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News of The World Phone Hacking Scandal [Merged]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661

After she went missing, how low can the press get and how do they sleep at night:mad:. Poor Millie's family as if they didn't have enough heartbreak to contend with:(.

*Calms down after rant* I know the press have a job to do but sometimes they go a step too far...

they deleted messages that could have held information, sick bastards.

NOTW are so deplorable :bored:

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Originally Posted by Callum (Post 4351180)

NOTW are so deplorable :bored:

I would rank them just below the Daily Fail and The Sun but all as bad as each other...

there's just no words for how ****ing disgusting that paper is. Anyone who buys it is a total moron.

-not directly related but it's still run by this prick-

Sign http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2?twjp

News Corporation should be dismantled and Murdoch bankrupted ..... :mad:

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 4351182)

there's just no words for how ****ing disgusting that paper is. Anyone who buys it is a total moron.

Their sports section is actually quite good going OT:(. Still how distressing for her family!

Saw it on the news earlier. Absolutely dispicable :mad:

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The Guardian claims that after Milly's voicemail facility became full, the NoW deleted messages it had already listened to.

It quotes one source as saying that this gave false hope to friends and family, who mistakenly believed that Milly herself had cleared her message inbox and that therefore she was still alive.

:mad: disgusting.

What do you expect from the sister paper of the s*n.
Anybody that buys the s*n or the news of the world is supporting this type of behaviour.
Dont support them boycott murdochs vile hurtful dangerous mob.

Please
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I heard on the news that the Ford Motor Company has pulled all its advertising from the NOTW as a result of this phone hacking scandal. What a brilliant idea. I hope other companies do the same.

It gets worse - C4 have revealed that NOTW were phone-hacking and keeping under surveillance a police officer who was investigating the murder of a private investigator - the police officer was married to a Crimewatch reporter - apprently Brooks was advised of the NOTW's interference by the Met but it went no further at the time - only now are the Met "leaking" info that they've had for years .... :eek:

NOTW need closing down and the execs jailed, this is appalling behaviour and I don't know why they thought they could get away with it!

News of the World targets Met Police detective during a crucial murder investigation

http://www.channel4.com/news/news-of...lice-detective

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Channel 4 News learns that a Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance by News of the World journalists and his personal details targetted.

The surveillance operation came during a crucial murder investigation which implicated private investigators who had alleged links to News International.

Channel 4 News understands Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the News of the World, was informed of the allegations by Scotland Yard at the time.

It was at a time when Rebekah Brooks - now one of the most powerful figures in the media industry - ran the tabloid News of the World and it was just three months after the alleged hacking into Millie Dowler's phone.

This is a story about a claim that Brooks was confronted by the police over allegations of her journalists targetting a murder detective. An astonishing story which at one point, we've been told, had the police secretly watching the News of the World watching the police.

Channel 4 News can reveal the story for the first time tonight.

At 9PM, 25th June 2002, BBC Crimewatch was about to announce yet another investigation into a notorious, unsolved murder.

The case involved the murder of Daniel Morgan, a private investigator who was found in the car park of a south London pub 24 years ago with an axe buried in his head.

The case collapsed again recently - for the fifth time - undermined hugely by police corruption in the early years. But it's what happened after this Crimewatch broadcast to the senior detective in charge, Dave Cook, which has never been told before.

Alastair Morgan, the brother of Daniel Morgan, the murdered private investigator spoke to Detective Dave Cook often during the investigation.

He told Channel 4 News: "Dave told me about it, he told me about it then but I didn't realise who the newspaper was at that point."

Within days of the Crimewatch broadcast, it's understood that Dave Cook had been told by colleagues he was being targetted by the News of the World.

Alastair Morgan describes what is supposed to have happened next: "I learned about the surveillance and then I learned that it was the News of the World that was carrying out the surveillance.

"Dave told me that he was out walking his dog, he was taking his dog for a walk one evening when he noticed a van in an odd location. I think he said behind some trees near his house. The following morning he noticed he was being followed."

It's alleged that the police discovered one of the vans was leased to the News of the World. So concerned were the police that a witness protection unit was mobilised - as well as a police counter surveillance team.

When finally confronted, the News of the World apparently said they were interested in whether Dave Cook was having an affair with a Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames. They were in fact married at the time. Jacqui Hames has told Channel 4 News she has been contacted by Operation Weeting Detectives investigating the phone hacking scandal.

What is so disturbing about this allegation is the timing of the targeting of Dave Cook. Because in the murder investigation he was leading, suspects in the case were private investigators who, it's alleged, had close links to the News of the World.

Channel 4 News also understands that Rebekah Brooks - now CEO of News International - knows all about this.

Because, it's claimed, there was a meeting at Scotland Yard in December 2002, in which the police challenged her over this.

We still do not know what the outcome of that meeting was, but both the News of the World and the Metropolitan Police appear never to have spoken about it publicly.

Tonight the News of the World told Channel 4 News: "News International has not been previously aware of these claims but will investigate any allegations that are put to them.

