Hacking trial: Prince Harry claims for £320,000 in damages over 33 articles

Prince Harry is claiming £320,000 successful damages for 33 paper articles published by Mirror Group Newspapers which helium alleges breached his privacy.

Amounts being claimed were released connected the last time of the proceedings examining allegations of telephone hacking.

The lawsuit has been brought by Prince Harry and 3 others.

Prince Harry's lawyers person asked for up to £30,000 each for stories astir his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy and his cause taking.

A barrister for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) said this week the Duke of Sussex was lone entitled to £500 for a backstage investigator's effort to get idiosyncratic details astir him.

The highest damages exertion is for a 2005 "splash" connected the beforehand leafage successful the Daily Mirror which reported the prince's then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy was to "dump him".

A 2nd nonfiction was headlined "Chelsy Is Not Happy".

His lawyers said the communicative included photos of Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy taken astatine a region and went into item astir the authorities of their relationship.

They claimed highly circumstantial details of telephone interaction betwixt the mates were included.

Lawyers alleged a backstage researcher and "flight and telephone information blagger" successful South Africa helped with details for the story.

A tribunal papers stated: "The nonfiction came astatine a hard and susceptible clip for the Duke of Sussex, wherever details of his mistakes were played retired truthful publicly."

"Whilst the Duke of Sussex was remorseful for his actions, the nonfiction added to his embarrassment by revealing the interaction connected his idiosyncratic narration with Ms Davy, with humiliating details of backstage arguments betwixt the mates and added to his consciousness of distrust and paranoia of those astir him."

The 2nd highest grant claimed, £25,000, relates to a communicative successful the People successful 2003.

It reported a disagreement betwixt Prince Harry and the Prince of Wales implicit whether to conscionable Princess Diana's erstwhile butler Paul Burrell who had angered the brothers by selling secrets astir their mother.

Prince Harry's lawyers said the nonfiction contained "private and delicate information" astir the disagreement.

He believed the connection utilized mirrors voicemail messages helium would person near for Prince William astatine the clip suggesting helium was the unfortunate of telephone hacking.

Prince Harry is claiming £20,000 for a Daily Mirror communicative successful 2002 suggesting helium had hosted parties wherever helium and friends had taken cocaine and ecstasy.

It quoted the duke arsenic saying helium "only utilized cannabis spliffs" and his begetter Charles, present King, arsenic saying helium felt "huge relief" astatine this comment.

The papers said Prince Harry did not proviso the punctuation and links the communicative to a bid of payments to a tracing bureau the claimants said was progressive successful unlawful accusation gathering.

Prince Harry was astatine Eton astatine the clip which had a zero-tolerance drugs policy.

Claim records for articles relating to the actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner person besides been released.

The Coronation Street histrion Ms Sanderson's claims totalled much than £331,000 with the biggest request for £75,000 relating to a azygous communicative astir her hard narration with her father.

This was "heart-breaking, traumatic and humiliating" she said, suggesting accusation astir her had been gathered illicitly.

Mr Turner is claiming much than £131,000 for stories including sum of his trauma implicit being accused and cleared of intersexual offences.

In the last hours of the proceedings the defendant's barrister Andrew Green KC argued determination was nary nonsubjective grounds Prince Harry's telephone had been hacked.

He questioned whether his opponents had proved immoderate of the claims they had made.

Prince Harry's barrister David Sherborne criticised Mr Green for repeatedly describing backstage investigators who had been convicted of transgression offences arsenic "rotters".

Mr Sherborne said helium had go "something retired of a Beano comic, by describing a fewer rotters who did a fewer naughty things. That exemplifies the genuinely dismissive quality of the defendant's cognition to the thousands of victims".

Judgement successful the lawsuit is not expected for months.