Prince Harry Wins Big In Landmark Phone-Hacking Case Against British Tabloid ‘The Mirror’

Britain’s High Court has sided with Prince Harry in his phone hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group. He was awarded the royal $180,000.

The High Court ruled that Harry’s phone was likely accessed “to a modest extent.” Nearly half of the articles Harry cited as evidence were due to phone hacks, the court said.

Harry made a statement outside the courthouse regarding the case, which was read by his lawyer David Sherbourne. 

“This case is not just about hacking,” the statement read. “It is about a systemic practice of unlawful and appalling behavior, followed by clever-ups and destruction of evidence, the shocking scale of which can only be revealed through these proceedings. The journey to justice can be a slow and painful one and since bringing my claim almost five years ago, defamatory stories and intimidating tactics have been deployed against me and at my family’s expense. And so, as I too have learnt through this process, patience is, in fact, a virtue. Especially, in the face of vendetta journalism.”

The judge ​​ruled that 15 of the 33 articles at the center of Harry’s claim “were the product of phone hacking of his mobile phone or the mobile phones of his associates, or the product of other unlawful information-gathering.”

Harry is currently involved in three other cases against British newspaper publishers.

Harry was recently been embroiled in a controversy over which members of the royal family asked about the skin color of his first child with Meghan Markle.