Piers Morgan interviewed by police investigating phone hacking

February 14, 2014

Piers Morgan, former editor of UK newspaper the  and now an anchor on US-based, was interviewed under caution by UK police as part of an investigation into named. The interview was revealed today but was conducted on December 6.

He was the sixth journalist from the Mirror Group to be questioned under caution or arrested in connection with allegations of phone hacking. Morgan was not arrested. Neither Trinity Mirror nor CNN have made any statement regarding Morgan's police questioning.

Morgan gave a statement: "In early November I was asked to attend an interview by officers from 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."

In 2011, the Leveson Inquiry was told by James Hipwell, a former financial reporter at the Daily Mirror, that phone hacking was used routinely at the newspaper, and that it formed a "bog-standard tool" for investigating entertainment stories.