Ex Daily Mail editor clashes with lawyer as he describes 'rage' over allegations

Paul Dacre says hacking and tapping claims 'grave, preposterous, deeply upsetting'

Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has described allegations of phone hacking, tapping and illegal newsgathering levelled against his former team as “grave and sometimes preposterous”. In written evidence to the privacy trial pitting Prince Harry and others against the paper, he repeatedly emphasised the high editorial standards and family values he said characterised the Daily Mail during his time as editor and editor-in-chief from 1992 to 2018. D…

Former Daily Mail editor has only ‘vague memory’ of box with £3m invoices for private investigators being found

The former editor of the Daily Mail has said he has only a “vague memory” of a box containing invoices worth £3m (€3.44m) to private investigators being discovered in the newspaper’s offices.

Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous'

Paul Dacre told the High Court the claims that Daily Mail staff gathered information unlawfully are "inconceivable".

Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre clashes with lawyer as he describes 'rage' over allegations

One of Britain's most powerful press figures, Paul Dacre began his evidence, describing his "rage" at the allegations levelled against Associated Newspapers Limited by figures including Prince Harry.

Ex-Daily Mail editor only has ‘vague memory’ of £3m invoices to private investigators

Paul Dacre described the allegations made by Baroness Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, as ‘especially bewildering and bitterly wounding’

Ex-Mail editor says Baroness Lawrence’s allegations ‘bewildering’, court told

The former editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail was giving evidence at the High Court on Tuesday.