Prince Harry tells court he and Meghan Markle have faced 'constant harassment' and press have 'blood on their hands'

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The Duke of Sussex has accused the press of having “blood” staining their “typing fingers”, with some responsible for causing pain, upset and death.In an impassioned part of his witness statement, Harry said that journalists are the “mothership of online trolling”.“Trolls react and mobilise to stories they create.

People have died as a result, and people will continue to kill themselves by suicide when they can’t see any other way out,” the duke said.“How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness(?)”The duke entered the witness box at The Rolls Building of the High Court earlier today to give evidence in his individual case against MGN over alleged unlawful information gathering.In his witness statement, he described how he and his wife the Duchess of Sussex had faced “constant harassment” and abuse from the tabloids over the past six years.He said he was “disgusted” at the cover-up over the alleged unlawful information gathering and would have tried to seek justice earlier if he had known about it. “Having experienced what I have over the last six years in terms of the constant harassment (online and off), intimidation and abuse that my wife and I have suffered at the hands of the tabloids, this sort of appalling behaviour doesn’t really surprise me,” he said.He warned that without proper press regulation, which he accused the current government of “clearly” having “no appetite for because their friends in the press said so”, press harassment would only get worse.Harry said finding out about the “level of cover-up is what makes me want to see my MGN claim through to the end, so people can really understand what happened”.He accused “those in power” of turning a blind