Harry to accuse The Sun of deleting 30 million emails

Duke will allege cover-up’ as phone-hacking trial delayed

- ALEXANDER BUTLER

The Duke of Sussex is poised to accuse The Sun of destroying millions of emails as a landmark phone-hacking case was delayed twice yesterday.

Prince Harry, 40, will claim the newspaper deliberately deleted over 30 million emails to cover up alleged phone tapping carried out on himself and other public figures between 1996 and 2011.

He alleges the mass “cover-up” of incriminating evidence was authorised by senior figures like James Murdoch and former editor Rebekah Brooks under what was referred to as the “email deletion plan”.

The duke is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) over allegations of unlawful information gathering, claiming that its journalists and private investigators targeted him through voicemail interception. NGN denies any unlawful activity took place at The Sun, and said deleted emails took place as part of usual company policy.

He will be joined by Caroline Flack’s mother, who will give evidence about the newspaper’s exposure of her late daughter’s relationship with the prince. Christine Flack has alleged her daughter’s relationship with Harry was discovered and published through unlawful means.

The former Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, is also taking legal action against the publisher, which ran the now-defunct News of the World as well as