Harry, King Charles’ younger son, and more than 100 others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers, accusing the papers of phone-hacking and other unlawful behaviour.
Morgan, now a high-profile broadcaster who works for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, has always denied any involvement in or knowledge of phone hacking or other illegal activity.“I am not going to take lectures on privacy invasion from Prince Harry, somebody who has spent the last three years ruthlessly and cynically invading the royal family’s privacy for vast commercial gain and told a pack of lies about them,” Morgan told ITV News last week.
In his evidence, Scobie also recounted how he had been given a list of mobile phone numbers to hack while also working a few months earlier as a journalism student intern on theMGN’s lawyer Andrew Green said the two incidents did not happen, telling Scobie his recollections were a “false memory”. Scobie denied that was the case, saying he took offence at the suggestion.
He also denied having a “vested interest” in helping Harry, or that he was a friend or “mouthpiece” of the prince, as British tabloids have suggested.journalist Dan Evans, who was convicted of phone hacking in 2014, also gave evidence on Monday, telling the court he had been a victim of “corporate grooming” by senior MGN figures to hack phones to generate stories.
MGN, which is now owned by Reach, “strongly denies these allegations”, its lawyer Green said last week.The trial, due to last some seven weeks, is initially focusing on generic allegations against MGN before later turning to the specific claims of Harry and three other test cases. Harry is due to give evidence in person in early June, the first British royal to do so since the 19th century.
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