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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jim Waterson Media editor

Doreen Lawrence claims Daily Mail hired investigators to hack her phone

Doreen Lawrence outside the Royal Courts of Justice
Doreen Lawrence’s lawyers said she ‘feels used and violated, and like she has been taken for a fool’. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Doreen Lawrence has claimed the Daily Mail hired private investigators to hack her phone and obtain information on her murdered son, potentially disrupting the police investigation into the racially motivated killing.

Lady Lawrence now believes she “failed her murdered son” by trusting the Daily Mail during the 1990s, claiming the news outlet only campaigned for justice on behalf of Stephen Lawrence in a cynical bid to sell more newspapers.

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