Davinia Douglass and Chris Huhne among claimants to receive damages from publisher of the Sun and News of the World
A victim of the 7/7 bombing whose face became one of the defining images of the 2005 attack has received an apology and “substantial damages” from the publisher of the Sun and the defunct News of the World as it seeks to clear a raft of historical phone-hacking allegations.
The Murdoch-owned News UK made a number of settlements at the high court on Thursday, including agreeing to pay damages to Davinia Douglass, at times referred to as “the woman in the mask”, and a substantial six-figure sum for damages and legal costs to Chris Huhne, the former energy and climate change secretary, who said the payment vindicated his view that NGN had targeted him “to get rid of a political opponent”.
