[Betty_Swallocks]

The guy wasn't doing anything illegal. He was indulging in admittedly unusual sexual practices but nobody was getting injured and all the participants were over 18 and doing it of their own free will. We have no right to even know about it let alone have videos published in order to increase the already huge profits of the newspapers.

His social position has no bearing on it whatsoever. If he was an MP paying for the prostitutes with his John Lewis allowance then there would have been a public interest angle to the story but we have to assume that it all came out of his own pocket.
Why is it more relevant because his line of work places him in the public eye?

Personally I think the damages were derisory. £60k is nothing to the newspapers. If anyone really thinks that will deter them from doing the same thing over and over again then I'm afraid they're wrong.
I think they should have been fined the entire takings from every edition of the paper that carried the story and all the follow up stories. That would make them think twice in the future.