LONDON — The family of Milly Dowler, the teenage murder victim whose voice-mail messages were illegally intercepted by the tabloid News of the World, has been offered a multimillion-dollar settlement by the newspaper’s parent company, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Monday.
The person said the company, Rupert Murdoch’s News International, had offered about $3.2 million to the Dow ler family, with an additional payment of about $1.6 million to go to charity.
News of the World is believed to have hacked into the voice mails of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people, including Milly Dowler, 13. That disclosure led the Murdochs to close News of the World, the government to open several inquiries and the police to expand a criminal investigation.
