Prince Harry has won a phone hacking court case he brought against the U.K.-based Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror.
The British royal was awarded 140,600 pounds, the equivalent of about $180,000 in damages, according to a report from CBS News.
The presiding judge, Justice Timothy Fancourt, said in a statement that he had awarded the Duke of Sussex a “modest” amount because he determined that the defendant “only played a small part in everything that the Duke suffered” and “was not responsible for all the unlawful activity that was directed at the Duke, and that a good deal of the oppressive behavior of the Press towards the Duke over the years was not unlawful at all,” the outlet noted.
Fancourt said only 15 of the 33 articles examined in the case were the result of phone hacking. This is the first of several lawsuits Harry has brought against…
