Phone hacking “whistleblower” Graham Johnson has said he wants to help “victims of the organised crime” at the publisher of the Mirror and denied being a “professional liar”.
Johnson, who previously pleaded guilty to phone hacking, alleged that Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) senior executives and lawyers “had been aware of the widespread organised crime and involved in its subsequent cover-up”.
MGN, which also publishes the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, is contesting claims brought by the Duke of Sussex and other individuals over allegations its journalists were involved in voicemail interception, securing information through deception and hiring private investigators for unlawful activities.
The publisher says board members have denied knowledge of such activities and claims there is “no evidence, or no sufficient evidence, of voicemail interception” in any of the four claims chosen as “representative” cases.
Johnson, who was a senior reporter and then investigations editor from 1997 to 2005 at the Sunday Mirror, rejected suggestions that he had confessed to phone hacking as a “self-confessed professional liar bent on self-preservation”.
Under questioning from MGN’s lawyer at the trial at London’s High Court on Wednesday, Andrew Green KC, over his objectivity in the trial, Johnson said: “I think it is wrong for organised crime to take place at your newspaper and other newspapers and I write stories about it and...
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