zondag, december 26, 2004
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Prince Harry, who has gained a reputation the most unruly royal, has got off without charges after his scuffle with a photographer outside a nightclub in October.
The Sunday Express tabloid said that public prosecutors had intended to give him a "criminal caution" but that the decision was overturned through an administrative error. A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman quoted by the tabloid said a "breakdown in communication" had led to the error in Harry's case.
Harry's file referred to the fact that he was third in line for the throne -- after his father Prince Charles and elder brother William -- instead of merely mentioning his name, the CPS said. The prince's backers have argued the 20-year-old merely pushed a camera away after it struck him in the face as he got into a car outside a fashionable London nightclub on October 21. The photographer Chris Uncle has argued that the royal "lunged" at him instead.
The CPS spokeswoman, while admitting that Harry's file had accidentally mentioned his status as a royal, said his case had been "reviewed according to the code in a similar way to any other". A criminal record could have kept Harry from enrolling in the elite Sandhurst military academy, as he plans to do in May.
Bron: AFP.
The Sunday Express tabloid said that public prosecutors had intended to give him a "criminal caution" but that the decision was overturned through an administrative error. A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman quoted by the tabloid said a "breakdown in communication" had led to the error in Harry's case.
Harry's file referred to the fact that he was third in line for the throne -- after his father Prince Charles and elder brother William -- instead of merely mentioning his name, the CPS said. The prince's backers have argued the 20-year-old merely pushed a camera away after it struck him in the face as he got into a car outside a fashionable London nightclub on October 21. The photographer Chris Uncle has argued that the royal "lunged" at him instead.
The CPS spokeswoman, while admitting that Harry's file had accidentally mentioned his status as a royal, said his case had been "reviewed according to the code in a similar way to any other". A criminal record could have kept Harry from enrolling in the elite Sandhurst military academy, as he plans to do in May.
Bron: AFP.
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