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

The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Sara Payne by Rebekah Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters. One of Payne's close colleagues said: "We are all appalled and disgusted. Sara is in bits about it."

They even got the mother to write a piece for the last copy of the screws, saying how much she'd been supported by them....this could get very messy now.
 
Was wondering when the Sarah Payne case would make an appearance, given the prominence the papers afforded it (particularly relating to the 'Sarah's Law' stuff).
 
The Guardian said:
Friends of Sara Payne said she had accepted the News of the World as a friend and ally. Journalists from the paper attended the funerals of her mother and father and visited her sick bed after she suffered a severe stroke in December 2009.

With friends like these.....if anyone needed any further proof just how despicable these people are....
 
Friends of Sara Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends"...

The Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been an outspoken critic of News International, said of the Payne revelation: "This is a new low. The last edition of the News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family. Brooks talked about it at the committee inquiry. Now this. I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this."
The lows just keep on coming.
 
Ye gods. I know it had been looking feasible, but even so.

Sara Payne pays tribute to axed News of the World, The Sun, 8th July 2011.

The Sun said:
THE mum of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has paid tribute to the News of the World — saying she felt "like a friend had just died".

Justice campaigner Sara joined forces with the Sunday paper after her daughter's death and it championed her fight against sick paedophiles.

...

The NOTW team supported me through some of the darkest, most difficult times of my life and became my trusted friends.

"One example of their support was to give me a phone to help me stay in touch with my family, friends and support network, which turned out to be an absolute lifeline.

Private Eye ran this piece in their last edition

Private Eye said:
One of the most glowing encomia in the final edition of The News of The World came from Sara Payne, mother of Sarah, whose murder in 2000 kicked off the paper's "Name and Shame" campaign that made Rebekah Brooks's reputation.

As well as announcing, in the manner of a defendant at one of Stalin's show trials, that "rumours turned out to be untrue that I and my fellow Phoenix charity chiefs had our phones hacked", Payne heaped praise on the paper's staff. "The News of the World and more importantly the people there became my very good and trusted friends. And like all good friends they have stuck with me through the good and the bad."

This is true. In fact, so concerned were several of Payne's genuine friends on the paper at her appearance when she limped into the office - she suffered a devastating stroke just over 18 months ago, walks with a stick and remains both physically and mentally frail - that they tried to persuade her to turn around and be driven straight back home on the grounds that she was too poorly to be there.

Payne, however, insisted she must stay because "Rebekah phoned me and told me to come in. She said she was calling in her favour."
 
Dragged her in to Wapping despite her being very seriously I'll, as well. On rebecca's insistence.

The thing I'm struggling with is.....what the fuck was Brooks thinking? Can't have forgotten she'd given Payne the phone and must have realised that this was going to come out/Mulcaire had the number. So, at that point, to be twisting Payne's arm for a column for the last edition? Yeah - a cunt's trick, but we've known that all along. Just didn't think she was that stupid.
 
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