{"id":153152,"date":"2015-05-21T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153152"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:20:29","slug":"daily-mirror-owners-compensate-celebrity-phone-hacking-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/daily-mirror-owners-compensate-celebrity-phone-hacking-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mirror owners to compensate celebrity phone-hacking victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>London&#8217;s High Court has ordered Mirror Group Newspapers to pay \u00a31.2m in compensation to eight celebrities who were found victims of phone-hacking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrities awarded payments include actress Sadie Frost, former footballer Paul Gascoigne , the BBC executive Alan Yentob, Coronation Street actor Shobna Gulati, flight attendant Lauren Alcorn, TV producer Robert Ashworth and actors Lucy Taggart and Shane Richie.<\/p>\n<p>Phone-hacking victims sued the newspaper group saying their lives &#8216;torn apart&#8217; by decade of mistrust and paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mann while delivering the ruling on Thursday described it as \u201cvery substantial\u201d payouts after considering the scale of intrusion suffered by the eight claimants.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019The phone hacking was part of a large-scale pattern of the unlawful obtaining of information\u201d by journalists at the newspaper group\u201d, the judge said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/21\/412182\/London-High-Court-rules-on-phonehacking\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s High Court has ordered Mirror Group Newspapers to pay \u00a31.2m in compensation to eight celebrities who were found victims of phone-hacking. Celebrities awarded payments include actress Sadie Frost, former footballer Paul Gascoigne , the BBC executive Alan Yentob, Coronation Street actor Shobna Gulati, flight attendant Lauren Alcorn, TV producer Robert Ashworth and actors Lucy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}