Hu Grant urged the police to investigate the lick owners

Hugg Grant called the police to launch a new criminal investigation against The Sun owners, saying that the work has not been completed “in any way” after Prince Harry settled his privacy claim on Wednesday.

News Group Newspapers (NGN) agreed to pay “adequate damage” and apologized to Duke of Sussex for “serious infiltration” by The Sun between 1996 and 2011, and admitted that “incidents of illegal activity” Was executed by private investigators. Newspaper.

Grant also settled a privacy claim against NGN in 2024, stating that even if he had won, he could have to face a bill of up to £ 10m.

The actor said that both incidents have revealed that a civil matter was not a right tool to know the “real truth” of what happened in the newspaper.

Former labor leader Lord Tom Watson, who arrived on an agreement with NGN on Wednesday, said a legal team would hand over a doseer to the Metropolitan Police.

Force said on Friday that no active investigation was conducted in the allegations of phone hacking or related cases.

A spokesman said, “We are waiting for any correspondence from the respective parties, which we will answer at the appropriate time.”

Grant said that NGN has “sports” in civil courts to silence the complainants and require a criminal investigation.

He said, “He has done this continuously in the last 10 years.” Today’s program of BBC Radio 4 on Friday.

“They have spent £ 1 billion to ensure that these things are never noticed in court … and you do not get proper judicial conclusions.

“I think they are afraid that a new criminal investigation will begin with those conclusions.”

In civil courts, claimants may eventually have to pay the cost of their opponents if the compensation award is less than the offering – even if they win.

Grant had accused The Sun of using private investigators to tap his phone and steal in his house, and said that he had compromised as he could not face possible costs to proceed in the trial Was.

NGN denied the allegations and stated that the agreement was “without accepting the obligation”.

The actor called the Crown Prosiction Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police for investigation.

The CPS told the BBC that the criminal investigation is a case for the police.

Grant also argued that a new investigation was needed because those who were in the newspaper at that time, who had directed private investigators doing “illegal activity”, were still on “posts of great power”.

NGN apologized to Prince Harry for serious infiltration in his personal life between 1996 and 2011.

The editor of the then newspaper, Ribka Brooks, is currently the CEO of News UK. In a 2014 trial, he was acquitted of a conspiracy to hack Vismail.

The actor said, “Many soldiers of those newspapers have now come towards us … it is terrible to say.”

“We have been punished, we have gone to jail, we are fined, we have lost our jobs.

“But those who ordered all this are still there.”

Meanwhile, Grant said that the government should initiate the second part of the Leaveson investigation of the press standards in the light of the Duke of Sussex case.

In view of the phone hacking scam, investigation of the culture, practice and morality of the press was initiated in 2012.

“This is something that was repeatedly promised by the labor to protest against the victims of the press abuse.

“And now that they are in government, it seems that they have suddenly disappeared from their priority list.”

On Thursday, Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Lisa Nandi refused to start the second phase of investigation and said it is no longer “suitable for purpose”.

Lisa Nandi told the BBC, “A long investigation that was prepared in a separate era, since then many cases we have seen have arisen from the incidents that have taken place online, where many people nowadays watch news. “

The BBC has contacted The Sun, News UK and the government for the response.