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CPS to take no further action against News UK or Piers Morgan as phone hacking investigation concludes

on Dec 11, 2015 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers and Piers Morgan will not face any corporate charges over alleged phone hacking after prosecutors brought the lengthy investigation to an end.

Director of public prosecutors, Alison Saunders, said there was “insufficient evidence” for corporate liability charges and announced that “no further action will be taken against the group or the individuals involved”.

Piers Morgan, editor of the Daily Mirror at the time of the alleged phone hacking, was one of the 10 individuals at the Mirror Group Newspapers who will face no further action.

Morgan triumphantly announced the news on Twitter.

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Source: The Drum