News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian

Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.

Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaire's notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigator's notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target.

Friends of Sara Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends".

The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Sara Payne by Rebekah Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne

[GliderGuider]

1. They gave her a phone and then hacked it?????

Or perhaps it came pre-hacked... And then they opened her up to the humiliation of that final column.

Evil, sick, twisted, conscienceless, sociopathic fucks, the lot of them.

[dipsydoodle]

8. That's the unknown part

All that's known is that the NOWT gave her a phone to use which she still uses to this day. Aside from that the number has now been found on Glenn Mulcaire's list as has Rebekah Brook's own number as well.

Our tv news channels are emphasising that it is only by association the 'phone may have been hacked.

The reason this is so odd is that the relationship between Sarah Payne's mother and the NOTW was such there wouldn't been little if anything to gain by hacking it.

Its always possible that Mulcaire hacked the 'phone for one of the other newspapers the current assumption being that in truth they've all been at it in some shape or form.

[renate]

2. Brooks *gave* her the phone?

OMG. Who'd have thought The News of the World could have gone any lower?

[Botany]

3. One can hope that Ms. Brooks turns on Ruppert.

So the murdered girl's mom was given a "bugged phone" by Ruppert's # 1 girl, Rebekah Brooks?

[PearliePoo2]

4. Filthy scum.

Lock them all up and throw away the key.

[Firebrand Gary]

5. Are you kidding me, they hacked Sara Payne's phone.....UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE

That is just sick, very sick!

News Corp needs to be dismantled, totally and completely....

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Teach your children

and employees well. She's still in jail, right?

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.

[ej510]

9. New Hacking Case Outrages Britain

Source: New York Times

LONDON — Britain was awash in a new surge of outrage over the phone hacking scandal on Thursday, as news emerged that Scotland Yard had added to the list of probable victims a woman whose 8-year-old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000.

The tabloid at the center of the scandal, The News of the World, had championed the campaign of the grieving mother, Sara Payne, for a law warning parents if child sex offenders lived nearby, and she had written warmly of the paper in its final edition, calling it “an old friend.” A statement released on behalf of Mrs. Payne by the Phoenix Foundation, a charity she worked with, described her as devastated and disappointed.

The Guardian was the first to report Scotland Yard’s alert to Mrs. Payne, but the e-mail newsletter Popbitch suggested earlier this month that Mrs. Payne’s voice mail had been hacked and that the phone in question may have been provided to her by the onetime editor of The News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, as part of the campaign for the law.

In a statement, Ms. Brooks confirmed that The News of the World had provided Mrs. Payne with a cellphone “for the last 11 years.” But she said she found the allegations that Mrs. Payne’s voice mail had been hacked “abhorrent and particularly upsetting as Sara Payne is a dear friend.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/world/europe/29hacking.html

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ej.

P.S. What Mr. Leveson fails to realize is the perception of conflict interest, which isn't just limited to his own subjective opinion but of the public as well.

Experience is important but if it's tainted and non other can be found in a nation the size of Great Britain, that should speak volumes about the corruption of the system.

In another sign of how far News International’s influence extends — or has extended, until now — in British public life, it emerged last week that Justice Leveson himself had attended two parties last year at the home of Elisabeth Murdoch, a daughter of Mr. Murdoch, and her husband, Matthew Freud, a powerful public-relations executive.

Justice Leveson said that because he and the rest of the inquiry panel — which includes former journalists and a former high-ranking police officer, among others — had been chosen “for our experience,” it was “inevitable” that “there are such contacts or links, and there should be no apology for this.”

He added, “Had I had the slightest doubt about my own position, I would not have accepted the appointment, and I also make it clear that I am satisfied that what the panelists have said creates no conflict of interest for them or me.”

[ej510]

11. No problem.

[mod mom]

12. Sorry for the family but glad this is back in the news. Rec'd

[Firebrand Gary]

13. News Corporation was clearly very busy in 2000.............K&R

Just unthinkably awful!

[Kingofalldems]

14. Kick and Rec to the top

[ej510]

15. Another phone hacking victim, another blow to Murdoch's power in Britain

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Revelations of another phone hacking victim – the mother of 8-year-old murder victim Sarah Payne – adds to a culture war that pits Rupert Murdoch’s profit-driven ethos against Britain's establishment press.

Former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks (l.) stands next to Sara Payne, mother of murdered girl Sarah, who died at the hands of a pedophile. Payne has been told by detectives that her contact details are on a list compiled by a P.I. used by the News of the World, currently being investigated for illegal phone hacking.

London

At the start of July, Rupert Murdoch was days from acquiring full control of Britain’s most profitable satellite TV, British Sky Broadcasting, known as BSkyB. He already owned 39 percent of it. But a full buyout would clear the way to create a British equivalent of Fox News, the US channel and one of Mr. Murdoch’s biggest cash cows. The step would have marked another triumph for the global Murdoch News Corp. empire. And it had the cultivated support and blessing of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Revelations, starting with the illegally accessed voice mail of a 13-year-old murdered girl, Milly Dowler, quickly grew to include the fact that News of the World (NotW) operatives illegally broke into the phones of some 3,870 people. Public indignation soared over the use of ordinary people’s private tragedies as tabloid fodder. Anger was magnified by evidence of News Corp. executives schmoozing with politicians and police.

On Thursday, Scotland Yard had added another victim to the list – Sara Payne, whose 8-year-old daughter, Sarah, was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000. Ms. Payne’s tragedy was the launching point for a NotW campaign to “name and shame” pedophiles. Payne allegedly received the phone that was subsequently hacked as a gift from Rebekah Brooks, then NotW editor.

>snip

“What Murdoch wants is Fox News here,” says Polly Toynbee, a columnist with the Guardian, a paper that was instrumental, along with The New York Times, in exposing the phone hacking. “He plays off the BBC as old-fashioned and starchy.... We were days away from Murdoch having complete power ... we were headed for a Berlusconi Britain.”





Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0729/Another-phone-hacking-victim-another-blow-to-Murdoch-s-power-in-Britain

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What a piece of shit Murdoch is.

[KeepItReal]

16. Brooks is a cold hearted, backstabbing, snake

eom

[asjr]

17. I don't know how we can get rid

of Murdoch. After all he owns Planet Earth now.

[ej510]

18. Nothing will happen to that human piece of bile.

[Tansy_Gold]

19. I'd like your metaphor better if it were INhuman piece of human bile n/t

[formercia]

20. You can't hack someone that doesn't have a Cell Phone.

So, you give them one.

Beware of Geeks bearing Gifts.

[Firebrand Gary]

21. News Corporation is Morador......

I will leave it to you to figure out the Orks.

[Kelvin Mace]

22. OK, you have made my inner-nerd twitch

Mordor
Orcs

Given the choice, I would cast Murdoch not as Sauron, but as Saruman. His son James gets to play Grima Wormtongue.