Former journalist reveals ‘Trinity Mirror’ employees regularly hacked mobile phones
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A former journalist of the tabloid, The People, which is owned by Mirror Group, has revealed that his colleagues regularly hacked phones, but their acts were covered up by senior executives.
David Brown alleged that TV anchors, Ulrika Jonsson and Noel Edmonds, and soap stars Jessie Wallace and Tina O'Brien, were among the victims of phone hacking.
“I was sent to Sweden to doorstep and confront a British man living in Stockholm after being told he had been in mobile phone contact with the TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson on the basis of information being gleaned from her mobile phone. This was done by ‘screwing’ or tapping Jonsson's phone's message bank,” Brown said.
Brown also claimed that The Mirror’s employees had hacked the mobile phone of David Beckham's children's nanny Abbie Gibson, the Telegraph reports.
The Mirror had earlier run a front-page story titled ‘Beckham's Hate Calls to Nanny’, with two pages of details, but later apologized to Beckham and paid him a family compensation.
According to Brown, Trinity’ senior human resource figure had advised executives to deny that they got stories by hacking phones on the same day when Fleet Street phone hacking scandal came to light.
“(The) advice indicates that a major media plc was not only allowing its staff to carry out illegal activity by, at best, turning a blind eye to it, but also taking part in an organised cover-up of that activity,” Brown said.
“These are unsubstantiated allegations. All our journalists work within the criminal law and the Press Complaints Commission's Code of Conduct. We have seen no evidence to suggest otherwise,” a Trinity Mirror spokesperson said.
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