They say they are not in a position to confirm or deny whether any meeting took place or what may have been said if indeed a meeting did take place.

Jeez, how much more is going to come out about the unscrupulous Brooks ..... :shocked:

Latest on the BBC News channel suggests that families of 7/7 victims also had their phones hacked. Now that is sickening. What next?

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Originally Posted by bbfan1991 (Post 4351099)

*Calms down after rant* I know the press have a job to do but sometimes they go a step too far...

They certainly do, but it would seem the News of the World is in a lot of bother likely from their antics on this, ironically now making the news,(very negatively for them too), rather than reporting it.

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Originally Posted by bbfan1991 (Post 4351097)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661

After she went missing, how low can the press get and how do they sleep at night:mad:. Poor Millie's family as if they didn't have enough heartbreak to contend with:(.

:shocked:

that's truly awful.

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 4352717)

I heard on the news that the Ford Motor Company has pulled all its advertising from the NOTW as a result of this phone hacking scandal. What a brilliant idea. I hope other companies do the same.

So do I Livia.

Police have visited the parents of Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman as well, the two 10 year old girls murdered by Ian Huntley, they might have hacked their fathers phone or something

If all of this is true, and I bet it is, it's actually disgusting and if the paper manages to survive this I hope noone ever buys it again

Jesus, the Wells and Chapman one is low :shocked: Do they only employ Sociopaths or something? :bored:

The dick who done the hacking 'apologised' but said he didn't know he was doing anything wrong. Use your ****ing brain.

Revealed: Brooks’ past link with Milly private detective

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-2307517.html

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Revelation piles pressure on Murdoch executive whilst advertisers boycott News of the World as scandal grows.

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, personally commissioned searches by one of the private investigators who was later used by the News of the World to trace the family of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, The Independent can reveal. Ms Brooks, while editor of NOTW, used Steve Whittamore, a private detective who specialised in obtaining illegal information to “convert” a mobile phone number to find its registered owner. Mr Whittamore also provided the paper with the Dowlers’ ex-directory home phone number.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which successfully prosecuted Whittamore for breaches of the Data Protection Act in 2005, said last night it would have been illegal to obtain the mobile conversion if the details had been "blagged" from a phone company.

Ms Brooks, who said yesterday she was "shocked and appalled" at the latest hacking claims, admitted requesting the information. But she said it could be obtained by "perfectly legitimate means". She faced demands for her resignation last night.

The revelation came as News International battled a political and commercial firestorm over the disclosure that its bestselling paper interfered with the police investigation into Milly's disappearance in March 2002 by hacking into her mobile phone and deleting messages.

An emergency three-hour debate is to be held in the House of Commons today. The Labour leader Ed Miliband hardened his position on the scandal, demanding a public inquiry and calling for Ms Brooks to "consider her conscience and consider her position".

David Cameron described the hacking as "quite shocking" and a "truly dreadful act", but rebuffed the call for a public inquiry. He insisted Scotland Yard be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it led.

Responding to growing clamour for her to step down, Ms Brooks yesterday told News International staff it was "inconceivable" that she knew of or sanctioned the hacking of Milly's mobile phone.

In a passionate defence of her position, she wrote: "I have to tell you that I am sickened that these events are alleged to have happened. Not just because I was editor of the News of the World at the time, but if the accusations are true, the devastating effect on Milly Dowler's family is unforgivable."

No evidence has been presented that Ms Brooks was aware of Mulcaire's activities surrounding Milly's disappearance. But an investigation by The Independent shows she was aware of the existence of Whittamore, who used an associate to obtain the Dowlers' home phone number from BT, and made use of his services in an unrelated case.

A copy of the "Blue Book" obtained by The Independent, which covers more than 1,000 transactions carried out for New International's titles between 2000 and 2003, records a request in 2001 from Ms Brooks (whose surname was then Wade) for a "mobile conversion" along with a mobile phone number. She made a second request for an electoral roll search for an address in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The address was occupied at the time by a painter-decorator who lived in a flat above a bike shop in the town.

A friend said: "I have no idea why the editor of the News of the World would have been interested in him. He's just an ordinary guy."

When asked last year by MPs to explain the circumstances around her request, Ms Brooks said she could no longer remember why she wanted to convert the number.

"This was nine years ago and I cannot recall why I required this particular conversion," she wrote.

"You should note that 'conversion'... is often carried out through perfectly legitimate means such as a web search."

An ICO spokeswoman said: "If that information was obtained by 'blagging' then it would have been illegal under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act."

News International last night failed to respond to a request for comment on Ms Brooks' requests to Whittamore. Simon Greenberg, a spokesman for the company, said that Ms Brooks would not be stepping down over the hacking of Milly's phone: "This happened back in 2002, she's now chief executive of a company in 2011. She's absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this issue."

He said the company had launched a full inquiry to establish the facts of the hacking of Milly's phone during Ms Brooks' time as editor.

I'm sure that more of Brooks' unscrupulous past will come out ..... :suspect: