London: Trinity Mirror newspapers are facing legal claims for phone hacking by four people: Sven Goran Eriksson, Abbie Gibson, former English football player Garry Flitcroft and actress Shobna Gulati.
The claims allege “breach of confidence and misuse of private information” relating to the “interception and/or misuse of mobile phone voicemail messages and/or the interception of telephone account”.
A Financial Times’ article said that no particulars of the claims have been filed.
The only company previously sued for illegally hacking voicemail messages was News Group Newspapers, publishers of the now-defunct News of the World newspaper, which was part News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire.
Hacking allegations have in the past been directed at the Mirror titles, but the publisher of papers including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People has always strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
Trinity Mirror has said publicly that it did not carry out an investigation into any alleged illegal practices at its titles because there was no evidence its journalists had hacked any phones.
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