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    Hacking: Six Charities To Share Milly's £1m

    Six charities will share a £1m donation from Rupert Murdoch as part of the settlement agreed with the family of Milly Dowler after the News Of The World allegedly hacked her phone.

    Sky News has learned that half the money will go to children's hospice Shooting Star CHASE , which is close to the murdered schoolgirl's family home in Surrey.

    The remainder is going to a handful of other good causes associated with Milly.

    The Suzy Lamplugh Trust , named after the London estate agent who disappeared 25 years ago and who is presumed dead, will receive £100,000.

    Another £100,000 will go to Child Victims Of Crime and £100,000 more to Cancer Research.

    Brain Tumour UK will receive £100,000 with the remaining cash going to Milly's local swimming pool, the Hampton Pool Trust .

    A spokesman for the pool told Sky News: "The donation will have a huge impact on the services we provide to the community.

    "We're aware that it is being made in memory of Milly and we are determined to ensure that the money is invested in a fitting way."

    The Dowler family's lawyer, Mark Lewis, said: "It was made clear from the outset that any money received for Milly Dowler would go to charity."

    News International agreed the payout after Milly's family met Rupert Murdoch earlier this year. He said he was "appalled" at what had happened and apologised unreservedly.

    None of the charities has yet received the money but all the paperwork is in place and the payout is imminent.

    Mr Lewis said all the beneficiaries have some link to Milly herself.

    "The donation to Cancer Research and the brain tumour charity are because her Godfather, unfortunately, died as a very young man from a brain tumour."

    The Suzy Lamplugh Trust helped the family when Milly disappeared, and she used to swim at the Hampton Pool.

    The Hospice and Child Victims Of Crime clearly reflects the fact that Milly was just a child herself when she was murdered. She was just 13.

    Former Bouncer Levi Bellfield is serving life for her murder.

     

    30 comments

    • PatSyCola -  •  7 months ago
      Dont lets try to make this "donation" look like a good deed from Murdochs NI company. ALL OF THIS HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE OF CRIMINAL ACTIONS BY NI. Call it what it is, a punishment or a fine for wrong doing. Full credit to the Dowler family for making it happen
    • F  •  7 months ago
      Not knowing the full story behind the payment and in answer to some postings below, it would seem possible that Milly's family did not want to profit from the tragic death of their daughter which to me is magnanimous.
      • Kurt 7 months ago
        Ermmm, the total payout was £3 million of which the Dowlers have personally trousered £2 million which is a nice little earner.
      • Farmer Giles 7 months ago
        Kurt. Nice little earner, their daughter is dead you total idiot.
      • perfect 7 months ago
        i agree there daughter is dead but she is also dead without the 2 million
    • Wills  •  7 months ago
      Some of Murdoch's damage limitation plans are ahving a good effect. When The Sun is closed for hacking rather than just The Sunday Sun known as The News of The World. and other tabloids start to act morally we might begin to improve matters in this country.
    • Ayten  •  7 months ago
      Shame on Murdoch and whilst I am reminded of the on-going corruption within our Government.

      The Dowler Family have set a standard politicians would do well to heed !
    • PAM  •  7 months ago
      Murdoch is hanging on for dear life (BUT HE IS DOOMED)
      • A Yahoo! User 7 months ago
        I think he has to go. There was a meeting of shareholders (or is it about to happen) and he and his brat son should have been kicked out of town then..... lest the whole of News International gets attacked by the FBI as unfit to broadcast.

        Actually I cannot understand how come he continues to be allowed control of ANY UK media broadcasting -- he is patently unfit and if not him them his corporation takes the can.
    • JaneyJ  •  7 months ago
      Charitable donations just go to pay the directors' salary and for admin costs. Total rip off. I know; I used to work for the RSPCA. Each local group has to give the first £15k of anything raised straight to the RSPCA HQ, and only then do your £1 coins go to the local doggy home. That is a lot of work by little old ladies shaking tins outside Tesco.......for nothing.
      • Anna J 7 months ago
        You've got inside info here JanyJ but only about one charity. If people want to give to a charity they need to do some research first to see how much of the money they give will actually go the cause and not just to admin. There's no problem with admin costs in my opinion - provided they are kept as low as possible. Every charity will need some paid staff - but not too many.
      • Andrew 7 months ago
        I prefer to donate locally. I personally know one lady who runs a local charity and I can assure you none of her staff gets paid, it is all run by volunteers. They are the people I now donate to, where every penny will go where it is intended for and thery can do the maximum amount of good. Many national charities are bloated money-making factories. .
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 months ago
      SKY-Murdoch: "a £1m donation from Rupert Murdoch"

