Hacked Off CEO Nathan Sparkes said,

"Today's judgement lays bare the extraordinary cover-up which has taken place at Mirror Group Newspapers over the last two decades. It paints the picture of a rotten corporate culture, desperate to escape accountability at all costs. Other newspaper groups will also be looking over their shoulders, as this judgement shows that justice may yet catch up with them all. It is now, on the basis of the findings in today's judgement, for the police to pursue charges of perjury against any senior individuals at the publisher who misled the first part of the Leveson Inquiry in their denials of knowledge of phone hacking. The findings today should not be emerging in the context of a civil trial, so many years after allegations of phone hacking were first made. They should instead have been investigated through the promised Public Inquiry, known as Leveson Part Two, which was cancelled by the Conservative government as a sop to the press. Only such an inquiry is capable of getting to the bottom of this scandal once and for all. This judgement is a credit to the courage of the individuals who have brought these claims, in particular Prince Harry and the other lead claimants, and the bravery of the whistleblowers who testified. They faced a campaign of intimidation and abuse in the press for doing so, but today they have been vindicated and achieved the justice which the Mirror Group and the Government sought to deny them. This case serves as yet another reminder of the urgent need for effective and independent self-regulation of the press to protect the interests of ordinary people who are victims of wrongdoing by powerful and unaccountable newspaper groups".

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