High court hears allegations media mogul oversaw ‘culture of impunity’ at the Sun and News of the World
Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesRupert Murdoch “turned a blind eye” to an extensive cover-up of wrongdoing at his newspapers, Prince Harry’s lawyers have alleged at the high court in London.
NGN has previously settled more than 1,300 claims since the Guardian exposed the phone-hacking scandal that led to thein 2011, but it has consistently denied that unlawful information gathering took place at the Sun. In court documents, David Sherborne, a barrister who is representing the duke among other claimants, said Murdoch’s dominant position as executive chairman of News Corp, and director of NGN’s parent company, News International, meant he would have known the extent of NGN’s “wrongdoing” when phone hacking was first revealed by the Guardian in 2009.
The filings allege Lewis was instrumental to “the scheme to destroy amongst other things as much of the company’s historic electronic data as possible”. It added that it was “inferred” that he and others would not have carried out “his extensive concealment and destruction strategy without the knowledge and approval of Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch”.
Brooks, a former editor of the Sun and a key figure in the Murdoch empire, was found not guilty of hacking and other crimes after an eight-month trial in 2014.
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