Tabloids On Trial

ITV has announced a new documentary focusing on the phone hacking scandal called Tabloids On Trial, due to air on Thursday July 25.

The phone hacking scandal exposed a murky tabloid world where stealing secrets was big business and privacy, meaningless. 

It's been almost two decades since the story broke and subsequent legal actions have revealed that hacking was apparently just the start, with victims accusing some of Britain's biggest newspapers of tapping landlines, fitting properties with listening devices and even burglaries to order – in the name of journalism - allegations that have been strongly denied.

Featuring Prince Harry's first major interview since the conclusion of his court case with Mirror Group Newspapers this documentary hears about his mission to continue his fight to expose the illegal tactics of Britain's tabloid press and explores what those in charge at Fleet Street really knew as this scandal unfolded. 

ITV News's Rebecca Barry meets high profile celebrities including Hugh Grant, Charlotte Church and Paul Gascoigne as well as people catapulted into the public eye, whose lives were ripped apart by newspapers.

Against a backdrop of new and impending civil trials, Rebecca speaks to the journalists and private investigators who stopped at nothing to get their headline and asks what should happen next.

Tabloids On Trial airs on ITV1 & ITVX at 9pm on Thursday July 25

This is an ITV News/ITN production for ITV1