Phone hacking: Milly Dowler police investigation may have been targeted

[SwissTony]

Source: The Guardian

Several police officers who investigated the disappearance and murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002 may have had their phones hacked, a lawyer for Surrey police has told the Leveson inquiry.

John Beggs QC, for Surrey police, told a Leveson hearing into the culture, practices and ethics of the press at the high court on Monday there is evidence that officers were targeted.

The force is itself under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission after it failed to tell Scotland Yard one of its officers allegedly passed information about the Dowler investigation to the press.

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It was not previously known that Surrey police may also have had their own mobile phones targeted. The claim was made during a hearing to determine how the inquiry will proceed when witnesses begin giving evidence in two weeks' time.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/31/phone-hacking-milly-dowler-police

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Seems like the journalists didn't restrict themselves to the phones of the victims. They hacked the cops' phones as well.

[Ian David]

1. That should go over well. n/t

[brooklynite]

2. I think someone senior's going to jail...