UK Phone hacking scandals Multiply

UK Phone hacking scandals Multiply

The horror of the phone hacking scandal in UK has worsened after a new report issued that the former wife of Paul McCartney had been hacked by a journalist of the Mirror Group in Britain. The said journalist admitted in 2001 that he was hacking phone call conversations between McCarthy and his still girlfriend at that time, Heather Mills. The journalist was able to quote verbatim or the exact same words from the couple’s conversation in a phone call with Paul McCartney’s former wife. Heather Mills and Paul McCartney were not yet married during the alleged phone hacking incident way back in 2001. Mills threatened the journalist about the invasion of privacy and that the conversation was way too private. She even told the journalist to call the police but the journalist gave an assurance that he won’t expose the conversation to the public.

The tabloid, News of the World, has been closed last month after a reported phone hacking incident of a 13 year old girl lead to her eventual abduction and killing at the hands of the perpetrators of the crime. Former journalists from other newspaper companies admitted that phone hackings are also very rampant at their previous companies. These companies include Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror. However, Trinity Mirror, the parent company of the two companies, countered the allegations by former journalists saying that all of their journalists are working within the law and live by the Press Code of Conduct.

BBC however opted not to release the identity of the journalist accused of hacking the phone conversation between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney. But it was already confirmed that the said journalist is not Piers Morgan, Daily Mirror’s editor.

Posted by James Fried on Friday August 05 2011, 7:50 AM EST. Ref: Reuters. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0