Prince Harry, phone hacking and the executives who knew
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Justice Fancourt ruled that 15 out of a selection of 33 stories written about Harry by the paper were obtained through illegal breaches of privacy, and that senior executives at the company “turned a blind eye.”
On the Sky News Daily, Sam Washington talks to Sky’s royal correspondent Laura Bundock and media management lawyer Jonathan Coad about what this ruling means for the Prince – as well as the media industry.
Producer: Alex Edden
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.3 | Hello, I'm Sam Washington. I'm in for Neil Patterson today on Sky News Daily. |
| 1:07.6 | Today we are at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Prince Harry has claimed victory |
| 1:14.6 | against one of Britain's biggest news publishers, the Mirror Group. The High Court judge has |
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