Editor of @TheSun Victoria Newton is under fire for @JeremyClarkson hate speech on Megan Markle - but few know that Newton is also facing allegations of industrial scale PHONE HACKING at the High Court.
@TheSun@JeremyClarkson The Sun’s Editor-In-Chief Targeted Liz Hurley and Steve Bing With Allegedly ‘Hacked’ Stories – In Her Previous Job at the Daily Mail
News UK boss Rebekah Brooks is under fire for her close friend @JeremyClarkson hate speech on Megan Markle - but few know that Brooks is also facing allegations of industrial scale PHONE HACKING and DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE at the High Court.
EXCLUSIVE: The Mail on Sunday Defence characterised text messages from Harry and Meghan to Thomas Markle as being uncaring and self-serving. The Duchess says it “intentionally” omitted any references to the Royal couple’s attempts to protect Mr Markle and ensure his safety 1/21
EXCLUSIVE: To counter the Defence allegation, the Duchess has taken the step of revealing the full contents of a key period of text exchanges with Mr Markle.
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EXCLUSIVE: In one series, sent May 14, 2018, Harry, using his wife’s phone, urges his father-in-law-to-be to beware getting in to bed with the Press, which - he says - “created this whole situation”. 3/21
EXCLUSIVE: Byline Investigates can reveal the #DuchessofSussex has filed her response to the #MailonSunday’s Defence in her legal action over its publication of a private letter she sent her father Thomas Markle before her wedding to #PrinceHarry 1/12
BREAKING: The 30-plus page, approx 9,000-word,document will take a wrecking ball to the newspaper’s publishers own 44-page case which seeks to justify allegations of misuse of #duchessmeghan's private information,breach of Data Protection Rights and infringement of copyright 2/12
The Duchess's filing will accuse Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) of trying to “attack and intimidate” her in “the Defence and in print”, adding to distress of it publishing a “deeply private communication” that ANL itself called “a moving letter to her estranged father” 3/12
So we've given you a sample of 'Byline Investigations in the Mail in the last year. Here's our thread on what we've discovered about Murdoch. Most recent first
1. According to Sunday Times whistleblower John Ford, Tony Blair's key government decision-makers were under surveillance, with his targets including the Prime Minister himself, his wife Cherie, and one of their children.
2. Former actor, writer and comedian John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to unlawfully obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory phone numbers and penetrate private financial material.