2023-06-08 11:02:00
Prince Harry said the hacking of phones had taken place on a massive scale in the British press and that he would feel aggrieved if the High Court in London ruled that he was not a victim.
Harry, the first high-ranking member of the British royal family to appear as a witness in court in more than 130 years, was questioned for a second day over his allegations that British tabloids used illegal means to target him since he was a child..
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The prince has appeared more resistant at times in difficult discussions with Andrew Green, a lawyer for Mirror Group (MGN), publishers of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, who are suing him and 100 other people over allegations they illegally collected information between 1991 and 2011.
At trial, the plaintiffs allege that MGN’s senior editors and executives knew about the phone hacks and approved and instructed private investigators to obtain information by deception..
Green said there was no cell phone data indicating Harikan was a victim of the phone hack and compared it to a 2005 police investigation that led to the conviction of the former royal affairs editor at News of the World, which was owned by Rupert Murdoch and is now defunct. Green asked the prince, who is the fifth In line to the British throne, he said: “If the court found that your phone had not been hacked by any journalist in the group, would you be relieved or disappointed?“.
Harry replied: “That’s…speculation… I think the phone hacks were on a massive scale across at least three newspapers at the time and that’s beyond doubt. To have a decision against me and my claims, given that the Mirror Group Grubb has accepted hacking,… yeah, I’d feel a bit unfair“.
Responding to Green’s suggestion that Harry wanted to be a victim, the prince said: “Nobody wants their phone hacked“، Last month, the Mirror Group’s seven-week trial began at the High Court in London.
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