Police probe into stolen Harry photos

BRITAIN - The Sun's sensational photos of Prince Harry cavorting with a blonde television presenter have prompted a criminal inquiry, after police began an investigation into how the newspaper obtained the pictures.

Television presenter Natalie Pinkham, who took the original shots, contacted Fulham police to report that several hundred negatives from her private collection were stolen while she moved house earlier this summer.

Copies were later sold to The Sun, which reprinted them this week alleging that they had been taken this summer at a London night-spot.

In fact, they were more than three years old and taken during her 25th birthday celebrations. One showed the Prince kissing Pinkham's neck, while apparently fondling her breast.

- INDEPENDENT