Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and television host, has been questioned under caution for a second time about phone hacking.
The Metropolitan police confirmed that a 50-year-old man had been interviewed under caution on Tuesday as part of Operation Golding, the investigation into allegations of phone hacking at Mirror Group Newspapers.
Morgan said in a statement: “Some time ago I was asked to attend an interview with officers from Operation Golding when I was next in the UK.
“This was further to a previous voluntary interview I provided in December 2013.
“I attended that interview today.
“As this is an ongoing investigation, I am unable to comment further until its conclusion.”
He was first questioned by police in December 2013.
Morgan, who edited the Daily Mirror for nine years until 2004 and is now editor-at-large of Mail Online in the US, has always denied that he was personally involved in phone hacking. In an interview with the Guardian last October Morgan said: “I’ve never hacked a phone nor told anybody to hack a phone.”
Four former Sunday Mirror journalists, including ex-editor Tina Weaver and former Sunday People editor, James Scott, were arrested over alleged phone hacking by officers from the Metropolitan police’s Operation Weeting investigation in March 2013. No charges have yet been brought.
Morgan, a former News of the World editor, took over at the Daily Mirror in 1995 and held the position until 2004 when he was sacked following the publication of hoax photographs the newspaper claimed showed Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers. He later wrote a book about his career before pursuing a career in broadcasting and eventually landing his own show on US network CNN in 2011.
He appeared as a co-host on ITV’s Good Morning Britain last week, but is usually based in the US.