Court awards Prince Harry $178,000 in compensation for journalists' hacker attack on his phone
Kyiv • UNN
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that Prince Harry was the victim of a phone hack by Mirror Group Newspapers and awarded him about $178,000 in compensation.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, was the victim of phone hacking by journalists from 2006 to 2011 and awarded him compensation of about 178 thousand dollars. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.
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Harry was one of about 100 plaintiffs, including actors, sports stars, celebrities and people who simply had connections to famous people, who sued Mirror Group Newspapers on charges of phone hacking and illegal information gathering between 1991 and 2011.
The judge ruled that 15 articles published by MGN about Prince Harry used illegal methods of gathering information, such as hacking into voicemail messages and using private detectives. In total, 33 articles out of approximately 140 were submitted for review, which he claimed were the result of illegal behavior.
In the end, the aggrieved prince was awarded 140,600 pounds (about 178,000 US dollars).
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