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Evening Standard
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Laura Elston

Private investigator boasted: We can get the Queen’s medical records, court told

Queen Elizabeth II at Sandringham in 2022 (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

A private investigator who allegedly harvested confidential information for the publisher of the Mail used to boast he could get hold of Queen Elizabeth II’s medical records, the High Court has heard.

Jonathan Rees, who operated Southern Investigations, took part in phone tapping, computer and phone hacking, bribing police officers and a “whole range of other unlawful activities”, it has been alleged.

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