Prince Harry trial news latest: Piers Morgan denies hacking allegations in BBC interview: ‘I wouldn’t even know how’

Piers Morgan has claimed he is unaware of phone hacking taking place there Mirror while he was editor of the newspaper.

That’s because Prince Harry and other celebrities filed allegations of unlawful intelligence gathering with the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) in the Supreme Court this week. The third day of negotiations is scheduled to continue today.

Before the trial began, Mr Morgan told the BBC: “I’ve never hacked a phone. I’ve never told anyone to hack a phone.”

The former editor added that phone hacking is all wrong and “lazy journalists are lazy”.

The Duke of Sussex and other celebrities including Coronation Street Actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Le Vell have accused Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) of unlawful intelligence gathering, including phone hacking and the use of private investigators.

On the second day of the seven-week trial, which began on Wednesday, the Duke’s lawyer, David Sherborne, told the court that Mr Morgan was “at the heart” of the allegations, stressing it was “inconceivable” that he and several others would deny MGN -Editors were not aware of the alleged misconduct.

Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan is involved in the high-profile court case against the Mirror Group Newspapers.

Numerous celebrities, including Prince Harry and Hugh Grant, have accused the publisher of unlawful information gathering.

However, Mr Morgan claimed that while he was an editor he was unaware that the phone had been hacked.

Today, as day three of the High Court trial resumes in London, the former editor tweeted a photo of Hugh Grant, apparently in reference to the ongoing trial.

Piers Morgan said he “never told anyone to hack a phone” amid a court case at the Daily Mirror for allegedly unlawful intelligence gathering.

The Duke of Sussex and other high-profile figures have brought allegations of phone hacking against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) titles in a seven-week trial that began on Wednesday.

Journalist and broadcaster Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004, told BBC Two’s Amol Rajan interviews: “I think phone hacking is totally wrong and shouldn’t have happened and it was lazy journalists who were lazy were.”

He added, “There’s no evidence I knew anything about it … I never told anyone to hack a phone.”

Piers Morgan has said he will “not lecture about invasion of privacy” by the Duke of Sussex after allegations of phone hacking during his time as editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper.

Prince Harry is one of several high-profile figures bringing lawsuits against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for allegedly unlawfully gathering information about their titles in a seven-week trial that began Wednesday. At the beginning of the hearing, the tabloid publisher apologized “unreservedly” to the prince for illegally obtaining information.

A trial in one of the Duke of Sussex’s legal disputes is set to begin in the High Court in London.

Prince Harry is one of several celebrities to file claims for damages against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for allegedly illegally gathering information from their titles.

The trial, which is expected to take up to seven weeks, is scheduled to resume today. The Duke is due to appear as a witness in June.

Here we look at the legal cases the Duke has been involved in in recent years:

One doesn’t have to have borne the burden of fame to know that objecting to illegal and frightening intrusions into one’s privacy might not be a moral scandal — even if one planned to post everything on Instagram anyway, he writes Tom Peck:

Above the door of Court 15 of the Rolls Building is “Variant vs. Mirror Group Newspapers,” but what’s set to happen over the next seven weeks will go by a more catchy moniker: Harry vs. Piers. The prince and the troll.

Both men were ghosts at another feast for the lawyers that began Wednesday morning at the Supreme Court. One of them, Prince Harry, will surely show up at some point. He’s due to testify in three weeks; This is the first time in modern times that a high-ranking king has done so in any significant way.

Morgan might not make it at all. He has no formal reason for doing so, but as Prince Harry’s lawyer went through the painful case against Mirror Group Newspapers, it wasn’t hard to imagine what the former editor would look like if he had pulled it off: just imagine a version with something jittery cheeks before teeth grinding emoji.

Other articles central to Harry’s claim include:

– A September 1996 Daily Mirror story headlined ‘Diana is so sad on Harry’s big day’, which the editor says was drawn from ‘previous reports’ in the public domain.

– A November 2000 Daily Mirror report of Harry’s broken thumb, which MGN says “derived from extensive previous publicly available reports and was leaked to the press by the Palace”.

– A November 2001 Sunday Mirror article entitled ‘Rugger Off Harry’ about an injury he suffered also forms part of the Duke’s claim and is attributed by MGN to a ‘confidential Eton source’ rather than illegal methods .

– A March 2002 Daily Mirror article on Harry’s diagnosis of glandular fever, in which MGN said it was ‘probable that information from the palace was being released discreetly in advance of a family trip to Switzerland’.

The Duke’s lawyers said that unlawful intelligence gathering by MGN journalists was “habitual and widespread” amid a “flood of illegality” and that Harry’s case was “significant not only in terms of the duration but also the range of activities ” may be.

David Sherborne for Harry said on Wednesday: “We all remember the pictures of him walking behind his mother’s coffin.

“From that moment on, as a student, throughout his army career and as a young adult, he was apparently exposed to the most intrusive methods to obtain his personal information.

“Prince or not, the patently unlawful and illegal methods used by the defendants … were frankly appalling.”