A Guardian investigation has uncovered what may likely be the most despicable allegation of phone hacking by News of the World yet in the ongoing scandal.
According to the report, evidence obtained by Scotland Yard suggests NotW journalists had purposely deleted messages from missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler‘s personal voicemail box — which they had accessed with the help of private investigators — giving her parents false hope that their daughter was still alive, and directly interfering with police investigation into her March 2002 disappearance.
Milly’s body was found six months later; her murderer, serial killer Levi Bellfield, was convicted of the crime last month.
Glenn Mulcaire, the PI at the center of the scandal, released a statement to The Guardian, saying he wanted “to apologise to anybody who was hurt or upset by what I have done,” though would not address the Milly Dowler phone hacking directly.
The News of the World will shut down next Sunday after 168 years in print.
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