Prince Harry testifies at hacking trial: Strange phone activity ‘never stopped’
Prince Harry noticed strange activity on his cell phone “from the moment” he had one, he claimed Wednesday during his phone-hacking trial against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.
“It never stopped,” Harry said at the London High Court. “I remember a lot of missed calls that lasted one second, I remember a lot of people asking me, ‘Did you get my voicemail?’”
Wednesday marked the second day of testimony from Harry, who claims Mirror Group Newspapers broke the law in its gathering of information about him. His lawsuit references 33 articles.
Harry described feeling dubious about reports published about him between 1996 and 2011.
“I believe that phone hacking was at an industrial scale across at least three of the papers at the time,” Harry said. “That is beyond any doubt.”
The publishers’ legal team has denied the British publisher hacked Harry’s phone and challenged his contention that articles caused him distress if he couldn’t remember reading them.
“Most of the articles I don’t remember seeing,” Harry replied. “Most of them were equally distressing then and more distressing today going through this process.”
The trial began last month, with Harry’s lawyer accusing the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People of “widespread and habitual” illegal actions.
Mirror Group Newspapers has settled numerous accusations of unlawful information-gathering, spending about $125 million.
Harry has repeatedly been critical of the British media, and has two more hacking-related lawsuits that haven’t gone to trial.
With News Wire Services
