The ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse faced “completely inhumane” press intrusion after her cancer diagnosis, she has told the High Court in her claim against the publisher of the Mirror.
Fiona Wightman is one of several people suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) who claim journalists at its titles – The Daily and Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People – were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.
