Murdered Milly Dowler’s voicemail ‘hacked by NOTW’

A PRIVATE detective working for the News of the World is accused of hacking into Milly Dowler’s voicemail after she went missing and deleting messages, a lawyer for the murdered schoolgirl’s parents said yesterday.

Scotland Yard officers contacted Sally and Bob Dowler about the allegations in April, a month before Levi Bellfield went on trial for her murder, solicitor Mark Lewis said.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is alleged to have illegally accessed Milly’s phone messages after she was abducted by Bellfield as she walked home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002. Mulcaire also allegedly interfered with police inquiries into her disappearance by deleting messages from the voicemail account.