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It’s Day Two of Prince Harry v Mirror Group Newspapers and Barrister David Sherborne is continuing his opening #PrinceHarry
Prince Harry’s barrister says one of the “most seriously troubling features” of this case is those at the highest level of MGN management “were well aware of what was going on”.
Court hears Piers Morgan and MGN lawyers “knew full well” that Prince Michael of Kent’s financial information was “obtained unlawfully and that the criminal law had in fact been breached”
Barrister is referring to a Daily Mirror front-page story entitled “PRINCE’S BANK CRISIS” which revealed Prince Michael of Kent had unauthorised overdraft of £220,000 and was £2.5m in debt to his bank.
MGN later agreed to publish an apology to Prince Michael and pay his legal costs. It’s claimed Piers Morgan and lawyers knew private financial information had been unlawfully obtained by a PI and therefore had to settle - as couldn’t rely on or reveal ‘source’ of information
Court hears example of 2005 article published in The People about David Beckham and his former nanny, Abbie Gibson. It revealed #DavidBeckham had left a series of abusive voicemail messages on her mobile phone.
It’s claimed story was gleaned by "screwing," i.e. hacking, into the nanny’s voicemails.
Less than a month later MGN paid David Beckham substantial damages “because it knew it could not produce the evidence of tapped mobile phones in any litigation.”
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