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Investigator provided information for story about Queen’s cousin, lawyer arguespublished at 14:18 GMT
Imogen James
Reporting from the High Court
After the break, David Sherborne begins by discussing
private investigator John Ross, a former Metropolitan police officer.
Ross was paid on a number of occasions for a number of
stories, Sherborne alleges.
Sherborne brings up an email now, sent in 2011. It was a
list compiled by Mail on Sunday managing editor John Wellington, sent to Liz
Hartley in their legal department, that shows a table of payments to John Ross.
Sherborne alleges the evidence confirms that Ross was
providing information from his “corrupt connections” to police
officers.
He cites one payment of £1,000 on 1 November 2001, titled
‘[redacted] cousin burgles’.
This was, he writes, about an ongoing investigation into a
burglary at the home of the second cousin to the Queen.
Sherborne’s written argument says it can be inferred this
was an unlawful payment to a police officer for information, from both the
title of the invoice and the fact the Mail on Sunday published an article the
same day headlined: “Robbers target Queen’s cousin for second time”.
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