{"id":80264,"date":"2026-02-20T22:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/former-mail-on-sunday-journalist-denies-being-pi-handler-at-high-court\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:01:01","slug":"former-mail-on-sunday-journalist-denies-being-pi-handler-at-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/former-mail-on-sunday-journalist-denies-being-pi-handler-at-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mail on Sunday journalist denies being PI \u2018handler\u2019 at high court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9523f134f64eab11e258fe86af1deadf818f3aae\/75_0_1125_900\/master\/1125.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=8f309f182b6c1576486560799d5dba23\" alt=\"Former Mail on Sunday journalist denies being PI \u2018handler\u2019 at high court\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Former Mail on Sunday journalist denies being PI \u2018handler\u2019 at high court<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Ex-investigations editor Paul Henderson says allegation he was link for corrupt private investigators is an \u2018absolute lie\u2019A former Mail on Sunday journalist has denied being the \u201chandler\u201d of a private investigator alleged to have bugged homes and tapped the phones of his targets, the high court has heard.Paul Henderson, who was the Mail on Sunday\u2019s investigations editor and briefly its news editor, said it was surreal to be described as having a close relationship with Gavin Burrows, a private investigator whose disputed confessions provide the most serious accusations of unlawful information gathering against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/feb\/20\/former-mail-on-sunday-journalist-denies-being-pi-handler-at-high-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Former Mail on Sunday journalist denies being PI \u2018handler\u2019 at high court Ex-investigations editor Paul Henderson says allegation he was link for corrupt private investigators is an \u2018absolute lie\u2019A former Mail on Sunday journalist has denied being the \u201chandler\u201d of a private investigator alleged to have bugged homes and tapped the phones of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":80265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}