The Guardian has today published a Comment is Free post defending the practice of phone hacking, written by former Sun journalist Damien McCrystal.
Alongside the rather tired argument that 'celebrities want their privacy invaded' is this rather more contentious claim that private investigators raiding the voicemail of dead schoolgirl Milly Dowler were merely showing the police how to do their jobs properly:
"Regarding the most shocking revelation of them all, that Milly Dowler's voicemail was allegedly hacked into on behalf of the News of the World, there is a valid ...journalistic justification... If it is true... that private detectives deleted some messages in order to allow new ones in, then any new message might have carried a clue as to the child's whereabouts and indeed our increasingly beleaguered police might have thought of this for themselves."
It is perhaps no surprise that at least one reader comment posted below the article begins: "How fucking dare you..."
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