The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has been told she may be a victim of the News of the World hacking scandal.
The Guardian newspaper has reported that Sara Payne, who was living in Hersham at the time of her eight-year-old daughter’s abduction, may have been targeted by the paper’s investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Police have allegedly found evidence in his notes that relate to a phone Rebekah Brooks gave to Mrs Payne as a present.
Friends have told the Guardian she is “absolutely devastated”, and only this month she defended the newspaper, which championed the Sarah’s Law campaign.
In a column written in the paper’s last edition on July 10, she referred to its staff as her “good and trusted friends”.
The news comes just weeks after it was alleged Walton schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages were listened to and deleted on behalf of the Sunday national.
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