Daily Mirror accused of hacking Diana’s phone during friendship with Michael Barrymore
msn.comRelated: What’s at stake for Prince Harry as he gives evidence in phone-hacking trial? The lawyer also suggested the Daily Mirror’s then editor, Piers Morgan, was disingenuous when he later wrote in his autobiography that he had “heard rumours” about a friendship between Diana and Barrymore.
Sherborne said that how Morgan had “heard” the rumours “was obvious”. The lawyer alleged the real reason the editor knew so much about Diana’s friendship with Barrymore was because “the Mirror had been listening in to her messages”.
Morgan has denied knowingly commissioning or using material from phone hacking. The allegations were made in the ongoing phone-hacking trial against Mirror Group Newspapers.
On Monday the court started to deal with the specifics about Harry’s case against MGN. The court has spent three weeks hearing evidence about the general culture at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People.
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