2023-12-15 11:12:42
Published15. December 2023, 12:12
Lawsuit against publisher: Prince Harry wins in court
In the spying trial against the “Mirror” publishing house (MGN), Prince Harry was partly proven right.
1 / 3
The court agrees with Harry.
REUTERS
The younger son of the British King Charles III. accused journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People of spying on him using illegal means.
AFP
Among other things, voice messages on his cell phone were intercepted.
AFP
Prince Harry has won a spying trial against the publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper. The High Court in London awarded him damages of more than 140,000 pounds (155,000 francs) on Friday. Judge Timothy Fancourt found it proven that phone hacking had been “widespread and common” at the Mirror newspaper group over many years and that private investigators were “an integral part of the system” to unlawfully collect information.
The judge said newspaper executives knew about the practice and actively covered it up. If they had intervened, “the misuse of the Duke’s private information would have been stopped much sooner.”
440,000 pounds demanded
Fancourt found that 15 of the 33 newspaper articles at issue in the trial were written using illegal means. However, contrary to what Harry suggested, not everything that was published came from intercepted voice messages, the judge said.
It was the first of several lawsuits that Harry brought against the publisher. The Duke of Sussex had sued for compensation of £440,000. The younger son of King Charles III, who has fallen out with his family, became the first senior royal to testify in court in more than a century in June. He accused “at least three newspapers” of the publisher of phone hacking “on an industrial scale.”
Have you been following on Whatsapp for 20 minutes?
Stay informed and subscribe to the 20 Minutes WhatsApp channel: Then you will receive an update with our most moving stories directly to your cell phone in the morning and evening – hand-picked, informative and inspiring.
(DPA/for)
1702645827
#Lawsuit #publisher #Prince #Harry #wins #court