Milly Dowler

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Officers investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal have searched the offices of another tabloid.

Alex Thomson says that following allegations that News of the World tapped Milly Dowler’s mobile phone messages, the wider hacking scandal has been propelled into very dark territories.

The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were contacted by detectives investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World, it has emerged.

The Prime Minister has described allegations that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked as “truly dreadful”. The News of the World’s former editor, Rebekah Brooks, says she is “appalled” by the claims.

Milly Dowler’s family have been told by police that the News of the World may have hacked the phone of their daughter Milly while she was missing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is to examine how victims are treated in court after criticism of the brutal cross-examination of Milly Dowler’s family during the Levi Bellfield murder trial.

Serial killer Levi Bellfield has been told he will die in prison after being convicted of murdering schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Milly’s family described the trial as a “truly horrifying ordeal”.

The uncle who came face to face with Milly Dowler’s killer just hours after she disappeared tells Channel 4 News his family have been “damaged yet again” by the trial.

Levi Bellfield’s former girlfriend, who was with the accused when Milly Dowler went missing, has been giving evidence in the murder trial of Milly Dowler.

Milly Dowler’s older sister knew instinctively that the schoolgirl would never have run away from home or gone off with a stranger, the Old Bailey has heard.

The discovery of a bondage magazine in Milly Dowler’s father’s bedroom led police investigating the schoolgirl’s disappearance on a false trail, the Old Bailey is told.

A student has told the jury in the trial of the man accused of killing Milly Dowler that a man tried to kidnap her the day before the schoolgirl went missing.

The jury in the Milly Dowler murder case hears how the accused Levi Bellfield lived “literally just yards” away from the spot the 13-year-old was last seen.