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24 July 2011
Last updated at 04:01 ET
Surrey Police removed an officer from the inquiry into Milly Dowler's murder after claims information was leaked to the News of the World, it has emerged.
The force has confirmed a detective was taken off the case after a complaint he had mishandled confidential data.
Thirteen-year-old Milly disappeared as she walked home from school in Walton-on-Thames in 2002. Levi Bellfield was convicted of her murder in June 2011.
Surrey Police said the officer received "words of advice" over the complaint.
It said it had no evidence that the detective constable had passed any information to the News of the World, but that he had spoken about aspects of the investigation to a retired police officer friend.
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch apologised to the Dowler family earlier this month after it emerged the murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World newspaper in 2002.
The paper was shut down over revelations it repeatedly hacked into people's mobile phone messages.
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The force has confirmed a detective was taken off the case after a complaint he had mishandled confidential data.
Thirteen-year-old Milly disappeared as she walked home from school in Walton-on-Thames in 2002. Levi Bellfield was convicted of her murder in June 2011.
Surrey Police said the officer received "words of advice" over the complaint.
It said it had no evidence that the detective constable had passed any information to the News of the World, but that he had spoken about aspects of the investigation to a retired police officer friend.
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch apologised to the Dowler family earlier this month after it emerged the murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World newspaper in 2002.
The paper was shut down over revelations it repeatedly hacked into people's mobile phone messages.
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