London police said they would “thoroughly review” the court’s findings that Prince Harry was the victim of phone hacking and other illegal activities by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors.
King Charles’ youngest son, who became the first senior member of the British royal family to testify in court in 130 years when he appeared in court in June, was awarded 140,600 pounds ($178,000) on Friday after a judge agreed he had been targeted by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers.
A spokeswoman for London’s police force said it would “carefully review” the decision in the civil case, adding: “There is no ongoing investigation.”
After stepping down from royal duties in 2020 and moving to California with his American wife, Meghan, the Duke of Sussex has made it his mission to rid the British press of what he accuses of being “criminals masquerading as journalists,” especially top- managers and editors. .
The court ruling said editors who knew about the “widespread” wrongdoing included prominent broadcaster Piers Morgan, editor of the Daily Mirror from 1996 to 2004, who became a leading critic of Harry and Meghan.
Morgan later angrily denied knowing about the phone hacking while working as an editor.
