Duke of Sussex & Others v ANL: thread 2

[bluegreygreen]

This is a continuation of the discussion on the previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/5443044-duke-of-sussex-court-case-key-witness-statement-false?page=1

We are following the court case on the

Well done Mr Wright👏

I wonder if it comes as a massive shock to Harry that he is not the only man in the world whose wife is a person of colour, and that Stephen Wright and his family are against racism?

Wright’s sense of betrayal, and disappointment in DL, is palpable. Unless he’s an Oscar-winning league liar, I think Wright’s evidence may well be compelling in the judge’s view.

Rebecca English and Katie Nicholl are going to be very interesting if they point to sources close to Harry. This is not good for the claimants so far.

Mail article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15572513/Prince-Harry-turned-Baroness-Lawrence-against-Mail-High-Court-hears.html

This whole court case would make a really compelling Netflix miniseries. Paul Dacre and Stephen Wright could be the moral centers. Gavin Burrows tormented and living in fear. Airborne and Harry leading people astray for various reasons.

But why did a judge allow this to come to trial? Surely there must be some evidence?

If it didn't go to trial PH would be on the front cover telling the world that it was another example of an establishment stitch up.

The judge did caution both sides to think carefully about continuing, by allowing both sides to chose to continue he can not be seen as preventing the truth from being heard.

I’m not sure that’s entirely true.

If it weren’t for Epstein’s case coming under scrutiny in the USA, the RF and the institution of the monarchy would still be covering up for AMW now.

And it's our free press that has been poking away at this and other stories that mean that higher powers cannot hide their dirty laundry.

Good point.

And yet in the USA there have been no consequences for anyone except Ghislaine Maxwell.

The US sat on the Epstein files for decades, it was only when it was used as a political punching bag that it was eventually exposed, and even then it has still only been partially exposed. The US government covered it up and are still protecting some powerful people.

Archive link for DM article https://archive.is/AfPdh

I do think the free press in this country is extremely important, and being seen to uphold it is a good reason for this trial to have gone ahead.
It's one of the reasons I linked to the other story upthread (totally unrelated story, but same principle).

Exactly. Whilst it would be comforting to think that removing our monarchy would clean up public life and the morals of those in power there is actually no evidence this is the case. There are far more powerful people (who were involved with Epstein) than a constitutional monarch (who wasnt involved with Epstein) working to avoid public exposure and census.

Trial today continues with evidence from Richard Pendlebury, a DM journalist who has worked alongside Stephen Wright on stories about the Lawrence case.

But I'm now obviously slightly distracted by the Andrew arrest 😶

Yes, I suspect the entire media will be distracted likewise, @PrayForMyBum, so whether we'll get any reporting of the case in the next couple of days is anyone's guess.

Don't really want to do thread policing but would rather if possible not have too much about Epstein on this thread - it's been a bit of an oasis without him.

I think you can rely on there still being coverage of the case by the DM, at least, as it’s very much in their interests to do so.

and absolutely agree re JE….happy to banish his name from this thread.

Agree there are plenty of threads discussing JE.

I’m glad you said it! We don’t need Epstein or RF cover up conspiracies on this thread!
there are a million others to choose from!

@bluegreygreenI think we’re in need of a third thread if you would be happy to do the honours again!

Happy to do that - give me a moment ...

New thread is here ...

Thread 3

Yike it's hard to keep up today what with the ANL case, the AMW case and I'm following the half-blood prince trial in Norway.

The rf sub has descended into something I’d rather not join in with, thank goodness we have this thread for sanity!

Is there a thread on that @Lunde?

How and why?