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Leveson inquiry: Lawyer Tells Of Dowler Milly Damily False Hope [16.11.2011] Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?annotation_id=annotation_732456&add_user=NOTWPhoneHacking&feature=iv For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/#!/NOTW_Hack_News A lawyer has told an inquiry into media ethics of the "euphoria" Milly Dowler's mother felt when she found messages deleted on her daughter's phone. David Sherborne said interception of the murdered schoolgirl's messages by a tabloid investigator was "despicable". Mr Sherborne represents 51 alleged victims of press intrusion and has been addressing Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into media practices in London. The inquiry earlier heard from the editor of the Guardian newspaper. Mr Sherborne said Sally Dowler would tell the inquiry in her own words of the "euphoria" she felt when she logged into her daughter Milly's phone and found messages deleted. He described how the News of the World (NoW) tailed the Dowlers when they went to reconstruct their daughter's last journey. "Mile of grief" was one of several headlines above articles that intruded on the family's anguish and privacy, he said. "What kind of ethics can you teach journalists who hacked into the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl? If the relationship between the public and press is to recover, it must happen now," he added. Mr Sherborne said the experience of his clients was "primarily and largely" at the tabloid or popular end of the press but "it is the whole of the press that stands in the dock". The lawyer said the media had tried to influence politicians and persuade them that less regulation would make journalism better. He said the press had a "self-serving agenda" and accused it of buying, stealing and making up stories. "The press have a very powerful voice and should not be able to drown out the voice of the victims," he warned. "A number of individuals have already been vilified for agreeing to share their experiences with this inquiry." Thanks to the BBC Tuesday 16th November 2011