Here is more from the New York Times:
The cellphone of a British schoolgirl who went missing in
2002 and whose murdered body was discovered six months later was
repeatedly hacked by the News of the World tabloid at a time when no one
knew what had happened to her, a lawyer for her family said Monday.According to the lawyer, Mark Lewis, the newspaper not only
intercepted messages left on the phone of the girl, Milly Dowler, 13, by
her increasingly frantic family after her disappearance, but also
deleted some of those messages when her voice mailbox became full — thus
making room for new ones and listening to those in turn. This confused
investigators and gave false hope to Milly’s relatives, who believed it
showed she was still alive and deleting the messages herself, Mr. Lewis
said....
The second is that in 2002, the editor of News of the World was
Rebekah Brooks, a confidant and favorite of Rupert Murdoch, whose
corporation owns the paper. Ms. Brooks, who is now chief executive of
News International, the British newspaper division of Mr. Murdoch’s News
Corporation, has always denied knowing anything about phone hacking at
any Murdoch-owned papers. In an e-mail she sent to employees on Tuesday,
she repeated that assertion, The Guardian reported.
People very close to Ruper Murdoch knew that his reporters at the
paper were hacking into the voice mail accounts of newsworthy Britons.
Not just murder victims, but celebrities ... and members of government.
And this is a company that controls one US cable network, dozens of local TV affiliates, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
