Murder & homicide · 2002 · 2000s

Murder of Milly Dowler

In 2002 thirteen-year-old Amanda 'Milly' Dowler was abducted on her way home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, and murdered by Levi Bellfield. The later revelation that her phone had been hacked by the News of the World became a major press-ethics scandal.

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