Sunday Mirror controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2013
Voicemail interception admission
Graham Johnson, a former Sunday Mirror investigations editor, pleaded guilty to intercepting voicemail messages in 2001 and voluntarily contacted police in 2013. The reference account described him as the first Mirror Group Newspapers journalist to admit phone hacking.
1963
Profumo affair coverage
The newly renamed Sunday Mirror covered the Profumo affair, a political scandal involving a government minister and a socialite connected to a Soviet embassy official. The coverage formed part of broader press scrutiny that damaged the Conservative government of the period.