![]() ![]() This included for work relating to murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, entertainer Michael Barrymore and the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. Mr Sherborne showed Mr Harwood evidence he authorised payments to private investigator John Ross – who the barrister said was a corrupt former police officer. In his written statement, Mr Harwood said: “My Palm Pilot was not a list of intended or actual victims of phone hacking, rather it was simply a digital record of my hard copy Filofax, which contained all my contacts.” You got numbers in case you might need them, that’s why you have them.” He later added: “Most of these numbers of celebrities I never ever called. Mr Sherborne suggested to Mr Harwood that the reason he had these numbers was to give them to journalists “so they could hack these phones or blag information as a result”. The court heard claims a story about Chelsy Davy was not obtained unlawfully (Rebecca Naden/PA) “I just can’t remember, but I am confident that this story was obtained legitimately.” He added: “There were also other papers as well as Splash News, the US-based news agency, in Argentina covering the story so the quote from the nightclub goer … could have come from someone else or I could have got it myself, or (a freelancer) might have have got it. “As it happened, I would have asked the freelancer to go back to the people he had spoken to for the Saturday story to try and get any more on the ‘mystery blonde’. If we had had the photo before then, we would have used it in Saturday’s paper. “So, it is likely the picture in the article was taken there too, after local photographers were alerted by the Mail on Sunday story. It even carried a picture of her which they said was taken there. “According to the Mail on Sunday, published the day before the article, Chelsy Davy was already back in South Africa when its story appeared. ![]() ![]() He said in the statement: “As it happened, the Mail on Sunday identified the girl as Chelsy Davy and so provided me with my follow-up. He said that splash, which is not alleged to have come from unlawful information-gathering, included the wife of a bar owner saying “Harry’s group was accompanied by a ‘mystery blonde’, but nothing more than that” and added that the paper’s night log shows he was going to spend the weekend trying to find out her identity. Mr Harwood said he had a front-page “splash” which reported details of the duke’s “13-day bender” in Argentina, two days before the article about Ms Davy. He said he was the Daily Mirror’s US editor at the time of the article and had been asked to go to Argentina to cover Harry’s holiday in November 2004. Mr Harwood, who has been freelance since 2015 and since 2021 has been providing journalistic support to MGN regarding the ongoing litigation, said in a witness statement that an article he wrote about Ms Davy headlined “Harry is a Chelsy fan” – one of the articles complained about by the duke – did not involve any unlawful means. Giving evidence on Friday, the eighth day of the trial, former Daily Mirror journalist and news editor Anthony Harwood told the court he had no knowledge of phone hacking or other unlawful information-gathering. ![]()
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