Less than a week before News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested for her involvement in the phone-hacking scandal that rocked Britain, she received an offer of help from an unlikely source: The country’s former Prime Minister. The Guardian reports:
News Corp. will pay a $3.2 million settlement to the family of Milly Dowler, the girl whose voicemail was hacked into by News of the World reporters after her murder in 2002. The company will also pay an additional $1.6 million to a charity of the Dowler family's choosing.
News Corp paper News of the World already admitted to illegally hacking the cell phones of 24 celebrities. But that's not all they did! The paper also hacked the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler after she'd gone missing—even deleting messages in order to make more room.
