Piers Morgan. Photograph by whealie
Piers Morgan was interviewed under caution by police over alleged phone hacking at the Mirror Group newspapers on December 6th according to the BBC.
Police have confirmed that a 48-year-old journalist was interviewed as part of Operation Golding.
Morgan, 48, was editor of tabloid The Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004 before being fired for authorising the publication of photographs purporting to show British army soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, which were soon shown to be crude fakes.
Morgan worked at the News of the World before joining the Mirror as editor aged 28, and some have alleged that he published stories that came from phone hacking, and former Conservative MP Louise Mensch accused him of boasting about access to hacked phone messages, when he said in a Daily Mail article about the breakup of Paul McCartney and heath Mills:
“At one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone”
Morgan was asked to give evidence during the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking, but refused to “discuss where he was played that tape or who played it – it would compromise a source.”
