On 23 June 2011, Levi Bellfield, who had already had three life sentences with a whole life tariff imposed for the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, all of which had taken place after Milly Dowler's murder, was found guilty of abducting and murdering Dowler and received another whole-life sentence.
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Milly Dowler's murder played a significant role in the News International phone hacking scandal.
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The girls disembarked at Walton-on-Thames railway station, one stop before Milly Dowler's usual stop of Hersham, and went to eat at the station cafe.
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Milly Dowler was last seen three minutes later walking along Station Avenue, by a friend of her sister, who was waiting at a bus stop.
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When Milly Dowler failed to return home, she was reported missing to the police at 7:00p.
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Police and the Milly Dowler family made many appeals for information, including a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch UK.
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The Independent reported in 2011 that Milly Dowler had, some time previously, written a mock leaving-home letter and notes showing she had been unhappy.
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Milly Dowler was sentenced to life imprisonment the following day, and the trial judge recommended a whole life tariff in line with his previous murder convictions three years earlier.
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Rowley said it was a "most bizarre and distressing coincidence" that the Milly Dowler family had their privacy "destroyed", at a time when footballers and celebrities were being granted super-injunctions to protect details of their personal lives.
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Guardian reported on 4 July 2011 that Scotland Yard had discovered Milly Dowler's voicemail had been accessed by journalists working for the News of the World and the newspaper's private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
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The deletions after Milly Dowler was missing led family and friends to think that she was still alive.
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Milly Dowler's parents announced via their solicitor that they would pursue a claim for damages against the News of the World.
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Milly Dowler's Fund commissioned a five-part soap opera titled Watch Over Me, which encourages personal safety for teenagers, to be distributed to every school in the UK.
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Magenta sweet pea was named after Milly Dowler and made publicly available by Matthewman's Sweetpeas.
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