Former police officer Derek Haslam told London's High Court that MGN journalists regularly paid a private investigation company, Southern Investigations, to unlawfully gather information.
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Harry, King Charles' younger son, and more than 100 others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers , the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, accusing the papers of phone-hacking and other unlawful behaviour between 1991 and 2011.Former police officer Derek Haslam told London's High Court that MGN journalists regularly paid a private investigation company, Southern Investigations, to unlawfully gather information.
He added that he had worked for London's Metropolitan Police before going undercover in the late 1990s to gather intelligence on Southern's co-founder Jonathan Rees.Rees, also a former police officer,"would openly brag" about conducting hacking and blagging – getting private information by deception – on behalf of MGN journalists, Haslam told the court.
Haslam also said Rees had told him that he had"sold some information to the Mirror for a story about Prince Michael of Kent being in debt to the bank".
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