The Duke of Sussex and Baroness Doreen Lawrence have described the High Court’s dismissal of their unlawful information gathering claims against the Daily Mail’s publisher as a “complete and obvious whitewash”.
A group of household names, also including Sir Elton John and David Furnish, alleged acts including voicemail interception, landline tapping and obtaining information by deception, also known as “blagging”, were carried out by private investigators, freelance journalists and staff at Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).
