McCartney: I’m Going To Police Over Hacking Claim

[garybeck]

http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2011/08/05/777073.aspx

Former Beatle Paul McCartney said Thursday he would contact police over his ex-wife’s claim that the couple had been spied upon by a British newspaper.

In comments to U.S. television journalists delivered via videolink from Cincinnati, Ohio, McCartney said that he would be in touch with law enforcement as soon as he was finished with his summer tour.

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Mills’ allegation, made Wednesday in an interview with the BBC, was that a senior Mirror journalist admitted to her that his paper had been spying on her messages. While the broadcaster said that the unidentified man was not Piers Morgan, the former model’s allegation echoes a claim Morgan himself made back in 2006 – a few months after the couple began divorce proceedings.

In an article published by the Daily Mail, Morgan said that he had been played a tape of a message McCartney had left on Mills’ cell phone in the wake of one of their fights.

“It was heartbreaking,” Morgan wrote. “He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang ‘We Can Work It Out’ into the answerphone.”

Questions over how Piers Morgan came to hear such a message have led several British lawmakers to call on him to return to the U.K. and explain himself.

“I will be talking to them about that,” McCartney told the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles, just hours before a perfomance.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. There is no such thing as a "Former Beatle".

At least to this baby boomer.

Sounds like Piers is in the thick of it. Allegedly the bribery and phone hacking goes all the way up to the Prime Minister, David Cameron.