{"id":2240794,"date":"2026-01-19T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2240794"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:06:22","slug":"prince-harry-v-daily-mail-live-publisher-carried-out-systematic-unlawful-information-gathering-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-v-daily-mail-live-publisher-carried-out-systematic-unlawful-information-gathering-court-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry v Daily Mail live: Publisher carried out &#8216;systematic&#8217; unlawful information gathering, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"asset:41a5a035-c4e1-440e-af4a-0eae125291ef\">\n<header class=\"ssrcss-1p40248-Header e14e9ror5\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1de7kuz-HeadingContainer e14e9ror1\"><\/p>\n<h3 type=\"normal\" class=\"ssrcss-sgxsay-Heading e10rt3ze0\"><span role=\"text\" class=\"ssrcss-189b1h2-HeadlineWrap e14e9ror2\"><span>This is just the start &#8211; statement alone stretches to 180 pages<\/span><span class=\"ssrcss-etauer-ServerSideTime e14e9ror0\"><span data-testid=\"timestamp\" class=\"ssrcss-umer6k-Timestamp ekpio9q4\"><span data-testid=\"accessible-timestamp\" class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">published at 11:51 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ssrcss-crgz56-Time ekpio9q2\">11:51 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/header>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><span class=\"ssrcss-118oapy-ImageWrapper etflsgg1\"><span class=\"ssrcss-jjv0lx-Placeholder etlorgc0\"><\/span><\/span><span><strong>Tom Symonds<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from the High Court<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening statement document accuses the current Royal<br \/>\nEditor of the Daily Mail Rebecca English of &#8220;obtaining the exact plane<br \/>\nseats, flight times and travel plans of Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry\u2019s<br \/>\nex-girlfriend, in December 2007&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This, the document says, can only have been unlawfully<br \/>\nobtained through Mike Behr, a private investigator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another journalist accused is Stephen Wright, a veteran<br \/>\nDaily Mail crime correspondent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He appears on invoice records of Christine Hart, a<br \/>\nwell-known blagger, as well as making payments of thousands in cash for &#8216;special contacts re Stephen Lawrence&#8217; and &#8216;special inquiries&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is a reference to the claims of Baroness Doreen<br \/>\nLawrence that the paper targeted her during a period when it was supporting her<br \/>\ncampaign for justice for Stephen Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These are among journalists accused in the opening pages of<br \/>\nthe claimant&#8217;s case statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s worth noting that this is only the start of the case &#8211;<br \/>\nthis document alone stretches to 180 pages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-v0hwvi-AlternateVoice e1geeobk0\">The Daily Mail&#8217;s publishers have<br \/>\ndenied all wrongdoing and will be given opportunity to respond to the claims as<br \/>\nthe case progresses.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just the start &#8211; statement alone stretches to 180 pagespublished at 11:51 GMT 11:51 GMT Tom SymondsReporting from the High Court The opening statement document accuses the current Royal Editor of the Daily Mail Rebecca English of &#8220;obtaining the exact plane seats, flight times and travel plans of Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry\u2019s ex-girlfriend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prince-Harry-v-Daily-Mail-live-Publisher-carried-out-systematic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240796,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240794\/revisions\/2240796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}