London (CNN) -- Phone hacking was widespread at the Daily Mirror newspaper when Piers Morgan was its editor, a former employee testified Wednesday, stopping just short of saying Morgan definitely knew about it. James Hipwell said that he "cannot prove" that Morgan knew about illegal eavesdropping, but that it was "very unlikely he did not know what was going on." Phone hacking "happened every day" at the Mirror's show business desk in late 1999, Hipwell told the Leveson Inquiry, a wide-ranging government-backed investigation of British press ethics and practices. Also on Wednesday, Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills accused Morgan of using her as a "scapegoat."
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A former Piers Morgan employee says he must have known about hacking
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It "happened every day" on the Mirror's show business desk in 1999, James Hipwell says
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Paul McCartney's ex-wife accuses Piers Morgan of using her as a scapegoat
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Morgan earlier said he did not believe there had been hacking at his paper
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