter on Murdoch’s TalkTV and Fox News, openly discussed phone hacking in front of colleagues on Mirror Group Newspapers premises, according to The Guardian.
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