LONDON ? A lawyer who represents victims of phone hacking says that the parents of a murdered schoolgirl believe their phones ? as well as their daughter's ? were hacked into.
David Sherborne says that the parents of Milly Dowler believe they were one of many people being spied upon as part of the News of the World's campaign of espionage.
News that the paper had hacked into 13-year-old Dowler's phone was the tipping point in a scandal over the tabloid's wrongdoing.
Sherborne was speaking Wednesday at a judge-led investigation into U.K. media ethics.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
LONDON (AP) ? The British journalists' union has accused Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid of cynically trying to pass off one of its private investigators as a journalist.
The leader of the National Union of Journalists, Michelle Stanistreet, said the now-defunct paper ordered private eye Derek Webb to join the union in what she called a "breathtakingly cynical" move.
Newspapers cut back on the use of such investigators after the first phone hacking arrests in 2006. Disguising Webb as a journalist might have allowed the paper to claim it wasn't employing him as a private eye.
Stanistreet said Webb told the union he was ordered to "stop being a private detective and become a journalist."
Stanistreet was speaking Wednesday at an investigation into U.K. media ethics.
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