{"id":378529,"date":"2026-01-19T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378529\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:04:09","slug":"prince-harry-v-daily-mail-live-publisher-carried-out-systematic-unlawful-information-gathering-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378529\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry v Daily Mail live: Publisher carried out ‘systematic’ unlawful information gathering, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigator provided information for story about Queen’s cousin, lawyer arguespublished at 14:18 GMT<\/p>\n

14:18 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Imogen James
Reporting from the High Court<\/p>\n

After the break, David Sherborne begins by discussing
\nprivate investigator John Ross, a former Metropolitan police officer.<\/p>\n

Ross was paid on a number of occasions for a number of
\nstories, Sherborne alleges.<\/p>\n

Sherborne brings up an email now, sent in 2011. It was a
\nlist compiled by Mail on Sunday managing editor John Wellington, sent to Liz
\nHartley in their legal department, that shows a table of payments to John Ross.<\/p>\n

Sherborne alleges the evidence confirms that Ross was
\nproviding information from his “corrupt connections” to police
\nofficers.<\/p>\n

He cites one payment of \u00a31,000 on 1 November 2001, titled
\n‘[redacted] cousin burgles’.<\/p>\n

This was, he writes, about an ongoing investigation into a
\nburglary at the home of the second cousin to the Queen.<\/p>\n

Sherborne’s written argument says it can be inferred this
\nwas an unlawful payment to a police officer for information, from both the
\ntitle of the invoice and the fact the Mail on Sunday published an article the
\nsame day headlined: “Robbers target Queen’s cousin for second time”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigator provided information for story about Queen’s cousin, lawyer arguespublished at 14:18 GMT 14:18 GMT Imogen JamesReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}