Omid Scobie,co-author ofFinding Freedom,an unofficial 2020 biography of Harry and his wife Meghan,told London’s High Court that Morgan was “reassured” over a 2002 story about singer Kylie Minogue after being told it had come from voicemail interception.
Scobie told the court he had been working as an intern on theMirror’s gossip column in 2002 when Morgan was told a story about Minogue was theproduct of phone hacking.
“Piers seemed really reassured by this,” he said.
Morgan,now a high-profile broadcaster who works for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp,has always denied any involvement in or knowledge of phone hacking or other illegal activity.
“I am not going to take lectures on privacy invasion from Prince Harry,somebody who has spent the last three years ruthlessly and cynically invading the royal family’s privacy for vast commercial gain and told a pack of lies about them,” Morgan told ITV News last week.
In his evidence,Scobie also recounted how he had been given a list of mobile phone numbers to hack while also working a few months earlier as a journalism student intern on theSunday People.