Prince Harry Trial: Former 'in-house hacker' appears in court

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Prince Harry Trial: Former 'in-house hacker' appears in court



First to give evidence in Prince Harry's case against Mirror Group newspapers, Harry and Meghan's biographer and a former journalist at the Sunday Mirror. Dan Evans given a suspended sentence back in 2014 after admitting illegal information gathering at the now defunct news of the world but a journalist before that at the Sunday Mirror. Hired in 2003 to work for then editor Tina Weaver. In court he said it was a badly kept secret that he was the designated in-house hacker using burner phones in her office to keep his work largely out of sight of the newsroom. MGM denies voicemail interception at any of its titles but in court Evans said he was doing it and had about a 30% success rate claiming that when he was at the paper in his words it was doing dodgy stuff on every story. When asked by MGM's legal team if that was overstating it he said no. A lot of stuff had dodgy goings on insisting it was so bog standard to do something dodgy along the line on a story.

The Duke of Sussex will be the star witness in this case but also in court the author of this book. Journalist Omed Scobey who when accused by MGM lawyers of having a vested interest in giving evidence said it would actually make his life more difficult that he desperately tried to move away from allegations his friends with the couple and that this link wouldn't help. But he spoke of how when he started out on work experience at the Mirror's Entertainment Desk in 2002 he heard its then editor Piers Morgan ask how confident the team was in reporting a story about Kylie Minogue and someone she was dating. He said the conversation was they had broken up. There was reference made to voicemails and calls they'd made to each other and this journalist knew details. Piers seemed reassured by this. Evidence from the Prince's biographer ahead of the royal himself coming to court next month.

Mirror Group newspapers insisting its journalist did nothing wrong. Katie Spencer Sky News.



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