In a ruling on the Prince Harry phone-hacking case, Mr Justice Fancourt found that “unlawful information gathering was widespread” at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People from 1996 onwards, and that phone hacking started in 1996 and became widespread and habitual from 1998.
Among the former executives and editors named in his judgment on Friday was the former Mirror editor Piers Morgan, now a presenter on the Rupert Murdoch-owned TalkTV, who has always denied knowingly commissioning or publishing stories based on illegally obtained voicemails.
