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Phone hacking: No further action after Crown Prosecution Service finds 'insufficient evidence' for conviction

Operations Weeting and Golding investigated alleged wrongdoing at News Group and Mirror Group 

Rose Troup Buchanan
Friday 11 December 2015 11:31 GMT
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No further action will be taken over the phone hacking investigations after the Crown Prosecution Service said there was “insufficient evidence” for a conviction.

The CPS has been involved in operations investigating alleged corporate liability at News Group and against 10 individuals at Mirror group.

Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said there was "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction" in relation to either operation.

Operations Weeting and Golding investigated alleged wrongdoing at News Group, the umbrella organisation that owned the now defunct News of the World, and Mirror Group, owner of the Daily Mirror.

Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror, who was interviewed under caution twice, wrote on Twitter: “I've today been informed by CPS that no further action will be taken against me re Met Police phone hacking investigation.”

"There has been considerable public concern about phone hacking and invasion of privacy,” Ms Saunders said.

"Over the past three years, we have brought 12 prosecutions and secured nine convictions for these serious offences. These decisions bring the CPS's involvement in current investigations into phone hacking to a close."

Additional reporting by Press Association

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