Piers Morgan denies knowing Prince Harry's phone hacking

Piers Morgan accused of 'lying at the heart', in Prince Harry trial

By Melanie Aiden May 12, 2023

The ongoing phone hacking case involving Prince Harry and Mirror Group Newspapers is making headlines once again as a resurfaced interview of former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has surfaced.

In the interview, Morgan discusses the trial and the accusations that he knew about the interception of Harry's voicemails during his time at the publication.

"I never hacked a phone," the 58-year-old broadcaster and journalist who served as the editor of the British tabloid newspaper from 1995 until 2004, told Amol Rajan in March. "I wouldn't even know how."

"I think phone hacking is completely wrong and shouldn't  have been happening, and it was lazy journalists being lazy," he added.

 "There's no evidence I knew anything about any of it."

"Originally I said, I've never hacked a phone, I've never told anyone to hack a phone, and no story has ever been published in the Mirror in my time from the hacking of a phone," Morgan revealed BBC.

"And then somebody pointed out, well you can only know the first two things for sure. 

All I can talk to is what I know about my own involvement."

Former CNN primetime host Piers Morgan, who filled in Larry King's slot from 2011 to 2014, has spoken out about the allegations of phone hacking at the Mirror during his tenure as a member of the editorial staff.

The BBC interview has become relevant again as MGN apologized to Harry on Wednesday for a February 2004 story that appeared in The Sunday People.

However, the article published is not part of Harry's claims in his ongoing case against the organization.

Mirror Group Newspapers has offered an 'unreserved' apology to Prince Harry for one instance of hacking at the Chinawhites nightclub in London in 2005, as confirmed in legal papers seen by PEOPLE.

They also also admitted that the Duke "is entitled to appropriate compensation" as a result of the unlawful information gathering.

Prince Harry's lawyer David Sherborne raised a concerning issue in court on Thursday.

Sherborne stated that one of the "most seriously troubling features" of the case was the allegation that those in charge of managing and financing the company "were well aware of what was going on."

This implies that the illegal interception of phone messages was a widespread and deliberate practice at the organization.

The case revolves around 148 articles published between 1996 and 2010, with The MGN recently admitting to one instance of unlawful information gathering on Prince Harry.