A royal expert claimed investigative journalist Michael Gillard, who closely followed Prince Harry‘s Daily Mail lawsuit, has been right throughout. He said Gillard’s latest article contains the biggest revelation yet. The expert revealed that the journalist obtained a letter. It claimed that the claimants and legal team already knew key investigator Gavin Burrows had stopped being involved in the case before the lawsuit started.
A new report says a crucial witness had already stopped cooperating before the Daily Mail lawsuit began
Tom Sykes shared an update in his latest The Royalist article on Substack on how the key witness opted out of the Daily Mail lawsuit even before it started. The witness in question is private investigator Gavin Burrows, who had been a key supporter of the case. The expert gave his stance on Gillard’s reporting in his The Upsetter article, titled Last of the Fauxhicans, claiming that he has been almost right on every step of the case. Gillard was associated with The Sunday Times’ Insight team and The Guardian’s investigations unit and had been closely following and covering the case since it started.
Sykes mentioned that Gillard obtained the letter, which was originally received by Mr. Justice Nicklin on January 26. It mentioned that the claimants learned about Burrows’ withdrawal in March 2022, when Prince Harry and six high-profile figures filed a lawsuit against the Daily Mail for illegally obtaining information and publishing stories about them. It is to be noted that the case has been won by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).
The letter stated that Burrows didn’t want to testify in the trial following alleged accusations of assaulting and threatening the lead researcher, Graham Johnson, at his home in South London. Since then, he hasn’t been in contact with anyone but told the court through a video link from somewhere in Asia that he is afraid to testify.
Sykes added that the claimants, nevertheless, filed the lawsuit despite knowing that Burrows wouldn’t be involved. They had clear proof of withdrawal in March 2023 after Burrows denied the allegations in a witness statement submitted by Associated Newspapers. The public had no idea about him stepping back from cooperating until 2025. It became known after his written submission debunking his past statements was released.
