Milly Dowler Scandal: News Of The World Hacked Even More Voicemails. Shocking new details about the News of the World's hacking of Milly Dowler's phone have emerged, according to the Wall Street Journal. The revelation that the tabloid hacked the phone of the 13-year old murder victim sparked the phone hacking scandal that now threatens News Corp. The Guardian broke the story in July, charging that the tabloid had hacked her phone for story tips and deleted messages in order to make room for new ones.
The crux of the story was a News of the World article that contained a passing reference to the voicemails. The Journal reported on Saturday that the tabloid published more of Dowler's voice mail messages than police, lawmakers and the public previously believed. The articles are especially damning because the News of the World did not always quote directly from voicemails in articles suspected of using hacked messages. News Corp. has since admitted that the News of the World targeted Milly Dowler's phone. Rupert Murdoch. Milly Dowler phone-hacking front pages - in pictures | Media.
Andy Coulson Paid By News International After Becoming David Cameron Aide. LONDON — It's the crisis that just won't go away. Britain's phone hacking scandal, where journalists at the News of the World tabloid eavesdropped on the voice mails of royals, celebrities, politicians and even a teenage murder victim, has shaken Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and the highest levels of government. Top people in Murdoch's empire and the police have been forced out. Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment has been called into question for hiring an ex-News of the World editor implicated in the scandal. With the arrests of 15 people and extra police officers drafted in to work the developing case, the details just keep on unraveling – slowly and painfully – miring top players in a morass of bad publicity.
In the latest twist, the BBC reported that the former editor of the tabloid at the heart of the scandal received payments and benefits from the paper while working as a Cameron aide. "Any sense that the momentum slowed down is purely because this is summer," Graber said. How the media covered the Milly Dowler hacking story | Media. Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World | UK news. • See footnote 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 is 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.
The Dowlers' family lawyer, Mark Lewis, this afternoon issued a statement describing the News of the World's activities as "heinous" and "despicable". He said this afternoon the Dowler family was now pursuing a damages claim against the News of the World. Milly Dowler disappeared at the age of 13 on her way home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 21 March 2002. Their first step was simple, albeit illegal. But the journalists at the News of the World then encountered a problem.