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Senior former policeman casts doubt over key Prince Harry privacy case source

Senior former policeman casts doubt over key Prince Harry privacy case source

Baroness Doreen Lawrence arriving at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in November 2025. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire A former senior Met police officer has cast major doubt over evidence being used to suggest the Mail titles illegally targeted Baroness Doreen Lawrence. Baroness Lawrence is suing Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, alongside Prince Harry, claiming the paper hacked, bugged and illegally blagged her whilst it campaigned to secure justice for her murdered son. Her claim against the Mail rests mainly on two sources: Private investigator Gavin Burrows, who was paid tens of thousands by Prince Harry’s research team and has now recanted everything he told them, and former police informant Derek Haslam who claims he overheard private investigator Jonathan Rees boast about targeting Doreen Lawrence on behalf of the Mail. He said he gathered evidence about Rees between 1997 and 2006. Former deputy assistant commissioner of the Met Police David Wood acted as Haslam’s handler as the force sought to gather information about the murder of former business partner of Rees Daniel Morgan. Wood said: “It was …