The reputation and fate of British right-wing tabloid The Daily Mail, plus its Scottish and Irish versions, as well as “Mail on line” and “Mail on Sunday”. in the hands of British justice. A judicial process will investigate and question his journalistic ethics, his methods of getting the scoops and the use of illegal celebrity wiretapping and royalties for information.
Prince Harry, the son of the King of England, singer Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, the mother of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, killed in a racist attack in 1993, and others, legal action was taken against the editor of the Daily Mail newspaper, citing wiretapping and other violations of privacy.
The group includes actresses elizabeth hurley and Sadie Frost and the couple and director of Elton John, David Arreda. But there are more victims, which will be revealed at the trial.
Associated Newspapers, the editor behind the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, He denied the allegations unfounded” and will defend himself in court.
The fall of The News of the World
Faced with similar accusations, the News of the World newspaperthen the kingdom’s best seller and belonging to News International of the Murdoch Group, It’s disappeared.
The Mail editors dismissed the allegations as “absurd defamation” and an “orchestrated attempt” to drag the Mail into the wiretapping scandal, which has engulfed rival tabloids. He said there was no “credible evidence” to support the allegations.
evidence and privacy
Whistleblowers are aware of evidence indicating privacy violations by Associated Newspapers. “This includes positioning of the device listening within the cars and houses of people, as well as wiretapping live private, “Hamlins law firm said in a statement.
Hamlins represents Prince Harry and Frost, while Lawrence, Hurley, John and Furnish are represented by Gunnercooke.
Relations of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Dukes of Sussex, with the British tabloid they separated after marriage in 2018. The couple had previously stated that they would have “zero engagement” with four of the UK’s leading newspapers. including the Daily Mail and The Sunaccusing them of “covering up false and intrusive“.
The couple also cited media intrusion “as an important factor”. his decision to leave royal duties and move to the United States.
The Lawrence case
The lawyers of Lady Doreen Lawrencewhich is part of the House of Lords to be baronessthey accused the Daily Mail of “Abominable criminal activity” , after filing a lawsuit against the newspaper, which fought to bring his son’s killers to justice. At the same time, the Baroness claims that the newspaper listened to her.
The Daily Mail had spearheaded the campaign to bring to justice the killers of Stephen Lawrence, the son of Baroness Lawrence. Stephen was assassinated in 1993, a a racist attack in South East London.
Subsequently, the newspaper portrayed the five main suspects on the front page, under the headline “Homicides”, and invited them to sue for defamation. if we were “wrong”.
Baroness Lawrence is suing the High Court, along with Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and other celebrities for allegations that associated newspapers engaged in “illegal acts”, including hiring private investigators. To install secret listening devices inside people’s cars and homes.
The serious allegations
In a press release issued Thursday by Hamlins, one of the two law firms involved in the lawsuit, the lawyer announced: “A group of individuals filed a lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, editors of The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The Mail online “.
Hamlins said he would lead the action on behalf of Baroness Lawrence, Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, and actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost.
“These people have understood compelling and highly distressing evidence who have been victims of heinous criminal activity and serious privacy violations by Associated Newspapers, “the Hamlins study said.
Hamlins argues that “illegal acts” include “hire private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside people’s cars and homes “and” instruct people to secretly listen and record people’s private and live phone calls as they take place. “
The law firm also claims that Associated Newspapers authorized “payment to police officerswith corrupt ties with private investigators, for privileged and confidential information “and” the theft of the identity of individuals obtain medical information from hospitals, clinics and treatment centers deprived with deception “.
He states it Bank accounts, credit histories and financial transactions were accessed “Through illegal means and manipulations”.
Hamlins suggests that the “alleged crimes represent the tip of the iceberg“and that other people may also be” unwitting victims of such terrible and reprehensible secret acts “.
The mail refuses and refutes
The news group vigorously denied the allegations and accused the lawyers of doing “highly defamatory statements”.
A spokesperson for Associated Newspapers said: “We completely and unequivocally refute this absurd defamation, which appears to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag Mail headlines into the phone hacking scandal, with articles up to 30 years“.
“These unfounded and highly defamatory claims, based on incredible evidencethey appear to be simply a fishing trip by plaintiffs and their lawyers, some of whom have already tried cases elsewhere, “he said.
Details of the claims made by the lawyers have not been made public, including When should events have happened?, nor any supporting evidence. Details of the lawsuit should be filed at a later date.
Could Paul Dacre not be sir?
The allegations sent an electric shock to the British tabloid newsrooms.
In February 2012, the editor of the Daily Mail, the mythical Paolo Dacre tried to distance himself from his articles from the hacking scandal, which cost his rival Rupert Murdoch 1,000 and 3,000 million pounds.
Dacre told Leveson Inquiry, who studied the tabloid’s methodology, that Sunday’s Daily Mail and Mail they didn’t use phone hacking in their articles.
Asked about this in the investigation, Dacre said: “I can be as sure as any publisher, having carried out extensive inquiries into newspaper files and conducted an investigation, that the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail they didn’t. I know this because I gave him my unequivocal guarantees ”.
Giving false or distorted testimony for a public investigation under oath is an accusation that take the jail, pursuant to Section 35 of the Investigation Act.
Hacked Off, a campaign group created in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, suggested in a statement that the allegations occurred during the time Paul Dacre was editor of the Daily Mail. famous publisher. Swiss Post, which is no longer in charge of writing.
It is unclear whether the timing of the filing of the High Court’s lawsuit is related to Dacre’s expected announcement it will be included in the list of political awards and could receive the position of Lord.
Hacked Off said in a statement: “Any plan to give him a seat in the House of Lords must be stopped pending the conclusion of these claims and any subsequent investigation “.
A newspaper of the right, yellow and anti-European
The Daily Mail is a right-wing Eurosceptic tabloid, which lee British lower middle class, especially women. It was founded in 1896 by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. In 1902 its circulation exceeded one million copies.
They became the best seller of the 20th century in the kingdom.
With that audience, the Royal House is forced to have a good connection with the Daily Mail because they are the ones who take care of their daily activities and publish their photos.
That’s why Prince Harry’s trial will take place an impact on relations with Buckingham Palace.
It is the third time that the Dukes of Sussex they attack and win a lawsuit against the Mail since they got married. There is no day that the Mail on Line does not dedicate it a text against him.
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Source: Clarin
