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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Cash Harry

2/17/20265 min

Street Of Shame writer Adam Macqueen updates Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis and Andrew Hunter Murray on the curious background to some of Prince Harry's key witnesses.

Clips

Max Mosley Bankrolled Probe
Follow The Money Chain
Who Got Paid What
Motives Beyond Privacy
Mail In Mosley’s Sights

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Ian Hislop· Host0:00

    We're back in the Private Eye studio, and Adam McQueen has an update for us on the Prince Harry v. The Daily Mail trial of all sorts of invasion of privacy. There have been all sorts of phone hackers having their day in court, as has Prince Harry, and you have an update for us, I believe.

  2. Adam Macqueen· Guest0:13

    I do indeed. I think it was the last podcast about Prince Harry and others' case currently going against the Daily Mail.

  3. Ian Hislop· Host0:18

    Mm.

  4. Adam Macqueen· Guest0:18

    Uh, and one of the big issues in that being payments being made to, uh, lots of witnesses on behalf of the claimants. Do you remember this?

  5. Ian Hislop· Host0:25

    Yes.

  6. Speaker 3· Panelist0:25

    Yes.

  7. Ian Hislop· Host0:25

    Payments for books and things like that.

  8. Adam Macqueen· Guest0:27

    All sorts of things.

  9. Speaker 3· Panelist0:27

    Not directly- Not specifically for their witness statements- Yes.

  10. Ian Hislop· Host0:30

    No ...

  11. Adam Macqueen· Guest0:30

    but for effectively telling those same stories that then appeared in their witness statements in the form of various books published by Graham Johnson, uh, an ex-Sunday Mirror hack and hacker, phone hacker- Right ... convicted phone hacker, who's kind of been specializing in this stuff ever since, with the help of Hacked Off. So much, so, the word hack appears so many times, [laughs] doesn't it? We can't need any more. Hacked Off, the, uh, the sort of, uh, I like to re-refer to them as the anti-press campaigners, who were led for a while by Evan Harris, uh, the, uh, former Lib Dem MP. Both Johnson and, uh, Evan Harris appeared in the witness box, um, at the Royal Courts of Justice last week, uh, and cleared up a few deta-details about that. So, uh, specifically, uh, Gavin Burrows, who you might remember is the private detective who gave a witness statement to one side saying he'd been hacking and doing all sorts of illegal things on behalf of the Daily Mail, and then did a witness statement for the Daily Mail saying that he'd never done any of that, he'd never said that, and that that first witness statement was fake, and it wasn't his signature on it. Uh, he got £75,000 from, uh, Graham Johnson. Um, we've got Glenn Mulcaire, who you might remember,

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