Piers Morgan ‘must have known’ about Daily Mirror phone hacking, say lawyers

Morgan has always strongly denied any knowledge of phone hacking at the Mirror and previously told the Guardian: ‘I’ve never hacked a phone nor told anybody to hack a phone.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Piers Morgan “must have had knowledge of voicemail interception” and other unlawful information gathering techniques when he was editor of the Daily Mirror, it has been claimed at the high court.

Lawyers acting for alleged phone hacking victims made the accusation while seeking financial records relating to Morgan’s time in charge of the newspaper in the early 2000s.