He extensive interrogation Prince Henry in the trial against the ‘Mirror’ group ended this Wednesday with more doubts than certainties. The lack of irrefutable evidence to show that the telephone number of the prince and those close to him was flatbed for years has left the judgment of the case in the air, which is still pending appearance of other witnesses. The Duke of Sussex, visibly more relaxed on the second day of the declaration, has again raised doubts about the way in which journalists from publications such as the ‘Daily Mirror’ and the ‘Sunday Mirror’ they obtained information about his personal life. Some suspicions that the defense of the media group has tried to deny, reeling off one by one all 33 items presented to the court.
The lawyer of the ‘Mirror’ (MGN, in its acronym in English), Andrew Greenhas insisted throughout the more than seven hours of interrogation that Enrique’s accusations are based on a “total speculation & rdquor;. The lawyer has recalled that there is no record in which an alleged intervention of the telephones is recorded and has influenced the fact that the prince i can’t remember specific telephone messages whose content was subsequently published in a news item. According to MGN’s defense, much of the information was previously published in other media, while in other cases it came from sources close to Enrique and from spokespersons for the British royal family.
suspicious information
Enrique has been unable to refute the arguments of Green in some of the articles, but it has raised more doubts in other cases. One of them refers to a trip to Mozambique with his then partner, Chelsy Davey, in which, according to the prince, no one could know how long he was going to stay there, since the royal house did not provide the details for security reasons. Enrique maintains that the ‘Mirror’ newspapers published information on the dates and times of the flights, while in other cases they revealed details about their relationship with Davy that no spokesperson for the royal family could know, despite the fact that the journalists who wrote the story cited palace sources.
The Prince’s Lawyer David Sherbornehas denied that the espionage accusations are based on speculation and has given as an example the payments to private investigators carried out by journalists from the ‘Mirror’ group on the dates of publication of the articles investigated. Enrique himself has insisted that there is sufficient evidence: “I certainly believe that my phone was tapped industrially by three large newspapers during this time,” said the prince, referring to the period in which the news was published, between 1996 and 2011. The Duke of Sussex maintains that only in this way could the tabloids know where he was going to be, as well as the content of private conversations, and points out that there has been a “destruction of evidence on a large scale & rdquor;.
all-out fight
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The interrogation of the last two days has been a sample of the fight than Enrique has proposed to carry out against the British tabloids, which he accuses of provoking him significant psychological damage and to generate enormous distrust towards the people around them. The case against the ‘Mirror’ group will foreseeably extend to two other important media groups, the owners of the ‘Daily Mail’ and those of ‘The Sun’whose cases are still in preliminary phase. The prince has indicated that the battle against the press will be “his life’s work & rdquor; and he intends to take it to its ultimate consequences, taking advantage of his separation from the British royal family. “The palace would not have allowed me take legal action& rdquor ;, he has assured.
The Enrique’s lawyers They trust that the precedent of three months ago, when the ‘Daily Mirror’ publicly apologized for having spied on him on another occasion, will help the judge Timothy Fancourt make a similar decision this time. Recognition by the judge of illegal activities in any of the 33 articles investigated would mean a Hard hit for MGN and would serve as a reference for future compensation in other similar cases. For now, Prince Harry and another hundred people represented in the accusation have already they have cast the first stone in a trial that, regardless of the outcome, is already UK history.