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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jim Waterson Media editor

Piers Morgan knew his journalists were using voicemails for stories, court told

Piers Morgan edited the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004.
Piers Morgan edited the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

Piers Morgan knew his journalists were using private voicemails as the basis of their stories, the royal biographer Omid Scobie has told Prince Harry’s phone-hacking trial.

Scobie, who co-wrote a sympathetic book about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, told the high court he was doing work experience at the Daily Mirror in 2002 when he overheard Morgan discussing the source of a story about Kylie Minogue with a reporter.

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