Murder of Milly Dowler
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On 21 March 2002, 13-year-old Milly Dowler went missing from Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England. She was last seen walking home from school along Station Avenue. Following an extensive search, her re
Photograph of Dowler
Dowler was last seen walking along Station Avenue by Walton-on-Thames railway station.
Dowler's remains were located in Yateley Heath Woods near Yateley, Hampshire.
Beginning in the 1990s, and going as far as its shutdown in 2011, employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence i
Murder of Milly Dowler
…in court after Dowler's family criticised the way they were cross-examined during Bellfield's trial. Dowler's murder played a significant role in the News International phone hacking scandal. In 2011, reports revealed how journalists at the News of the World newspaper had accessed Dowler's voicemail after she was reported missing, giving…
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch in 2007
It was reported that the News of the World may have hacked the phones of relatives of 7/7 attack victims (survivors pictured aboard one of the bombed Underground trains).
The Guardian newspaper was at the forefront of reporting on the phone hacking scandal.
The final edition of News of the World, published on 10 July 2011