Ahead of the press trial, an expert appeared to warn Prince Harry that he would “gain very little” from the case against a giant media empire.
His case pitted him against media mogul Rupert Murdoch The sun and the defunct News of the World.
He claimed that people who worked for the tabloids from 1996 to 2011 illegally intruded into his private life, including allegedly obtaining his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy’s flight records.
But Professor Tim Luckhurst, principal of South College at Britain’s Durham University, told Newsweek“I think he spends a great deal of money to achieve very little.”
His comments come as the Duke of Sussexx and a former British lawmaker Tom Watson are the last key teams in their legal action against News Group Newspapers after more than 1,000 cases were settled in the wiretapping scandal.
However, Harry has previously claimed that his motive is the truth, not the money. “It’s annoying to see all this evidence only now,” he said in his 2023 testimony.
“Knowing that we were being tracked, tapped and hacked while trying to have a private relationship [publisher] NGN could print a story and sell a newspaper, it’s unbelievable,’ continued the 40-year-old.
“Methods that should at best be reserved for proper investigative journalism looking at stories of public interest were used on normal, innocent people, and for what?” he remarked.
“Those responsible should be locked up in my opinion as there is no justification and frankly it’s criminal. Any claim or suggestion senior staff were unaware of what their employees/journalists were doing is a blatant lie,” Harry concluded.
