By Zain Ali Khan:
Prince Harry feels he has “endured a sustained campaign of attacks against him” because he “had the temerity to stand up” to the Daily Mail’s publisher, a court has been told.
David Sherborne, for the Duke of Sussex, said that efforts by him and his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy were “entirely frustrated” by unlawful acts by private investigators working for Associated Newspapers Limited.
This includes one article containing travel plans for a holiday in Africa, with an investigator paid for Ms Davy’s flight details and seat number.
On Monday, the publisher’s lawyers denied the accusations and claimed that Harry and other celebrities bringing legal action had “leaky” social circles.
The second day of the trial into alleged unlawful information gathering for the publication of stories about the claimants has resumed on Tuesday morning, with the Duke of Sussex telling the court on Monday that it was “disturbing to feel that my every move, thought or feeling was being tracked”.
Harry, Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence, politician Sir Simon Hughes, and actresses Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley all allege Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) had a practice of “clear systematic and sustained use of unlawful information gathering”.
This included hiring private investigators, “blagging” medical records and flight details, and accessing phone conversations.
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