Hugh Grant Join the chorus calling for a police investigation into criminality in News Group Newspapers (NGN) after this week High-profile settlement and apology with Prince Harry.
Show on BBC today The This Morning programme, the BAFTA award-winning star and board director Hacked The campaign group said the “purpose” of Harry’s initial case and Grant’s 2024 case against NGN was to spark a “new criminal investigation” against NGN, but both fell through the legal system of the UK civil courts.
He said the job had not been done “by any means” since Harry’s settlement, coming after Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne said the prince and fellow complainant Tom Watson “join others in calling for the police and Parliament to investigate not only the illegal activity but now finally, finally.” finally finally finally confess [by NGN]but perjury and cover-ups along the way. ”
Harry’s eight-figure settlement came several months later Notting Hill Star Grant settled a privacy claim against NGN. At the time, Grant said he could have faced a bill of up to £10 million ($12.3 million) even if he had won due to the Quirk of the British legal system.
After NGN settled with Harry this week, the company issued an apology and for the first time acknowledged criminal activity in The sunalthough the group immediately confirmed that this was carried out by “private investigators, not journalists.” NGN’s follow-up statement also said the settlement “draws a line under the past and puts an end to this litigation.”
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the BBC about the investigation: “We await any correspondence from interested parties, which we will respond to in due course.”
“It was Harry The case went to trial for several weeksmany including Grant believed that NGN should have defended itself against broader allegations of a privacy cover-up. “The people who give the orders,” Grant noted today [back then] They are still there [at NGN] In positions of great power. “
Grant called for the new Labor government to hold a “Leveson 2” investigation into phone and privacy hacking, but Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has already said this will not happen.
“I have some sympathy for politicians who are terrified of the Murdoch organization and the power to destroy their careers,” said Grant, for whom a Bafta nomination was made this year. Heretic. “But that is why we now need leadership from the Prime Minister. If there is a government for anything, especially a Labor government, it is to protect the public from the abuse and crime of big business.”
