Why the Press Must Stay Free ; After a Week of Drama at the Leveson Inquiry ... The Dowlers Moved the Nation Last Week. Sunday Sun Editor Matt Mckenzie Says, Despite Everything, We Must Protect the Freedom of the Press ... And Pursue Those Breaking the Law.

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"SHE'S picked up her voicemails, Bob. She's alive."

Let these words shame us all. They were spoken by Milly Dowler's mum, Sally, last week at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards as she recalled what she said to her husband the moment she found her missing daughter's voicemails had been deleted, prompting her to cling on to the possibility she was still alive. The desperate optimism in her voice was heartbreaking, the sound of false hope at a time when hope was all the Dowlers had to cling to.

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Why the Press Must Stay Free ; After a Week of Drama at the Leveson Inquiry ... The Dowlers Moved the Nation Last Week. Sunday Sun Editor Matt Mckenzie Says, Despite Everything, We Must Protect the Freedom of the Press ... And Pursue Those Breaking the Law.

It was painful hearing it at a government inquiry; imagine what it was like for her at the time.

They are words that have prompted this article.

The tabloid press is a fine British tradition, but this was an immoral act, unethical and, bluntly, against the law....

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