Police waiting for correspondence from parties in newspaper intrusion case

The Metropolitan Police are waiting to perceive from the parties progressive successful the High Court conflict betwixt the Duke of Sussex, erstwhile Labour person Lord Tom Watson and the steadfast of The Sun.

Lord Watson questioned whether the caput of the force, Sir Mark Rowley, volition instrumentality enactment erstwhile helium receives a dossier of accusation linked to the case.

The Labour adjacent and Harry reached a colony with News Group Newspapers (NGN) connected Wednesday implicit claims they had been targeted by journalists and investigators instructed by them earlier 2011.

Speaking extracurricular tribunal connected Wednesday, Lord Watson said: “To Sir Mark Rowley – erstwhile you person our dossier exposing wrongdoing, volition the Metropolitan Police act?

“To the Prime Minister – I cognize you attraction profoundly astir fairness successful the law, but are we truly consenting to proceed arsenic a state wherever immoderate executives are supra the instrumentality and retired of the scope of the police?”

The Met carried retired an extended probe into claims of telephone hacking astatine the present defunct News of the World, which began successful January 2011 and came to a adjacent successful December 2015.

Operation Weeting saw 12 erstwhile members of paper unit charged and taken to court.

Three were cleared – lawman exertion Neil Wallis, retired managing exertion Stuart Kuttner and ex-editor Rebekah Brooks – and one, erstwhile exertion Andy Coulson, who went connected to go David Cameron’s rotation doctor, was recovered blameworthy by a jury. The remaining 8 pleaded guilty.

The colony reached connected Wednesday was implicit “serious intrusion” by The Sun into Harry’s backstage beingness betwixt 1996 and 2011 including unlawful activities carried retired by backstage investigators employed by the newspaper, arsenic good arsenic telephone hacking and surveillance by the News of the World.

NGN besides apologised to Lord Watson for intrusion betwixt 2009 and 2011, but denied having hacked his phone.

On Wednesday, aft the settlement, the Met said determination is nary existent probe into telephone hacking oregon related claims.

A unit spokesperson said: “We are alert of the result of the civilian proceedings.

“It remains the lawsuit that determination are nary progressive constabulary investigations into allegations of telephone hacking oregon related matters.

“We await immoderate correspondence from the parties involved, which we volition respond to successful owed course.”