Phone hacking: 7/7 disaster victim's mother to sue NoW publisher

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Source: Guardian UK

Phone hacking: 7/7 disaster victim's mother to sue NoW publisher


The mother of a victim of the 2005 London terrorist attacks is suing Rupert Murdoch's media empire after she was told by police that her son's mobile phone is likely to have been targeted by a private investigator working for the News of the World.

Sheila Henry filed a high court writ this week against the paper's owner, News Group Newspapers, alleging that journalists at the tabloid, which closed in July, hacked into a mobile belonging to Christian Small, 28, on the day he was killed by a bomb blast on the London Underground.

Henry left messages on her son's phone on the day of the attacks, in which 52 people died. In common with many of the victims, Small was missing for some time after the initial bomb blasts, and his family were trying to discover where he was.

The news emerged on the same day as fresh revelations in the phone-hacking affair that once again put the conduct of Murdoch's global media group News Corp under intense scrutiny.




Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/13/phone-hacking-disaster-victim-sues

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