{"id":1837,"date":"2011-07-04T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2011-07-10T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T09:47:17","slug":"milly-dowlers-phone-messages-interfered-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Milly Dowler’s Phone Messages Interfered With"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the latest bit of news leaked from the investigation into the News of the World’s phone hacking scandal, it is alleged that a private investigator hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone and even deleted messages to make space for more messages. Whilst listening to the phone messages of\u00a0celebrities\u00a0is one thing – not a good thing, but sort of understandable – this is well beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

Didn’t anyone at the News of the World stop and think for a moment ? Apparently not, which goes to show that everyone<\/em> at the News of the World at the time must share responsibility in this sordid example of what happens when you give the gutter press a free hand. It’s time to take serious action on this :-<\/p>\n

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  1. Drive the News of the World out of business. Easily done – everyone should refuse to buy a single copy of the newspaper. Even if you like the gutter press, buy something else. And sneer at everyone who does buy a copy. And well done to Ford who have pulled ads from News of the World – lets see more of that!<\/li>\n
  2. Get the investigation into this into the hands of a police force who don’t care and don’t need the co-operation of the London-based press. One of the Scottish forces would work quite well. And tell them there’s no need to be gentle.<\/li>\n
  3. Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. Those responsible should be in jail. This isn’t a freedom of the press issue – this is blatant interference in a serious police investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    According to the latest bit of news leaked from the investigation into the News of the World’s phone hacking scandal, it is alleged that a private investigator hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone and even deleted messages to make space for more messages. Whilst listening to the phone messages of\u00a0celebrities\u00a0is one thing – not a good […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[855,854,849,851,850,856],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-andy-coulson","tag-hackgate","tag-milly-downler","tag-news-of-the-world","tag-phone-hacking","tag-rebekah-brooks","category-12-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-tD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}