It is alleged that in 2002 a Newscorp paper hacked into the voicemail of Milly Dowler, a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered. The newspaper not only intercepted messages left on the phone of the girl, by her increasingly frantic family after her disappearance, but also deleted some of the messages when her voice mailbox became full, thereby making room for new ones and listening to those in turn. This confused investigators and gave false hope to Milly's relatives, who believed it showed she was still alive and deleting the messages herself, Mr Lewis, the family lawyer said. He called the Rupert Murdoch owned newspaper's actions ''heinous'' and ''despicable'' and said the Dowler family suffered ''distress heaped upon tragedy'' upon learning that News of the World ''had no humanity at such a terrible time''. "Journalists" without an ethical compass are to be treated with contempt.