Senior executives of Mirror Group Newspapers authorized widespread illegal activity at their tabloids including the targeting of a British royal, the lawyer for Prince Harry and others suing the publisher said on Thursday.
Harry, King Charles' younger son, and more than 100 others including celebrities and high-profile figures, are suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.They allege the papers habitually accessed private information by phone-hacking, deception and other illicit means between 1991 and 2011.
"At all levels, the defendant's organization was concealing unlawful activity because it was well aware of how damaging it was," he said. When the royal's lawyers complained the story was inaccurate and obtained illegally, the Mirror's then editor, Piers Morgan, replied in a letter the suggestion was a "poor and thinly disguised threat that I will not dignify with comment" and the information had come from an "impeccable source."
Morgan, now a high-profile media figure, has always denied any involvement in, or knowledge of, phone-hacking or other illegal activity.
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