PUBLIC OUTRAGE FORCES MURDOCH TO PAY MILLIE DOWLER'S FAMILY £2M.

[ladybirder]

Plus another £1m to charity. Good to see public outrage achieving something isn't it?

[craft1948]

If I was Milly's family I would give it all to charity..............

[ladybirder]

You mean so they wouldn't be seen to be gaining from the loss of their daughter craft?

[emmie]

I wouldn't take the money, i know some would say they deserve it, but it's blood money, i would tell them where to stick it. Nothing can compensate for what the hackers did. And it certainly won't bring their beautiful daughter back.

[craft1948]

Exactly LB................it's not going to bring her back is it.

[ladybirder]

I think i might try and put it to some good use, say towards something like the charity set up by Suzy Lamplugh's mother to help woman to keep safe. I certainly accept it, just to make sure NI didn't keep it.

[emmie]

Lb, what's NI? and did you know that suzy Lamplugh's mother died recently, which i thought incredibly sad.

[emmie]

News International, ok?

[mightyWBA]

I'd tell him where to stick it.

[gina32]

id like to know how they can give them 2 million pound but a squaddie who has lost limbs or died a couple of thousand?

[jake-the-peg]

Squaddie's aren't victims - they chose to join the army

Nobody forced them, nobody told them it was a tea party.
Frankly unless there was negligence it's amazing they get compensation at all.

Millie Dowlers family made no choice.

Comparisons with adventure seeking soldiers who end up getting maimed are ridiculous

[ladybirder]

Sorry been busy and just come back. Yes Jake, I agree, absolutely no comparison with gina's point. The Dowlers didn't even go to court for it, public outrage forced NI into making this offer. Seeing Millie's parents on the TV this evening I found harrowing, her mother in particular looks destroyed.
Em I see you got there without me (NI). I really do hope they take it and do something good with it. And yes I did know about Suzy's mother. It must have been her nightmare to go to her grave without knowing what happened.

[grffindoor2011]

Disgusting. I dont see why her family should now live the life of riley because of a simple hack. A couple of thousand would have sufficed.

You talk of public outrage. A group of us down the pub are outraged at this disgusting payout.

[ummmm]

They deserve every penny.

[ladybirder]

Well thank goodness you and your outraged pub mates are in the minority is all I can say griffin.
What a disgraceful post.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I myself am also confused at this massive payout. What is it for exactly? Is it a share of the earnings that NI got from the sales of their papers when they were reporting on the case or something? (By which I mean, they wouldn't have made such massive sales if they'd not had the information they shouldn't have had)

[grffindoor2011]

Further more - They are many people in this country who have been wronged be it botched operations or soldiers maimed, people attacked and left as vegetables and they get bugger all. No-one on earth should be getting millions because of a phone hack. You lot have got caught up in the media frenzy into believing that phone hacking is a greater crime than anything that went on in Nazi Germany. 20k would habe been sufficient be it celebrity or because some sicko has murdered your daughter. Most certainly not millions. The payout most certainy does not fit the crime. Now if Bellfield was ordered to pay 2million for what he did, that would be different.

[emmie]

no idea why you are venting your spleen, most people agree with you

[gina32]

i still think 2 million is a ridiculous amount, well 3 million actually as a million is going to charity

[Twenty20]

jake-the-peg, you've missed the point about the soldiers not getting the same payout as the Dowler family.

The families of soldiers killed and maimed in Afghanistan have also had their phones hacked, the same as the Dowler family (don't you read the news?). Just because one is a teenage girl, does that mean her parents deserve a 2 million pound payout, whereas the same act perpetuated upon a dead soldier's family doesn't. Where's the logic?

Maybe if all the money had been destined to go to charity and not just 1 million out of the 3 million (the Dowler family turned down a previous lower offer to themselves and held out for more money) it wouldn't leave so much of a sour taste in the mouth. Why does it always come down to money?