![]() ![]() It was just as mobile phones were taking off - and Piers Morgan had been Daily Mirror editor for more than two years.Įarly in 1998 one of the paper’s journalists in Dublin realised it was possible to access messages left on the mobile phones of senior Irish politicians. When the American Daily Beast website resurrected his Desert Island Discs comments in 2011, Morgan insisted:īut, in fact, the Daily Mirror had printed an article based on phone hacking more than a decade earlier. Piers Morgan was by far the most experienced of the three: he had been Coulson’s boss at the Sun’s show business column in the early 1990s and gave Rebekah Brooks her first big promotion while he was editor of the News of the World. ![]() Coulson and Brooks - long-term on-off lovers - were tried at the Old Bailey in 2014 Brooks was acquitted but Coulson was gaoled for 18 months. All three tabloids were hacking phones at that stage. Morgan edited the Mirror, Brooks the Sun and Coulson the News of the World. PIERS MORGAN and his friends Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson at the height of their power in the early 2000s. “I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do.”īut after the revelation in July 2011 that Rupert Murdoch’s journalists had hacked murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile phone, he changed his tune. “I’m quite happy … to have to sit here defending all these things I used to get up to …” “People who tap people’s phones … how did you feel about that?” Presenter Kirsty Young asked him about dealing with people who listened to phone messages. WHEN HE appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2009, Piers Morgan was challenged about phone hacking. The evidence suggests the “dark arts” of illegal news-gathering - including phone hacking - were at the heart of Daily Mirror editorial policy when Morgan was editor. a year later it spent nearly £6,000 on illegally obtained print-outs of calls made on individual phones in 1998 the paper was openly hacking the mobile phones of senior politicians as early as 1997, the Daily Mirror was paying for “confidential enquiries” about telephone numbers ![]() “For the record … I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone.” Two of his protégés - Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks - have appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey.Ĭoulson went to gaol: Brooks was acquitted. Twice he’s been interviewed under caution by detectives investigating phone hacking at the Daily Mirror when he was editor from 1995 to 2004.īetween 20 he made a series of incriminating statements widely interpreted as evidence he knew all about the practice. FOR THE last four years Piers Morgan has been desperately trying to distance himself from the phone hacking scandal. ![]()
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