He claims that the group's journalists and private investigators conducted extensive phone hacking, obtained private information through deception, and carried out illicit acts to gather information about individuals.
MJ, on the other hand, contests Harry's claims and denies that senior figures were aware of any wrongdoing. MGN also argues that some of the lawsuits were filed too late. The judge is questioning why Harry's friends are not testifying. The reason is that Harry is lying.
A source from Taunt Inskip revealed that Harry has been trying to contact his old friends, including Inskip, who was blacklisted from Prince Harry's wedding after suggesting that Harry should not marry Megan too quickly.
Harry attempted to convince them to appear in court as witnesses for his case, but no one responded, and some even blocked any further contact with Prince Harry. There is no concrete evidence presented on Harry's side, and no one came forward to testify for him, not even his wife, Megan.
I remember that Harry lost all of his friends when he and Megan got married. Of course, they didn't like Megan. Who does? This time, Harry is likely to lose the case. Good luck, Harry. Harry claims that 140 stories published in MGN's papers were the result of phone hacking or other unlawful behavior.
However, the trial is only considering 33 of those articles. His lawyer argues that the intrusion led to the breakdown of his relationship with his then-girlfriend, Chelsea Davey. Other documents released at the beginning of the trial show that MGN admitted to instructing private investigators to unlawfully gather information about three individuals involved in the test cases, including Harry on one occasion.
However, Harry lacks evidence to prove that he was a victim of phone hacking by journalists, as stories about his private life were secretly leaked by Royal press officers. He alleges that his behavior was condoned by senior executives like Piers Morgan.
MGN acknowledges that it employed a private investigator on one occasion to illegally gather information on Harry, but it insists that most of its stories were obtained legally. The company argues that Harry has no grounds to claim that his voicemails were hacked by Mirror journalists.
Andrew Green, the company's barrister, stated that just because other celebrities had their phones hacked by MGN doesn't mean that Harry was targeted in the same manner. He claims that the evidence presented by the prince is either weak or completely non-existent.
Instead, the newspaper publisher suggests that its stories about Harry originated from Royal sources. MGN's lawyers propose that the real source of the story was likely King Charles' former press chief, Mark Balland, who had a close personal relationship with Piers Morgan, involving regular calls, meals, and drinking sessions together.
The newspaper group implies that Harry should blame his father's aides for invading his privacy rather than journalists. "The prince resides in Montecito now with Megan," I'm a little surprised," said Justice Timothy Fancourt, noting that he had instructed Harry to be present on the first day of the trial, but Harry was absent.
