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

Can anyone think of a more labyrinthian investigation than that murder? So many layers, so many fingers in too many pies; you've really got no chance.
 
Transcript of Paxman's Morgan anecdote:
Two reasons I remember the lunch. One was that it was so unusual to be invited into such a bestiary. The second of which was that I was really struck by something that Piers Morgan said at the lunch. I was seated, as far as I recall, between him on my left and the editor of the Sunday Mirror on my right, and Ulrika Jonsson was seated opposite, next to or semi-next to, almost next to Philip Green and Victor Blank on her other side I think.

And Morgan said, teasing Ulrika, that he knew what had happened in the conversations between her and Sven-Göran Eriksson and he went into this mock-Swedish accent.

Now, I don't know whether he was repeating a conversation that he had heard or he was imagining this conversation. In fact, to be fair to him, I think we should accept both possibilities, because he probably was imagining it. It was a rather bad parody.

I was quite struck by it because I'm rather wet behind the ears in many of these things. I didn't know that that sort of thing went on. Indeed, when he turned to me and said: "Have you got a mobile phone?" I said yes, and he said: "Have you got a security setting on the message bit of it?" I don't think it was called voicemail in those days. I didn't know what he was talking about. He then explained that the way to get access to people's messages was was go to the factory default setting and press either 0000 or 1234 and that if you didn't put on your own code… his words: "You're a fool."

I don't know whether he was making this up, making up the conversation, but it was clearly something that he was familiar with and I wasn't. I didn't know. I didn't know that this went on.
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Someone on Twitter (turns out it can be useful!) pointed out that Morgan told the inquiry that he knew how to hack phones. Does the Paxman anecdote cause much more damage? Is it enough evidence to cause problems? Paxman didn't even say Morgan definitely listened to hacked messages, covered himself (and potentially Morgan?) with the "two possibilities" angle.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Someone on Twitter (turns out it can be useful!) pointed out that Morgan told the inquiry that he knew how to hack phones. Does the Paxman anecdote cause much more damage? Is it enough evidence to cause problems? Paxman didn't even say Morgan definitely listened to hacked messages, covered himself (and potentially Morgan?) with the "two possibilities" angle.
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I know how to hack phones - no evidence i did. There's a specific case that can be looked for that shows his knowledge of it happening. That's pretty much it.
 
Well yeah, just sounds like another accusation with little in the way of real evidence?

Bugger, hadn't realised Andrew Marr was on this morning, would have liked to have seen that.
 
Incidentally, Jay was asked to put the question about that dinner to Paxman, and seemed to be clearly fishing for that anecdote, asking "Did Piers Morgan say anything interesting or unusual?".

Wonder who asked him to ask? Maybe Paxman himself :D
 
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