share: digg facebook twitter The News of the World was facing claims Tuesday that it hacked into an abducted teenager's phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her murder. Britons are used to seeing their press harass royals, sports stars and celebrities, constantly eavesdropping and paying even the most tangential sources for information about stars' sex lives and drug problems. Dowler's abduction in 2002 while walking home from school in Surrey, south of London, transfixed Britain until her decomposing body was found in the woods by mushroom pickers six months later. [...] while police were pursuing all leads and Milly's parents were making dramatic appeals for any tidbit of information that could be useful, a private investigator working for the News of the World tabloid allegedly hacked into her cell phone, listened to her messages, and even deleted some to make room for possible new ones. Mark Lewis, a lawyer representing Dowler's parents, said Tuesday the suspected hacking may have hampered the police investigation and he plans to sue the tabloid for its interference after Dowler went missing. Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition Labour Party, said Tuesday he was "horrified that the grieving parents of an abducted child were made to go through further torture that somehow she was alive because her voicemails were being retrieved or deleted." After years of denials, the News of the World has admitted to hacking into the cell phone voicemail systems of many celebrities and sports stars and offered cash settlements to some victims. Former deputy prime minister John Prescott and actor Jude Law are among those believed to have been hacked by the tabloid, which has already reached a 100,000 pound ($160,000) cash settlement with actress Sienna Miller, Law's one-time girlfriend.

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