Prince Harry may be a royal, celebrity, and media mogul, but he’s not necessarily the best plaintiff. Case in point, the Duke of Sussex spent part of this week in court as part of a larger lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers , publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People tabloids. Harry and his fellow plaintiffs are arguing the newspapers illegally violated their privacy via means like phone hacking.
Sanderson was not present every day of the trial, though he had a right to be there. There’s a good chance that his legal team wanted the jury to think his injuries were so severe that he couldn’t be comfortable for long stretches in court. Perhaps Sanderson’s lawyers were worried that their client would look too healthy to the jury if they saw him every day. Or maybe they just would notice things they didn’t like about him. Whatever the strategy was, however, Sanderson still lost.