{"id":31631,"date":"2013-04-24T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=31631"},"modified":"2013-04-24T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:54:05","slug":"police-covered-up-milly-dowler-phone-hacking-for-almost-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/police-covered-up-milly-dowler-phone-hacking-for-almost-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Ignored Milly Dowler Phone Hacking For Almost A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\"><strong>RINF Alternative News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It emerged today that Surrey police knew that the phone of murdered schoolgirl\u00a0Milly Dowler was being hacked by\u00a0unethical\u00a0News of the World\u00a0journalists in 2002, but failed to act.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Police Complaints Commission found the\u00a0hacking of her voicemail was well known to all ranks of the force including senior officers, within the first few days of the search to find the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that senior officers were \u201cafflicted by a form of collective amnesia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>IPCC deputy chair Deborah Glass said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe will never know what would have happened had Surrey police carried out an investigation into the hacking of Milly Dowler\u2019s phone in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhone hacking was a crime and this should have been acted upon, if not in 2002, then later, once the News of the World\u2019s widespread use of phone hacking became a matter of public knowledge and concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigation has heard from officers and former officers from Surrey police who have expressed surprise and dismay that it wasn\u2019t investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not been able to uncover any evidence, in documentation or witness statements, of why and by whom that decision was made \u2013 former senior officers, in particular, appear to have been afflicted by a form of collective amnesia in relation to the events of 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is perhaps not surprising, given the events of 2011 and the public outcry that the hacking of Milly Dowler\u2019s phone produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it is scarcely credible that no one connected to the Milly Dowler investigation recognised the relevance and importance of the information Surrey police held in 2002 before this was disclosed by Operation Weeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurrey police has apologised to the Dowler family for their failure and they were right to do so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The IPCC blamed the\u00a0\u201cunhealthy relationship between the police and the media\u201d for the failure to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It emerged today that Surrey police knew that the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was being hacked by unethical News of the World journalists in 2002, but failed to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}