Amy Winehouse’s phone was also hacked


8:14 am - July 26th 2011

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The deceased singer Amy Winehouse’s phone was repeatedly hacked in recent years, a reporter claimed last night.

Tabloid reporters hacked into her phone to obtain details of her stays in rehab and when she was expected to arrive at clinics, so photographers could be in place.

Charles Lavery, a former investigative journalist at Scotland’s Sunday Mail reported that her brother was also a victim.

His phone and personal data was mined for potential stories.

A source told Lavery:

Take a look at the acres of coverage of her getting out of taxicabs and walking into rehab. Or walking out of rehab into cabs. How did that happen? Or the details of her time in rehab, her private life. A lot of the time some people close to her sold the info, but her data was accessed on a routine, wholesale basis.

And not just by one newspaper group, by most of them.

A lot of showbiz journalists started covering tracks with the news of her death.

Lavery reported last night that details from Winehouse’s phone were either sold or used to photograph her after treatment.

He also told NME mag that he confirmed the phone-hacking details soon after her death.

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1. Jane Alexander

It’s pretty obvious she was a victim. Her case is similar to poor Paul Gasgoine(?), the ex-Rangers player, who was experiencing terrible symptoms of mental distress, and they were hacking his phone. So I was told.If that is true, it’s really abusive stuff….and everyones line-managers ought to take responsibilty.

2. Sexy Sadie

poor lass

3. David

Would this article have been written if Amy Winehouse was alive.

I think you’re using her tragic death as an excuse to bash Murdoch. Poor taste.

4. steveb

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As if this tragic death is needed to bash Murdoch, do you really believe that there is any further revelation that could make it worse than it already is?

5. sarah

I wondered yesterday about her phone being hacked.

6. Dave

As if this tragic death is needed to bash Murdoch, do you really believe that there is any further revelation that could make it worse than it already is?

Yeah forget about that, we’ve got the deaths of loads of norweigans to celebrate. Im having a party tonight where we are going to be reading the same daily mail articles that Behring Breivik did and hi five and drink a shot every time we can connect him to any far right organisation.


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