Phone hackers 'snooped on Soham families'

The parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been warned by detectives that their mobile phone voicemails may have been intercepted by a private detective working on behalf of the News of the World.

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, murdered in Soham Photo: BRIAN SMITH

By Mark Hughes, John Bingham, Victoria Ward and Duncan Gardham

10:00PM BST 05 Jul 2011

Scotland Yard was understood to have contacted the parents of the two young girls murdered by Ian Huntley in Soham after finding mobile telephone numbers belonging to family members in files seized from Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator working for the Sunday newspaper.

Last night, The Daily Telegraph learnt that detectives were also contacting the families of victims of the July 7 bombings in London in 2005 amid concerns that they may have also been targeted.

It was also alleged that Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World at the time and is now the chief executive of News International, personally commissioned one of the private investigators used by the tabloid and who was involved in tracing the family of Milly Dowler, the teenage murder victim.

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