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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Former Mail on Sunday journalist denies being PI ‘handler’ at high court

Gavin Burrows, a private investigator who is at the centre of a legal action against Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Henderson is accused of having had a close relationship with Gavin Burrows, a private investigator who is at the centre of a legal action against Associated Newspapers Ltd. Photograph: BBC

A former Mail on Sunday journalist has denied being the “handler” of a private investigator alleged to have bugged homes and tapped the phones of his targets, the high court has heard.

Paul Henderson, who was the Mail on Sunday’s investigations editor and briefly its news editor, said it was surreal to be described as having a close relationship with Gavin Burrows, a private investigator whose disputed confessions provide the most serious accusations of unlawful information gathering against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.

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