Sarah Payne and Rebekah Brooks
NoW ‘targeted Sarah Payne mother’s phone’, a gift from Rebekah Brooks
Sara Payne, the mother of the murdered 8-year-old Sarah, has been reportedly told by Scotland Yard that her phone may have been hacked by Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator working for the News of the World.
The phone is believed to have been given to Mrs Payne by Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor who was forced to resign as chief executive of News International in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
The allegations are particularly damaging because Mrs Brooks championed the cause of the Payne family and campaigned for ‘Sarah’s law’, a proposal to allow parents to know if sex offenders live in the area.
Friends of Mrs Payne told the Guardian she was “absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed” by the news.
Tom Watson MP – “The hacking scandal is about to nosedive to a whole new low. How could these people do what they did?”
In the meantime The Guardian reports on the generosity of News International
“Former staff at the News of the World are understood to be underwhelmed by efforts by News International to find them work after they were handed a list of potential jobs which included posts in Siberia, Russia and Dubai”.
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