[ISN] Now Piers Morgan˘s Mirror and The People accused of phone hacking

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:41:18 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/now-piers-morgans-mirror-and-the-people-accused-of-phone-hacking-8222000.html

By Rob Hastings
The Independent
23 October 2012

Two more tabloid newspapers were dragged into the phone-hacking scandal 
last night with the former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson 
among four people intending to sue the Daily Mirror and the Sunday 
People.

The former nanny to David Beckham’s children, Abbie Gibson, has been 
joined by Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati and the former 
Blackburn Rovers captain Gary Flitcroft in seeking damages at the High 
Court from the People.

Mr Eriksson’s action against the Daily Mirror could prove the most 
damaging to the owners of the two titles, Mirror Group Newspapers, given 
that it relates to a period when Piers Morgan was serving as editor.

Mr Morgan, who was sacked as editor after his newspaper was found to 
have used faked photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, 
denied any involvement in phone hacking after he was implicated during 
the Leveson Inquiry by high-profile figures such as Jeremy Paxman.

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