Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[andy2002]

I imagine we'll see a few high-profile sacrificial lambs, including Brooks, as Murdoch circles the wagons ready for a forthcoming charm offensive in which he'll insist it was a just a few bad apples involved and that things will be much cleaner and transparent in the future. Whether people buy it or not is another matter...

 

[DrRingDing]

I'd send it into Private Eye if I could be arsed.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wade is an unsexy Tilda Swinton in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

 

[twentythreedom]

How about a national boycott News international campaign, not just the NOTW but sky and everything else that makes that ratbag money

I loathe Murdoch but no way am I boycotting Sky!

Actually, having thought about this, I realise I am in Murdoch's evil spell. I read The Times (and NOTW often too), I have a full Sky subscription which includes phone and broadband.

But no way am I boycotting that. I would be left with nothing! *sobs*

I'll pen a missive to the sinister overlord instead. In green ink.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd send it into Private Eye if I could be arsed.

only if you want to make a prat of yourself. swinton looks nothing like that ging-er tart.

 

[DrRingDing]

How long have you been saving that jpeg for?

 

[Pickman's model]

How long have you been saving that jpeg for?

i only looked for it a minute ago.

 

[dylans]

Newsnight reports there are suggestions that the survivors of 7/7 were targeted

 

[shagnasty]

It just seems to run and run,if it was just a few scum bag politician but people like celebs ,royals and crime victims it just gets better .incidentally i have boycotted the sun since the seventies

 

[Santino]

Confused about the Coulson thing. If he's hung out to dry what other dark secrets might he divulge while bargaining or just out of spite?

 

[sleaterkinney]

Newsnight is interesting

 

[Roadkill]

It just seems to run and run,if it was just a few scum bag politician but people like celebs ,royals and crime victims it just gets better

Innit.

At first I thought it was just a storm in a teacup that might claim a few journalistic scalps but that Murdoch (and for that matter Cameron, via Coulson) would be able to calm with a few well-placed sackings, but it's just getting bigger and bigger. And, since it's looking worse and worse for Murdoch, it just keeps getting better.

 

[dylans]

This is getting bigger and bigger

Police officers investigating phone hacking by the News of the World are turning their attention to examine every high-profile case involving the murder, abduction or attack on any child since 2001 in response to the revelation that journalists from the tabloid newspaper hacked into the voicemail messages of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/phone-hacking-police-review-child-murders?intcmp=239

 

[Pickman's model]

is there anyone anywhere who hasn't been a victim of this phone hacking? glenn mulcaire must have been extraordinarily hard working.

 

[London_Calling]

Soham included, I think the big angle now is intimidating Dave Cook - what the fuck did Brook's think she was doing... and tie that to the lack of investigation by the Met first time around - all of this now is coming from Mulcare's papers that the Met failed to look at back then.

Huge implications for the police/Murdoch relationship.

 

[Pickman's model]

Soham included, I think the big angle now is intimidating Dave Cook - what the fuck did Brook's think she was doing...

if thought had entered into it we wouldn't be chuckling about it now - the downfall of notw, that is.

 

[agricola]

Soham included, I think the big angle now is intimidating Dave Cook - what the fuck did Brook's think she was doing...

That one could be more of a case of the tail wagging the dog - after all, if Cook was looking at private investigators who worked for the NOTW as well as being linked to that murder, you would think it would be in the interests of the private investigators to get him to back off, more than it would be for the NOTW. It could easily be down to Brooks, however.

 

[dylans]

These people decide who governs this country. What a terrible thought

 

[Santino]

Lest we forget, from back in September 2010:

One former reporter claimed that Mulcaire was used on almost every story, if not for hacking into voicemail then for accessing confidential databases: "The paper was paying Glenn Mulcaire £2,000 a week, and they wanted their money's worth. For just about every story, they rang Glenn. It wasn't just tapping. It was routine. "Even if it was just a car crash or a house fire on a Saturday, they'd call Glenn, and he'd come back with ex-directory phone numbers, the BT list of friends and family and their addresses, lists of numbers called from their mobile phones. This was just commonplace. He was hacking masses of phones.We reckoned David Beckham had 13 different sim cards, and Glenn could hack every one of them. How could senior editors not know that they are spending £2,000 a week on this guy, and using him on just about every story that goes into the paper?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/08/phone-hacking-news-of-the-world-witness

 

[London_Calling]

But no one is saying it in an affidavit.

 

[Santino]

The point is that the police probably already have the evidence for many of those stories.

 

[London_Calling]

I'm sure they can get the evidence. What they need is the sim .... no wait.

 

[killer b]

Fucking newsnight. That was shit.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fucking newsnight. That was shit.

haha

 

[London_Calling]

All the Newsnight presenters are cruisng through late-stage careers, who was presenting tonigth?

 

[Santino]

Paxtwat

 

[Maurice Picarda]

No-one for Paxman to be unleashed on - he even had to treat the seedy whistleblower with courtesy.

 

[London_Calling]

He's almost burned out. Time best spent on a series about The Edwardians, or some such guff.

 

[agricola]

The point is that the police probably already have the evidence for many of those stories.

In Motorman far more evidence - including lists of who (ie: which journalist from which paper) had paid for pieces of information, most of which had been gained (and which they knew had been gained) corruptly - resulted in sentences that could best be described as fuck all, and of course none of the papers involved were ever sanctioned.

 

[rorymac]

I feel a bit stupid asking this but I can't seem to grasp what exactly the NOTW's motivations were for hacking into Milly's phone in the first place ? Would appreciate if someone could put me right on that no matter how obvious it is.