Prince Harry is on a mission. ‘How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness’?’ Harry asks of journalists in his witness statement in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). After the prince became the first member of the royal family to give evidence in court in 132 years this morning, he was asked what he meant and whether he was there to ‘put a stop to this madness’.
‘That is my hope,’ he replied.
The royal claims MGN used unlawful methods, including phone hacking, to get stories dating back to the 1990s about him. ‘I would constantly be leaving and receiving voicemails, as text messaging was much less common back then,’ he told the court. Harry says in his statement he remembers ‘hearing a voicemail for the first time that wasn’t new’.
‘I now understand their significance in terms of phone hacking.
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