British royal family news reveals that the High Court released more information today in the London court case brought by Prince Harry, Elton John and others against Associated Newspapers.
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Among the data was a statement by private investigator Gavin Burrows who denies illegally gathering information for the Daily Mail or the Mail on Sunday.
The denial is contained in his signed statement to the court which reads in part: “I wish to make clear that I was never instructed or commissioned by anyone at the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail to conduct unlawful information gathering on their behalf.”
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Yet, other statements claim that Burrows provided “unlawfully obtained information” to the Mail on Sunday from 2000 to 2007.
Burrows responded in his signed statement: “This is false. I was never instructed or commissioned by the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail to conduct unlawful information gathering on their behalf.”
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“I was also never asked to target or conduct unlawful information gathering on any of the high-profile individuals listed above by the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail. In conclusion, I wish to make clear that I was never instructed or commissioned by anyone at the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail to conduct unlawful information gathering on their behalf.”
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Burrows statement includes a signed declaration and if that is shown to be false he could be held in contempt of court.
In addition to Prince Harry, the other plaintiffs include Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, actresses Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley.
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Baroness Doreen Lawrence is the mother of murder victim Stephen Lawrence. According to the Daily Mail, “She has said that she received a message from ‘a member of the group’ bringing claims against the newspapers, and agreed to a meeting with two lawyers who told her that ‘what had surfaced about me had happened accidentally through a conversation between two private investigators’ who she was told had worked for the Mail.” The two men were Burrows and Jonathan Rees who, “had recently confessed to carrying out a wide range of criminal activities aimed at secretly stealing and exploiting information from victims’ and were instructed by Mail newspapers, she said.”
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