Dowler

There is no dispute that the News of the World illegally intercepted voice-mail messages from the phone of the girl, Milly Dowler, who was discovered murdered in September 2002.

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

Regarding the changed story versions between editions, a News International spokeswoman said in August, "This matter involving Milly Dowler is now being looked into by the Metropolitan Police Service as a result of material being handed over to them by News International."

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

To apologize for the phone hacking, News International, the U.K. newspaper unit of News Corp., agreed in October to pay the Dowler family £2 million $3.1 million, and News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch agreed to donate £1 million personally to charities chosen by the Dowler family.

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

According to Mr. Lewis's statement, "the Metropolitan Police now say that an email indicates that Glenn Mulcaire was instructed in writing after the Dowler family's hopes were cruelly raised" by the deleted voice mails.

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

That article detailed how an April 14, 2002, News of the World story about Milly Dowler changed between editions, with early editions of that day's paper carrying many details of voice-mail messages left on Milly Dowler's phone.

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

The Guardian newspaper, which first reported details of the Milly Dowler hacking in July, now has amended part of that story, saying that new evidence has "led police to conclude that the News of the World was not responsible for the deletion of voice mails from Milly Dowler's mobile phone that caused her parents to have false hopes that she was alive."

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011

A News of the World reporter also told a person at the employment agency that he was working with the police in an effort to gain more information about Ms. Dowler, the report says.

Local Police Knew Tabloid Had Girl's Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2012

The report by Surrey police, which details a seminal episode in the phone-hacking scandal—the voice-mail interception of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler —quickly brought new criticism of both police and the closed tabloid's reporting tactics.

Local Police Knew Tabloid Had Girl's Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2012

News Corp. also said it reached a financial settlement with the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered British schoolgirl whose phone messages were intercepted by the company's now-defunct News of the World newspaper in pursuit of scoops.

Murdochs Are Re-Elected Amid Protest Russell Adams 2011

A lawyer for the Dowler family, Mark Lewis , issued a statement over the weekend suggesting that the News of the World might still be to blame for those deletions.

Hacking Investigation Questions Who Erased Voice Mails Jeanne Whalen 2011