Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has issued a court docket apology to former Coronation Street star Nikki Sanderson for using non-public investigators to gather tales about her. The apology was made during Sanderson’s ongoing High Court case towards the publisher, where she is seeking damages for 37 articles revealed within the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and People newspapers between 1999 and 2009.
In her witness assertion, Sanderson claimed she was “abused” by MGN and “attacked” by people with extra energy than her. She joined Coronation Street in 1999, on the age of 15, playing the function of Candice Stowe, which quickly drew media attention. Sanderson alleges the newspapers hacked her mobile phone voicemails and paid personal investigators to obtain personal details about her.
No strings attached , representing the newspapers, stated that whereas there have been records of calls from journalists to Sanderson’s phone numbers, there was no proof of phone hacking. However, he admitted that on 4 events in 2004 and 2005, journalists used personal investigators from firms ELI and Avalon, which have been implicated in unlawful info gathering, to target Sanderson.
The case is also set to hear from different claimants, together with Coronation Street actor Michael Turner, identified professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comic Paul Whitehouse. They all allege that unlawful methods were used to obtain data for stories and that senior executives must have been conscious of those actions and didn’t stop them, which MGN denies..