Employee of a tabloid newspaper should have listened to the phone of a murder victim
An employee of a Rupert Murdoch owned British newspaper allegedly intercepted the answering machine of a murdered girl. He wanted to get close to exclusive information.
Peter Rasonyi, London
Of the British public and the judiciary has for years moving scandal involving the interception of mobile phone-answering machine from celebrities through the tabloid "News of the World" experience a monstrous extension. As on Tuesday, the daily newspaper "The Guardian" wrote and told the lawyer for the family in 2002, murdered by a sex offender 13-year-old Milly Dowler, should an employee have listened to the newspaper after the disappearance of the girl specifically its mobile phone-answerer in order for material for exclusive stories reach.
The center of power
When the memory was full, messages were deleted, to potentially give the callers the illusion that the girl was still alive and I hear regularly from the stored messages. The British public was shocked. Prime Minister Cameron described the allegations as terrible. He urged the police to complete investigation without fear of the possible consequences.
The wiretapping scandal leads to the center of the most powerful newspaper group in Great Britain, which publishes about 35 percent of nationwide circulation of all newspapers. In addition, News International, the British subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., about to take over the largest private television group BSkyB completely. The current boss of News International, Rebekah Brooks, was editor in chief from 2002 "News of the World". She was shocked on Tuesday and said he did not know. A resignation from the company closed.
The scandal leads to political power center. Shortly before the parliamentary elections in May 2010, Murdoch's company, which also publishes "The Sun" and "The Times" had abandoned his longtime support for the Labour Party and the winners later, the Conservatives face. Cameron's constituency in the living Brooks is considered a friend of the Prime Minister. Eventually forced to resign in January 2011 Cameron Head of Communications, Andy Coulson. During his time as chief editor of "News of the World", the mobile phones had been bugged by celebrities, which is still the subject of court proceedings. Coulson also denied any complicity.
Police idle
Milly Dowler was the girl disappeared in 2002 on the way home from school in his hometown south of London. Six months later his body was found. Only in June 2011 succeeded the murderer, a prison for other sexual crimes already bouncer to convict and condemn the act. As the family lawyer said on Tuesday that the family has only now in connection with this process experienced by the police that Milly's mobile telephone had been bugged 2002nd Neither then nor after the advent of appropriate information in the notebooks of the 2007 convicted of bugging scandal of the late private eye from "News of the World", the police had investigated the information. The British media commission took no action against "News of the World".
