The Duke of Sussex has reached a settlement with News Group Newspapers, ending his five-year legal battle over unlawful information-gathering by “The Sun”. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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00:00The Duke of Sussex has reached a settlement with News Group Newspapers ending his five-year
00:05legal battle over unlawful information gathering by The Sun.
00:09This settlement follows a lengthy legal process, with Prince Harry's barrister, David Sherborne,
00:15announcing that NGN has offered an apology and agreed to pay substantial damages.
00:20I've been asked to read out a statement on behalf of the Duke of Sussex and Lord Watson.
00:27In a monumental victory today, News UK have admitted that The Sun, the flagship title
00:35for Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire, has indeed engaged in illegal practices.
00:42Prince Harry's statement highlighted the findings of the case, revealing that NGN had employed
00:47over 100 private investigators over 16 years, engaging in unlawful surveillance on more
00:53than 35,000 occasions.
00:56After endless resistance, denials and legal battles by News Group Newspapers, including
01:03spending more than a billion pounds in payouts and in legal costs, as well as paying off
01:09those in the know in order to prevent the full picture from coming out, News UK is finally
01:16held to account for its illegal actions and its blatant disregard for the law.
01:22The settlement follows a significant apology from NGN, which admitted serious privacy intrusions,
01:28including phone hacking and surveillance, between 1996 and 2011.