The sister of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler responded to this week’s phone-hacking trial verdicts by highlighting how ordinary people have “suffered terribly” as a result of illegal activity by some journalists.
Gemma Dowler said that crimes were being commited on a “major scale” in some areas of the press and criticised newspaper groups for the creation of the Ipso press regulator, which opposes the UK government’s Royal Charter press regulation legislation.
“We have known for ages that serious crimes were being committed on a major scale in parts of the press,” she said.
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Source: The Drum