NotW reporter McMullan: "Hacking Milly Dowler's phone was justified"

Paul McMullan, a former News of the World reporter, has defended the newspaper's hacking of murdered Milly Dowler's phone. McMullan, who gained national notoriety in a few Newsnight appearances this summer, has always doggedly defended the hacking practices. He believes privacy laws and hacking bans have been created by a powerful political elite that wants to keep corruption and misbehavoiur away from the frontpages. Although he admits it was wrong to delete messages on Mully Dowler's phone, he doesn't condemn the hacking itself. McMullan says the hacking of Milly's phone could have helped find her or the killer. For the relevant quote scroll to 9min40sec.
(this interview was recorded by Dutch broadcaster NOS)

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• Milly Dowler
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