Irish Sunday Mirror

It’s no crime if I criticise Meghan

Half-sister hits back over police ‘bullying’ probe ‘€100k cocaine’ haul arrest

- BY PATRICK HILL

She stormed: “It’s not a crime to criticise my sister for the way she has treated our father.”

The probe began after she wrote a series of controvers­ial messages about Meghan and Prince Harry.

Samantha now claims the investigat­ion, revealed by the Sunday Mirror, was bizarrely sparked by herself. She says she complained five months ago about death threats from trolls.

STUNNED

But detectives then decided to look into complaints against HER by social media users from at least four countries, including the UK, Canada and Sweden.

The focus on her has left Samantha, 54, stunned.

She said of her online defence of her and Meghan’s father Thomas, 75: “It doesn’t make me a bully because I advocate for my dad. That’s freedom of speech.

“And it doesn’t give people the right to harass and bully me. I don’t stalk anybody, I don’t harass anybody.”

Samantha, who has multiple sclerosis, says she has been bullied online since Meghan’s relationsh­ip with Prince Harry was first revealed in 2016.

She said: “These so-called cyber superfans of Meghan’s don’t know her – and if they met her she wouldn’t give them the time of day.” patrick.hill@ mirror.co.uk

GARDAI have seized suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of €100,000 following a search operation.

The haul was found by detectives in the Foxborough area of Lucan, Co Dublin, along with suspected quantities of MDMA and cannabis.

A 24-year-old man was arrested at the

Samantha, left, says her online criticism of Meghan is free speech scene and was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Traffickin­g) Act, 1996 at Lucan Garda station on Friday.

The Garda operation is part of ongoing investigat­ions targeting the sale and distributi­on of controlled drugs in the West Dublin area.

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