Owner of The Sun settles High Court case with Prince Harry and Labour peer Tom Watson over historic allegations

THE proprietor of The Sun contiguous settled a High Court lawsuit with Prince Harry and the Labour adjacent Lord Watson implicit humanities allegations.

The statement brings to an extremity ineligible proceedings which dated backmost betwixt 14 and 30 years.

As portion of the presumption of the settlement, News Group Newspapers offered an apology to the Duke of Sussex for intrusion into his backstage beingness by The Sun betwixt 1996 and 2011.

NGN besides offered an apology to Lord Watson for intrusion into his backstage beingness during his clip successful Government by the now-defunct News of the World during the play 2009- 2011. [Damages volition besides beryllium paid to some men].

The judge, Mr Justice Fancourt, had repeatedly urged some sides to question a resolution.

In October, helium warned that the lawsuit was taking up “more than an appropriate” magnitude of tribunal time.

The proceedings had been expected to past up to 10 weeks, with Harry giving grounds implicit respective days.

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, had antecedently indicated helium would not settee the lawsuit arsenic taking it to proceedings was astir "accountability".

In a statement, a spokesperson for NGN said: "Our apology to the Duke of Sussex includes an apology for incidents of unlawful activities carried retired by backstage investigators moving for The Sun, not by journalists, during the play 1996-2011.

"There are beardown controls and processes successful spot astatine each our titles contiguous to guarantee this cannot hap now. There was nary voicemail interception connected The Sun."

The connection went on: "After much than a decennary of litigation, and 14 years since the News of the World closed down, today’s colony draws a enactment nether the past and brings an extremity to this litigation.

"The Sun contiguous tin look the aboriginal and proceed its arrogant grounds of award-winning nationalist involvement journalism, investigations and campaigning connected behalf of its readers."

Harry has pursued a bid of ineligible cases against the media and others.

In 2023 helium won a lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) implicit a telephone hacking claim.

He is besides suing Associated Newspapers, proprietor of the Daily Mail, for alleged unlawful accusation gathering. ANL denies immoderate wrongdoing.

Harry has besides been progressive successful a long-running ineligible enactment against the Home Office implicit the information arrangements for himself and his household erstwhile they are successful the UK.