AMMAN – A British tabloid has apologized to Prince Harry for illegally seeking information about him, at the start of a court case Harry has filed against the newspaper’s publisher, in which he is scheduled to testify personally.
Harry, 38, and nearly 100 celebrities, including actors, sports stars, singers and television personalities, are suing Mirror Group News Papers, accusing them of accessing private information through phone hacking, fraud and other illegal means between 1991 and 2011.
Prosecutors say the illegal behavior within the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People took place with the full knowledge of senior executives, who they say failed to stop it and worked to obscure it.
The group denies the accusations, saying some of the allegations were made too long after they occurred, that there is no evidence that Harry was a victim of the hack, and that senior officials were not aware of any illegal actions.
However, the group, according to documents submitted to the High Court in London, admitted on one occasion that it had contracted a private investigator to illegally collect information on him in a nightclub in 2004, saying that it “expressly apologizes and accepts that (Harry) is entitled to obtain appropriate compensation.” “.
Harry was not present at the start of the session. He is scheduled to testify in early June, to be the first member of the British royal family to do so since the nineteenth century, according to local media.
Sky News
