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Sitting in a packed courtroom as barristers are about to begin opening speeches dealing with #PrinceHarry case against Mirror Group Newspapers.
The publisher is accused of “widespread and habitual” phone hacking and blagging causing him “huge bouts of depression and paranoia”
The publisher is accused of “widespread and habitual” phone hacking and blagging causing him “huge bouts of depression and paranoia”
Prince Harry is due at court tomorrow - the first time in more than a century that a senior Royal will enter the witness box
The Duke of Sussex flew in yesterday evening from LA after attending his daughter’s birthday.
There’s discussion in court about when #PrinceHarry will arrive. His barrister says his “travel & security arrangements make it trickier”. He’s expected here tomorrow to give evidence
There’s discussion in court about when #PrinceHarry will arrive. His barrister says his “travel & security arrangements make it trickier”. He’s expected here tomorrow to give evidence
The defence barrister says he needs a full day and a half to cross-examine the Duke of Sussex about 33 Mirror Group Newspaper articles allegedly the product of phone hacking and blagging
Barrister for #PrinceHarry says his claim is “very significant” relating to a 15 year period between 1996-2011 representing the “broadest range of unlawful activity”.
He says Mirror Group Newspapers used 30 different Private Investigators to unlawfully gather his private information because the “ends justified the means”
Court hears even when Prince Harry was a teenager “every facet of his private life” was published “in full technicolour glory” because stories about his private life drove sales
Mirror Group Newspapers have in the past admitted and apologised for phone hacking - but admit just one case of unlawful information gathering against Prince Harry in 2004 for an article about him at a nightclub.
But Prince Harry’s barrister says it’s “plainly implausible” that there was only once instance - arguing that he was the “one of the most written about individuals” and was hacked “multiple times” by journalists whose “modus operandi” was unlawful activity
Prince Harry’s barrister tells the court even when he was “a schoolboy”, even after the death of his mother, then his time at Sandhurst and as a young adult - “nothing was sacrosanct”.
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