Media group led by Guardian seeks release of document written by Dominic Hampshire in support of Yang Tengbo
are fighting to prevent the release of a statement he made in support of a man accused of being a Chinese spy who became a trusted business partner of the prince.
It has become part of proceedings relating to December’s decision by the immigration tribunal to uphold Yang’s exclusion from the UK – and whether the public can be told about the full contents of a document referred to in the tribunal’s final judgment. He said it was normal practice for cited documents to be disclosed to the media because the “public need to understand the issues, and also the evidence”, and that Hampshire “must have known” his witness statement could eventually come into the public domain.
Hampshire, a former Scots guard and old friend of Andrew, described himself as a “senior adviser” to the royal in letters written to Yang in 2020. But on Friday he described himself as “secretary of the Quad-Centenary Club”, a society established to raise funds for London’s Royal Blackheath golf club, for which Andrew was chair.the year before. “You sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on,” Hampshire said at the time.
Yang’s lawyers then told him they wanted the document to form part of his immigration appeal. “I agreed, following assurances from Mr Yang’s legal team that they had every confidence their application to have the session heard in private would be successful,” Hampshire said.
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