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LONDON — British police knew that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler nine years before the scandal over the practice exploded, an English chief constable said Thursday.
The revelation raises new questions about whether police deliberately overlooked evidence of illegal behavior at the News of the World for fear of jeopardizing their relationship with it and other papers in Murdoch’s powerful media empire.
