Harry v. NGN

[Atlasvue]

Starting a thread for Tuesday.
This BBC article covers the basics. This is the last line ….
’Tuesday really is the beginning of the end. And someone is going to lose - and lose big.’

I have a feeling, that Harry won’t win but he just wants to use the public setting to air his grievances. A therapy session would have worked out much cheaper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l00xkgwnyo

Why would he care how you view the statement? He’s got millions in the bank.

The strategy worked, NGN got spooked and paid a massive settlement.

How very bloody rude.

Nasty.

I admire this MNer's posts far more than anything I have ever seen from you.

Saucer of milk, etc.

Did he expose the real culprits? Did he fuck!

Someone’s rattled!

You know this amount how? And no, it was a settlement, not a win. The same as everyone else accepted a while ago. The same as his brother accepted. He wanted accountability allegedly. He doesn’t have that

No, someone's disgusted that you can't debate the matter without flinging insults.

How childish.

Or Harry got spooked and accepted what was on offer all along?

None of us know the terms of the agreement. We don't know that the settlement was 'massive', but it's interesting how eager some are to believe unsubstantiated rumours when it suits.

The NGN apology is an apology from Murdoch. He would have personally signed off on that apology. As he would have personally have signed off on the policy of using dodgy PIs.

@Partybagprick do you know what happened with Millie Dowler? She was a child who had gone missing. The family and the police feared the worst. It was all over the news. And then the police found the voicemail in Millies phone had been accessed AFTER she had gone missing. The papers and the parents said it gave them hope as she must have been alive to access her voicemail.

Then Millies body was found and she had died before her voicemail was accessed. The police urgently investigated who had accessed her voicemail as it could have been the murderer. Instead they found it was a journalist phone hacking.

You really think it takes a genius to work that out? When the police realised her phone had been hacked it was all over the press for weeks.

It’s reported in the media by a ‘well placed source’.

A settlement that big, with an unreserved apology, is a massive win.

Nobody cares about 'dodgy PI's.'

The top brass at NGN remain unscathed by this settlement, other than the company being an unspecified number of million poorer, which isn't that much out of the £1 billion or so they've already paid out in similar settlements over the years.

A previous poster mentioned that since Harry is domiciled in the US (seem to remember articles and a TV appearance last year where he confirmed this) them he has to pay hefty US taxes on the settlement. I hope he's got good tax people.

Who shouod we believe, Robert Peston or you? Hmmmm 🤔

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They’re not unscathed. That apology would have been like drawing blood.

But it’s not accountability is it? He said he wouldn’t accept a payout. He wanted accountability. So he hasn’t got what he allegedly wanted. No dragons

And Murdoch etc have been punished how???!! Catch a grip!

I think @mainecooncatonahottinroof is definitely rattled and spooked about Harry winning millions 😂

An apology is accountability in the current system.

Right.

So anonymous 'sources' are to be believed unconditionally? I guess so.

And the apology wasn't really 'unreserved' as no liability was admitted.

They’ve been hit in their wallet and having to make that apology would have hurt Murdoch. Massively.

Eh?

Isn’t being Rupert Murdoch punishment enough

I wouldn't know Robert Peston if he fell on my head. Believe him if you wish.

But since I haven't made any claim as to what the settlement consisted of, I'm not asking you to believe me.

Wise up, they are still in the same positions of power and wealth.

And as usual it's those much further down the feeding chain that carry the can.

If you think that's a "win", then I am sorry for you.

I doubt he sees it that way.