Rebecca English shown emails at high court trial suggesting investigator ‘went out on a limb’ to help her
The Daily Mail’s royal editor has denied using a private investigator to “blag” information about the Duke of Sussex and his former girlfriends, as she was shown emails suggesting the investigator “went out on a limb” to help her.
Rebecca English’s name appears on six of the articles cited by Prince Harry in his case against Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail.
He is one of seven claimants suing the publisher, claiming its journalists benefited from unlawful information gathering over decades. ANL denies all the allegations of wrongdoing, saying all its stories were obtained legitimately.
The allegations largely refer to work carried out by Mike Behr, a South Africa-based private investigator that English said she knew only as “a freelance journalist who could help on Africa stories”.
