Hugh Grant Joins Call For Police Investigation Into Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers Following Prince Harry Settlement

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Hugh Grant has joined the chorus calling for a police investigation into criminality at News Group Newspapers (NGN) following this week’s high-profile settlement and apology with Prince Harry.

Appearing on the BBC’s Today program this morning, the BAFTA-winning star and Board Director of the Hacked Off campaign group said the “aim” of Harry’s initial case and of Grant’s own 2024 case against NGN had been to spark a “new criminal investigation” against NGN, but both had fallen foul of the UK civil courts legal system.

He said the job was not done “by any means” since the Harry settlement, coming after Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne said the Prince and fellow complainant Tom Watson “join others in calling for the police and Parliament to investigate not only the unlawful activity now finally admitted [by NGN], but the perjury and cover ups along the way.” Harry’s reported eight-figure settlement came several months after Notting Hill star Grant settled a privacy claim against NGN.

At the time, Grant said he could have faced a bill of up to £10M ($12.3M) even if he had won due to a quirk of the British legal system.