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    Milly dowlers phone allegedly hacked by news of the world

    What these papers will do to get a story !!!
    The family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler yesterday revealed they will sue the News of the World for allegedly hacking into her mobile phone after she went missing.
    Sally and Bob Dowler’s lawyer said the paper had “no humanity” and said the alleged activity had given them false hope that their daughter was still alive.
    Rebekah Brooks, now Rupert Murdoch’s chief executive in the UK, was the Sunday tabloid’s editor and Andy Coulson, who quit as Prime Minister David cameron’s media adviser in January, was her deputy at the time of Milly’s disappearance.
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    Solicitor Mark Lewis told how Scotland Yard contacted Milly’s parents about the allegations in April, a month before Levi Bellfield went on trial for her murder.
    He said: “Sally and Bob Dowler have been through so much grief and trauma without further distressing revelations to them regarding the loss of their daughter.
    “It is distress heaped upon tragedy to learn that the News of the World had no humanity at such a terrible time.
    “The fact that they were prepared to act in such a heinous way that could have jeopardised the police investigation and give them false hope is despicable.”
    Mr Lewis said the Dowlers had been told their telephones had also been targeted.
    Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is alleged to have illegally accessed Milly’s voicemail after she was abducted by Bellfield, 43, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.
    Mr and Mrs Dowler are now seeking damages from the News of the World, Mr Lewis said.
    Milly’s messages were allegedly deleted by journalists in the days after she disappeared to free up space for more messages for them to intercept.
    As a result, friends and relatives of the 13-year-old claim that they concluded she might still be alive. Police allegedly feared evidence may have been destroyed.
    Scotland Yard and the News of the World’s publisher, News International, declined to comment.
    Labour MP Tom Watson called the alleged interceptions “despicable and evil” in the Commons yesterday.
    Mr Watson said: “It has just been revealed that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked by private investigators working for News of the World.”
    In a point of order, he told Speaker John Bercow: “The company subsequently revealed the information to the Surrey Police who were investigating the matter.
    “As well as being a despicable and evil act that will shock parents up and down the land to the very core, it also strongly suggests that Parliament was misled in the press standards inquiry held by the DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) Select Committee in 2010.”
    Mr Watson has been a vocal critic of the News of the World over the allegations.
    Bellfield, already in prison for another killing, was given a life jail sentence last month for Milly’s murder but her parents had to face intrusive questioning about their family life in the witness box.
    Mulcaire and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman served sentences in 2007 for plotting to hack royal aides’ messages.



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    Re: Milly dowlers phone allegedly hacked by news of the world

    We really need to get control of the press in this country!
    There are no depths they will not sink to in pursuit of a story and if they don't find one suitably headline enough, they will make one up!
    The News of the World seems to be the worst culprit in most cases, with seemingly no moral fiber at the heart of their organization.

    It is a fine line between freedom of the press, which we need in order to report government scandals and all things they don't want us to learn about, and the blatant misuse of that freedom to interfere in peoples personal lives and ongoing police investigations!
    We urgently need the press to be scrutinized rigorously by an outside independent body, forcefully paid for by the press themselves, with the same freedoms as they enjoy. This third party also needs to have big teeth in powerful jaws in order to censure, fine and prosecute newsgroups, as well as dismiss permanently from journalism those reporters who consistently step over the line!

    One of the biggest problems we have is that the press complaints authority is run by the press, with seemingly no desire or powers to control it's members in any meaningful way!
    You have to feel for Milly Dowler's family, no amount of money will ever bring her back, but a big payout to them will at least punish these rabid newspapers for intruding on their privacy.
    If the police are saying that the phone hacking hindered their investigation, then separate and serious charges should be made against the whole group, with prison terms given to anyone involved, from the owners, managers and editors down!
    It seems they will learn no other way that this country's laws apply to them as well!

    Perhaps with the amount of hacking and scandal's attached to the News Of The World lately, it is time to shut them down here altogether, as they have been shown to be a corrupt and immoral organization?

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