Piers Morgan ‘injected’ snippets of information into royal stories, Harry’s hacking trial hears 

Piers Morgan ‘injected’ bits of information into royal stories, Prince Harry’s hacking trial heard today.

The former Daily Mirror editor, 58, has consistently denied running a phone hacking empire.

The Supreme Court has learned that Mr. Morgan was fascinated with show business stories and heard claims that he knew many came from listening to the voicemail messages of famous people.

On Thursday, Jane Kerr, the paper’s royal correspondent in the 1990s and 2000s, said the editor was “really genuinely interested” in the coverage and would occasionally add bits of information to the stories she’d written.

In her written testimony, she said Mr Morgan was ‘busy with Palace’s press offices and would occasionally send or inject information into a story’.

David Sherborne cross-examined royal correspondent Jane Kerr, whose byline appears in several of the 33 articles cited by the Duke of Sussex as examples of unlawful infringement by publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (photo: Jane Kerr arrives at the High Court in London on Thursday , June 8, 2023)

Prince Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, suggested Mr Morgan had extracted the extra information from hacked voicemail messages.

His newspaper allegedly hacked into Harry’s messages from Princess Diana when he was a schoolboy, and earlier in the case former Number 10 spin doctor Alistair Campbell accused the ‘two-faced’ Mr Morgan of hacking into his bank account.

Speaking to the BBC ahead of the trial, Mr Morgan insisted: ‘I’ve never hacked into a phone. I’ve never told anyone to hack into a phone.’

He has expressed contempt for Prince Harry’s decision to go to court, telling reporters: “I wish him luck with his privacy campaign and look forward to reading about it in his next book.”

The Duke of Sussex has used the trial to charge Mr Morgan with ‘a barrage of heinous personal attacks and harassment’ against himself and his wife Meghan in response to his suing the publisher of The Mirror.

Harry vowed to hold him “duly accountable for his unlawful activities against me and my mother during his editorship.”

Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004, has always denied phone hacking. commercial gain’.

Following Prince Harry’s historic day and a half on the witness stand, the case has moved today to other plaintiffs who are also suing Mirror Group Newspapers.

Harry, who flew from his home in California to testify earlier this week, was not present at the Supreme Court on Thursday (pictured: Prince leaves court on Wednesday)

David Sherborne, Prince Harry’s lead lawyer, arrives at the High Court in London on Thursday 8 June 2023

The Hollyoaks and former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson was in court when Mr Sherborne outlined how her personal life had been ‘thrown across the papers’, telling Mr Justice Fancourt that she had said: ‘This isn’t celebrity gossip – it’s my life.’

The 39-year-old actress, who played Candice in Coronation Street between 1995 and 2005 and has played Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks since 2012, was particularly hurt by an article about her father with the headline ‘Corrie Candice’s dad is a secret love rat’. allegedly obtained illegally.

The publisher of the Mirror denies all claims against it.

The case continues.