Britain ‘s Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday that he is shocked by allegations that a British tabloid hacked into the cellphone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler (pictured) after she went missing. “If they are true, this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation,” Cameron said about the latest hacking allegations against the News of the World. (AP Photo)By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press
LONDON – Britain’s voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World was facing claims Tuesday that it hacked into a missing 13-year-old’s phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her abduction and murder.
Britons are used to seeing their press harass royals, sports stars and celebrities, constantly eavesdropping and paying even the most tangential sources for information about stars’ sex lives and drug problems.
Yet the hacking case involving 13-year-old Milly Dowler has horrified everyone, from British Prime Minister David Cameron to movie stars to people who commented on Twitter.
“(It is) shocking that someone could do this, knowing that the police were trying to find this person and trying to find out what had happened,” Cameron said while on a trip to Afghanistan.