Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been questioned by police over phone hacking, it has emerged.
Police confirmed a 48-year-old journalist was interviewed under caution on 6 December. The CNN host, who has not been named by Scotland Yard, was questionedas part of an investigation into alleged hacking at Mirror Group Newspapers. Mr Morgan, who has always denied any knowledge or involvement the practice, confirmed he attended the interview. He was interviewed as part of Operation Golding, the investigation into allegations of phone interception at Mirror Group Newspapers, which is a strand of the wider Operation Weeting. In a statement released through his spokeswoman, Mr Morgan said: “In early November I was asked to attend an interview by officers from Operation Weeting when I was next in the UK.”This was further to a full witness statement I had already freely provided. I attended that interview as requested on 6 December 2013.” Scotland Yard did not name Mr Morgan, but said: “A 48-year-old man who is a journalist was interviewed under caution on 6 December 2013 by officers from Operation Golding in connection with suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails. “He was interviewed by appointment at a south London police station. He was not arrested.” The former newspaper editor is now best known as a talk show host in both the UK and the US. He was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004, when he was sacked after the newspaper conceded that photographs of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. Mr Morgan joined the Mirror from the News of the World, where he became editor in 1994 at the age of just 28. – BBC Entertainment
