News media phone hacking scandal evidence seized from Mulcaire back in August 2006. By mid-year, five people were arrested, including senior journalists from "News of the World". In June 2011, the long-ignored issue of computer hacking was addressed by the launching of . Having failed thus far to put the phone hacking issue to rest, News International's law firm, Hickman & Rose, now hired former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails that News International executives had used as the basis of their claim that no one at "News of the World" but Clive Goodman had been involved in phone hacking. Macdonald
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal announced in December 2011 that there was no evidence phone hacking of Milly Dowler's phone by agents of "News of the World" had caused messages to be deleted or give her parents false hope of her being alive, the Australian, which is owned by News International carried the article published by "The Times", also a News International newspaper, strongly critical of "The Guardian" and their investigative reporter, Nick Davies who broke the story. The article raised the question, "whether the paper would still exist if The Guardian had not erroneously blamed it for the Dowlers' false hope." The article contained