Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan speaks to the media at his home in west London, after a High Court judge ruled that there was "extensive" phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers from 2006 to 2011, "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.
The Duke of Sussex was awarded £140,600 after bringing a phone hacking claim against MGN, one of a number of high-profile figures who brought claims against the newspaper publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles.
The Duke of Sussex was awarded £140,600 after bringing a phone hacking claim against MGN, one of a number of high-profile figures who brought claims against the newspaper publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles.
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00:00 Today a judge in the High Court in London has ruled on various cases including Prince
00:04 Harry's claim against Mirror Group newspapers where I was an editor until 2004.
00:10 The judgment finds there is just one article relating to the Prince published in the Daily
00:14 Mirror during my entire nine year tenure as editor that he thinks may have involved some
00:20 unlawful information gathering.
00:22 To be clear I had then and still have zero knowledge of how that particular story was
00:27 gathered.
00:29 All his other claims against the Daily Mirror under my leadership were rejected.
00:33 With regard to the judge's other references to me in his judgment I also want to reiterate
00:38 as I've consistently said for many years now I've never hacked a phone or told anybody
00:42 else to hack a phone and nobody has produced any actual evidence to prove that I did.
00:48 I wasn't called as a witness, it's important for people to know this, by either side in
00:53 the case nor was I asked to provide any statement.
00:56 I would have very happily agreed to do either or both of those things had I been asked.
01:00 Nor did I have a single conversation with any of the Mirror Group lawyers throughout
01:04 the entire legal process.
01:07 So I wasn't able to respond to the many false allegations that were spewed about me in court
01:12 by all foes of mine with an axe to grind.
01:15 Most of which inexplicably were not even challenged in my absence by the Mirror Group counsel.
01:20 Prince Harry's outrage at media intrusion into the private lives of the Royal Family
01:25 is only matched by his own ruthless, greedy and hypocritical enthusiasm for doing it himself.
01:32 He talked today about the appalling behaviour of the press.
01:35 But this is a guy who has repeatedly trashed his family in public for hundreds of millions
01:39 of dollars even as two of its most senior and respected members were dying, his grandparents.
01:46 It's hard to imagine frankly more appalling behaviour than that.
01:50 As for him saying this is a good day for truth, the Duke has been repeatedly exposed in recent
01:55 years as someone who wouldn't know the truth if it slapped him around his California tanned
01:59 face.
02:00 He demands accountability for the press but refuses to accept any for himself for smearing
02:06 the Royal Family, his own family, as a bunch of callous racists without producing a shred
02:12 of proof to support those disgraceful claims.
02:15 He also says he's on a mission to reform the media when it's become clear his real mission,
02:21 along with his wife, is to destroy the British monarchy.
02:24 And I will continue to do whatever I can to stop them.