Daily Mirror hacked Diana’s phone during friendship with Michael Barrymore, court hears

Lawyer suggests then editor, Piers Morgan, was disingenuous when he later wrote that he had ‘heard rumours’ about friendship

The phone of Diana, Princess of Wale was allegedly hacked by Piers Morgan’s Daily Mirror in an attempt to obtain details about her secret meetings with the comedian Michael Barrymore.

The high court heard that Diana had regularly talked to Barrymore in the months before her death, at a time when they were two of the most famous people in Britain. The television presenter was “struggling with coming out as gay”, as well as dealing with an addiction to alcohol and drugs.