{"id":93449,"date":"2011-12-14T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:28:30","slug":"milly-dowler-case-not-only-reason-for-inquiry-says-leveson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=93449","title":{"rendered":"Milly Dowler case not only reason for Inquiry, says Leveson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Justice Leveson has dismissed claims that the Milly Dowler case was the only reason his Inquiry into press standards and ethics was set up.<\/p>\n<p>Agreeing with the\u00a0lawyer for victims of phone hacking\u00a0David Sherborne, Leveson\u00a0said the past month of evidence of press intrusion and harassment should &#8220;dispel any doubt&#8221; that the hacking and deletion of messages on\u00a0the murdered schoolgirl&#8217;s phone was the only reason the Inquiry was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>This follows what Sherborne dubbed had been a &#8220;storm of misreporting&#8221;\u00a0after the Metropolitan police announced that\u00a0the News of the World may not have deleted the girl&#8217;s voicemails and giving her family\u00a0false hope she was alive.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3997425\/Guardian-blasted-for-sexing-up-hacking-stories.html\">Richard Caseby<\/a>, managing editor of the Sun, accused the\u00a0Guardian of having &#8220;sexed up&#8221; their original coverage of the case in which they reported the News of the World was responsible for deleting Dowler&#8217;s messages.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\u00a0remains uncontested that the tabloid did hack into her phone.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Sherborne told the Inquiry that hacking victims&#8217; solicitor Mark Lewis was contacted on Tuesday evening\u00a0by a Daily Mail reporter who asked him if the Dowler family will be giving money back in light of revisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Dowlers had previously issued a statement through Lewis, stating they had a &#8220;clear recollection&#8221; that the police had told them the now-defunct News of the World had deleted their daughter&#8217;s voicemails.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis told BBC News the reporter&#8217;s actions were &#8220;appalling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Leveson reiterated the significance of the issue, stressing that it was in the public\u00a0interest to\u00a0be resolved in an &#8220;orderly manner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Index on Censorship\u2019s coverage of the Leveson Inquiry on Twitter \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IndexLeveson\">@IndexLeveson.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marta Cooper<\/strong>: Milly Dowler case not only reason for Inquiry, says Leveson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3815],"tags":[2412,4678,3499,2930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109293,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93449\/revisions\/109293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}