i was accused of deleting milly dowler's messages. that was incorrect.n't the only investigator, i wasn't the onlyjournalist at that time investigating milly dowler. do you feel sorry that you hacked the phones of murdered victims? absolutely. my brother was killed, i've lost both parents. of course. absolutely heartfelt. it wasn't crossing a line? it wasn't instructed that way. he or she wasn't a murdered victim at the time, he said this needs to be hacked or this information needs to be laid back to them. there wasn't time to have a conversation of saying, this is regarding that and can you do that? it was actually, can you turn the number around, can you get the information back, and nothing else matters. it was totally, totally carnage. are you comfortable with the fact that some of your whistle—blowers are criminals and liars? you do have to be careful, for obvious reasons, particularly with private investigators, these were people who were paid to blag, to lie for a living by the newspapers. so, as far as possible, you've always got to make sure th

story about how the news of the world had hacked into the voicemail of the missing schoolgirl, milly dowlerole thing over the edge. rupert murdoch, who runs britain's biggest media company, appeared before mps to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal. i would just like to say one sentence. | this is the most - humble day of my life. thank you. the resulting scandal caused the news of the world to close down. i feel so appalled - by what has happened. murder victims, terrorist victims, who've had their phones hacked, | is quite disgraceful. so, the government reacted by setting up the leveson inquiry. there were the most powerful people in the uk, told to sit in front of a microphone, while the world watched online, and talk about what really goes on in their newsrooms. newspaper executives denied any knowledge of illegal activity. we have only seen unsubstantiated allegations and i have seen no evidence to show me that phone hacking has ever taken place at trinity mirror. did you see this sort of thing going on, mr morgan? - no. are you sure about that? 100%. at the end of the da

joined by former detective chief inspector colin sutton, famed for catching the notorious killer of milly dowler patrick christys . we'll start patrick christys. we'll start with you, we'll start with you. colin, great to have you on on the show. this case is absolutely vile. reading the detail of what happened those years ago, it's shocking to anyone. years ago, it's shocking to anyone . how could such a person anyone. how could such a person ever be let out of jail ? ever be let out of jail? >> well, i mean, i think as a general rule, that life should mean life. and you'd probably expect me to think that given that i spent so much time trying to put people there, i think we have to qualify that where the killer is a child , and we have killer is a child, and we have to accept that, to consign somebody to be in prison for 60 or 70 or 80 years is probably something that that we ought to think twice about, so i understand why this happens , i understand why this happens, i think the fact that sarah davey was let out seven times as an aduu was let out seven times as an adult , was let out seven ti