Court shown documents barrister says demonstrate ‘enormous number’ of illegal activities commissioned by Mirror Group Newspapers
Sherborne presents documents he says show an “enormous number” of illegal activities being commissioned by Mirror Group Newspapers.
He lists several occasions when the group paid companies run by Jonathan Rees, who was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice in 1999, to carry out investigations on behalf of its various newspapers.
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Sherborne also raises the case of David and Victoria Beckham, who he says the People newspaper accused of waging a hate campaign in phone calls to his children’s former nanny.
Once again, he says, the paper immediately capitulated when they complained because its staff knew the story was based on illegally obtained information.
He quotes a People journalist David Brown as saying lots of stories were sourced by…
This article was written by Kevin Rawlinson and originally published on www.theguardian.com