News Of The World Targeted Phone Of Sarah Payne's Mother - UKGuardian

News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother
Exclusive: Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had personal details of murdered girl's mother
Nick Davies and Amelia Hill
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 July 2011 19.51 BST

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Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting in 2000. The mobile phone details of her mother, Sara, have been found in Glenn Mulcaire's notes. Photograph: PA

Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.

Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaire's notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigator's notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target.

Friends of Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends".

The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Payne by Brooks to help her stay in touch with her supporters.

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More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne

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My heart goes out to this poor woman. Just when you think things News Corp employees were doing couldn't get any slimier...

That's simply FAR too much of a "coincidence." Most likely, using the phone to gather information was her intention from the first.