![]() ![]() Harry’s claim is being heard alongside three other “representative” claims during a trial which began last month and is due to last six to seven weeks. “The letters you were shown, to Michael Barrymore, are not evidence of voicemail interception,” Mr Green said, adding that “plainly no such finding could be made”. He told the court: “Mr Sherborne’s suggestion that MGN’s journalists hacked her phone is total speculation without any evidential basis whatsoever.” The barrister also said a suggestion that its journalists had hacked the phone of the late Diana, Princess of Wales was “total speculation”. Mr Green later said the duke faced “a very difficult starting point for the claimant proving he was habitually hacked”. He also said that there was a lack of call data in Harry’s case, telling the court: “There is no call data whatsoever for the Duke of Sussex and scant call data for his associates.” He said that payment records used in the duke’s claim “simply do not demonstrate unlawful conduct or knowledge thereof”. The barrister said: “The defendant’s position is that there is simply no evidence capable of supporting the finding that the Duke of Sussex was hacked, let alone on a habitual basis.” However, Andrew Green KC, for MGN, said Harry’s claim had “become rather fantastical”. He read out two letters from Diana to entertainer Michael Barrymore, which referred to private meetings between the pair, and in one of the letters Diana referred to being “devastated” to learn that the “Daily Mirror” had contacted her office about him and their meetings. ![]() Mr Sherborne also said the late Diana, Princess of Wales was a “huge target” for MGN’s newspapers, adding that certain alleged unlawful activities in relation to her would have also affected Harry. “Brothers can sometimes disagree,” Mr Sherborne continued, adding: “But once it is made public in this way and their inside feelings revealed in the way that they are, trust begins to be eroded.” The court was later told that a 2003 article detailed an alleged row between the duke and his brother William, now the Prince of Wales, over their mother’s former butler, Paul Burrell. ![]()
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