London | Prince Harry ended more than seven hours of intense, sometimes confrontational, testimony in a London courtroom on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), having put the ethics of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid press on trial even as he struggled to produce conclusive proof of lawbreaking by reporters.

Over two gruelling days the prince spoke on the witness stand to accuse Mirror Group Newspapers of intercepting his voicemail messages and using other unlawful means to gather information about everything from his school sports injury and youthful drug use to the ins and outs of a break-up.