News International to pay $3.2 million to family of murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked

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CASSANDRA VINOGRAD
Associated Press
11:25 a.m. CDT, October 21, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch's company said Friday it has agreed to pay 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the tabloid News of the World.

News International and the family of Milly Dowler confirmed the settlement in a joint statement. It said Murdoch also will donate 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) to charities chosen by the Dowler family, including youth and cancer research groups.

Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old News of the World in July after evidence emerged that its reporters had eavesdropped on the telephone voice mail messages of the 13-year-old who disappeared in 2002 and was later found murdered.

That touched off a storm of public outrage that rocked Murdoch's media empire and ricocheted through Britain's political, police and media establishments.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-eu-britain-phone-hacking,0,5979064.story

[krispos42]

1. It's a start, but to Murdoch it's couch-cushion change n/t

[malaise]

2. They'll have to pay off lots more people

Watch and see.

[Fumesucker]

3. Didn't they actually delete messages from the girl's phone? n/t

[rainbow4321]

5. Yes, they did

Her voicemail box was full because of people leaving her messages (looking for her, I assume) so the asswipes at the paper deleted them so more people could leave messages that that they could listen to.

Meanwhile, every time police/family saw a message deleted, they assumed she was ALIVE somewhere and deleting the messages when she was actually already dead :( ALL because of the fucking newspaper's actions.

I cannot even imagine having my hopes raised like that my daughter was alive only to find out otherwise...

[vets74]

4. If they had sued, this would be $200-million.

If I was on the jury....