Former Daily Mail crime editor Stephen Wright has said he was “devastated” by allegations that he deployed illegal newsgathering in the Stephen Lawrence case. Wright played a key role in the Mail’s longstanding campaign to secure justice for Stephen after the Met Police bungled an investigation into his racist murder in 1993. Stephen’s mother Baroness Doreen Lawrence has accused Mail journalists of cynically pretending to befriend her family in order to sell newspapers. Her privacy claim accuses the paper of hacking and tapping her phone lines, illegally accessing her bank records and using deception to “blag” information out of her. A more serious allegation of commissioning burglary to order was dropped before the privacy trial commenced. Baroness Lawrence decided to sue the Mail after being presented with evidence by Prince Harry’s legal research team largely based on testimony from private detectives. She is part of the ongoing privacy trial against Mail publisher Associated Newspapers alongside co-defendants Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley and Sir Simon Hughes. One of those detectives, Gavin Burrows, …