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J O U R N A L I S M W E E K LY<br />
www.pressgazette.co.uk 10 May 2013<br />
Sun faces fresh legal<br />
claim over texts<br />
`copied' from phone<br />
WILLIAM TURVILL<br />
PICTURE REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly<br />
The Sun is being sued for £50,000 over<br />
claims a journalist for the paper copied<br />
text messages from a stolen mobile<br />
phone.<br />
The mobile allegedly found its way into<br />
the hands of The Sun in 2009.<br />
According to a High Court claim form,<br />
the phone was returned to the individual<br />
who had lost it by a Sun journalist who<br />
left a note inviting the owner of the phone<br />
to get in touch over certain “matters of<br />
interest”.<br />
The claimant says that they were told in<br />
July 2012 that transcripts of text messages<br />
were found on a computer belonging to a<br />
Sun journalist.<br />
In March, Labour MP Siobhain<br />
McDonagh accepted “very substantial”<br />
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