Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the Screws

stockhausen · 4 Jul 2011 at 16:53

The News of the World illegally targeted the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler and her family in March 2002, interfering with police inquiries into her disappearance, an investigation by the Guardian has established.

Scotland Yard are investigating the episode, which is likely to put new pressure on the then editor of the paper, Rebekah Brooks, now Rupert Murdoch's chief executive in the UK; and the then deputy editor, Andy Coulson, who resigned in January as the prime minister's media adviser.

Milly's family lawyer this afternoon issued a statement in which he described the News of the World's activities as "heinous" and "despicable". Milly Dowler, then aged 13, disappeared on her way home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey on 21 March 2002. (The Grauniad)

Will any UK Government ever pluck up the courage to ban Murdoch having any involvement in any form of UK media?

The man and his henchmen & women are thoroughly evil :mad:

matt_fsr · 4 Jul 2011 at 16:55

stockhausen said:
Will any UK Government ever pluck up the courage to ban Murdoch having any involvement in any form of UK media?

No, because they're essentially on the payroll of Murdoch's murky empire.

stockhausen · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:08

According to the BBC, not only did they listen to voicemail messages, they deleted those that they had already heard so as to allow relatives and friends to leave further messages, thereby allowing investigators to believe that the murdered Milly Dowler was still alive and accessing her voicemails.

Everyone associated with NewsCorp is scum :mad:

craptakular · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:11

That is sick if proven to be true.

Why would anyone do something like this?

leaskovski · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:19

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661

Ouch! What idiots.

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:20

stockhausen said:
Everyone associated with NewsCorp is scum

I don't think you can tar everyone with that brush. If you do then lolstockhausen.

Danthus · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:21

Why do they keep insisting on calling it hacking!

Jokester · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:21

Absolutely dispicable thing to do, bad enough to listen in, but to delete messages like that, horrendous.

Azza · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:23

Really sickening if it's all true.

Mr Jack · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:31

I hope we see an awful lot of people spending time at Her Majesty's finest penal establishments for this.

Edrof · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:32

Can the news get any lower. About time people stopped buying the trash rags.

wilko49 · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:35

Pretty awful - on the plus side, tampering with evidence carries a jail sentence.

Edrof · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:36

wilko49 said:
Pretty awful - on the plus side, tampering with evidence carries a jail sentence.

I'm sure the rich people will avoid that.

dekez · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:37

That is terrible :mad:

MikeHunt79 · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:44

stockhausen said:
Everyone associated with NewsCorp is scum

That's going a little too far I think, but even so this is pretty disgraceful behaviour....

fez · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:46

No one will know anything about it im sure.

MrMeToo · 4 Jul 2011 at 17:55

Azza said:
Really sickening if it's all true.

This.

MrMoonX · 4 Jul 2011 at 18:04

yet in the same breath a Tory minister jeremy C HUNT approves more mass murdoch media takeover, I guess I know who donated to the party coffers!

also why is it news of the screws? im a screw and ive never even read it or any red top for that matter, it would sicken me to read any paper like that

Locky · 4 Jul 2011 at 18:08

People involved need to die imo.

Jokester · 4 Jul 2011 at 18:08

Screws as in kiss and tells.

Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the Screws

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