Prince Harry wins phone hacking lawsuit against tabloid

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex has been awarded £140,600 following his phone hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

The 39-year-old sued MGN for damages, claiming journalists at its titles – the Daily and Sunday Mirror and Sunday People – were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception, and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.

In a High Court ruling on Friday (December 15), Mr Justice Fancourt, the judge who oversaw a trial of the claims earlier this year, said there was “extensive” phone hacking by the tabloid from 2006 to 2011, “even to some extent” during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.

He said Harry's phone was probably hacked “to a modest extent” by the newspaper, adding there was a tendency by the Duke to assume everything was a result of hacking.