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"Prince Harry to appear in court for his phone hacking lawsuit against The Mirror Group. Harry is not the only claimant. More than 100 other people are suing the Mirror Group, including ex-footballer and TV presenter Ian Wright,Cheryl Cole, and the George Michael estate." Image
While other royals have kept out of court in fear of their secrets being exposed. Harry brilliantly released his memoir Spare, where millions can read his story & the tabloids have nothing to blackmail him with.
Prince William having secretly received millions from Rupert Murdoch ImageImage
It's not only celebrities who've been hacked by British tabloids. They also hacked the cell phone of a dead teenage girl

"But if a judge rules in favour, and effectively says a lot of people still don’t know that they’ve been victims, this could roll on for many years to come.” Image
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🧵Day 1 of #PrinceHarryVsMGN

1st hand account from the afternoon session in court today.

The barrister for the claimants broke down the practices at the Mirror group of papers.

#PhoneHacking #ToxicBritishMedia #PrinceHarry #ToxicBritishPress
This part was important & difficult to understand. During research for a case involving Sadie Frost a number came up. It led to the discovery of an ‘Orange Platform’. Disclosure was 1st resisted by Mirror group. They said it wouldn’t show anything.
Disclosure revealed that 13,000 calls had been made between 2002 & 2008 via the ‘Orange Platform’. Hacker calls were untraceable as incoming calls & some hackers used burner phones.
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#InCaseYouMissedIt
#PhoneHacking the first time around.
History is condemned to repeat itself. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
#InCaseYouMissedIt
‘Allegations that News International journalists were involved in hacking people's phones for information led to the closure of the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid in 2011 and a trial costing reportedly up to £100m.’

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-248944…
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