      Er, if Murdoch has shelled out £3-4million to compensate the Dowlers for the hacking of their dead daughter's phone.... surely they must be tantamount to an admission of guilt for the hacking. So, Murdoch admits guilt yet the Shareholders have not yet kicked him out of the Boardroom..... very odd that they continue to have his as their main man.
    • Anon  •  7 months ago
      The Dowler family are such amazing people.
      They have shown strength, courage and compassion.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 months ago
        LOL you are a joke and they are grave diggers. Complete and utter scruffs. Only a true scabby b'a's't'a'r'd would be able to spend that money.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 months ago
        If they had real strength, they would NEVER let those toerags off the hook, not even for
        £2 or £3 or £4 million hush money. They would take him all the way and NOT GIVE UP ON THE MAN.

        No, not strength. Grabbers, basically, robbing the coffin while it is still warm.
      • Anon 7 months ago
        These comments show you for the ignorant people that you are.
    • John  •  7 months ago
      Murdoch just buys his way out of all problems...he needs to be prosecuted over and over till all his money runs out! Drain this unethical and amoral moron!
    • Len G  •  7 months ago
      when all this broke, I reported when in public view he was acting with a change of affect, as such from a psychological perspective it is as close to certainty the normal sence a person with any humanistic feeling would have, unless they were guilty. This payment is a way of accepting his guilt, but note only a milion, if he had any common sence of humility to fellow man, it should at least be 20% of his gross revenue, this amount is less than 1%.
      • Tim 7 months ago
        If you could spell 'sense', then viewers of your post would be more inclined to believe you had some.
      • JIM 7 months ago
        Len G: never mind your spelling - you don't even make 'sence'.

        Look at what you wrote.

        Do you really think it means anything?

        "he was acting with a change of affect" ('affect' is a verb, by the way, not a noun).

        "as such from a psychological perspective it is as close to certainty" (eh?)

        These statements are gibberish.

        You begin by claiming "when all this broke, I reported..."

        To whom?

        When?

        In which publication?

        Are you claiming to be some sort of journalist?

        I wish you'd understand that posting on here, while it might make the words look neat and tidy, doesn't actually turn them into coherent English.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 months ago
      SKY-Murdoch: "Six charities will share a £1m donation from Rupert Murdoch"

      QUESTION, did Rupert Murdoch pay this cash out of his OWN personal bank accounts, or was it paid out by NEWS INTERNATIONAL?

      I suspect that it was paid by News Intentional and NOT out of Rupert's pocket, in which case this SKY-Murdoch news report is as crooked and twisted as we have grown to expect from these masters of misinformation and manipulation of information. Typical of the man, trying to extract maximum PR, even in the case of the ghoulish hacking of the intimate personal life of a murdered girl.

      These foreigners are not fit to circulate news in this country and should be restricted accordingly.
    • GEOF  •  7 months ago
      I'll bet that "FESTIVAL BANNERS" will festoon these Charities Events, ALL proclaiming "MURDOCH/NEWS INTERNATIONAL" !! Why no "utterly any-mouse" donation ??
    • easy Item  •  7 months ago
      Is Mr Lewis telling us the truth.
    • Alex  •  7 months ago
      The Dowler Family I am sure have made Milly proud that they managed to get Mr.Murdoch to Donate to Charity. I have helped Shooting Star Chase, it's a great cause. Well done.
    • Tony  •  7 months ago
      Some people on here just need their brains looking at. The family hasnt profited from this - unlike the News International scumbags who hacked the phone in order to get a story
    • Wally  •  7 months ago
      He must be going soft in his old age.
    • dkw don  •  7 months ago
      Very nice can some one please watch them and make sure that ALL the money does go and is used for the correct Charity.
      But the Question must be Why are there so many Charities needed in this Country ?.
    • SOUTHERN LASS  •  7 months ago
      You will probably shoot me down in flames, but the donation is from Rupert Murdoch, as part of settlement agreement with the Dowlers. They will still receive about 2million.
    • STU  •  7 months ago
      The Dowler family, true humanitarians. Rupert Murdoch would do well to follow their example.
    • Tim  •  7 months ago
      Charity is a con. Wake up people.