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divdiv class=story-body readability=97 span class=story-date#13; span class=date5 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time13:05 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1The News of the World's managing editor told police the newspaper listened to murdered girl Milly Dowler's voicemail while she was still thought to be missing, a jury has heard./p#13; pStuart Kuttner called Surrey Police on 13 April 2002 to inform them a recruitment agency in Telford had left the message on the 13-year-old's phone./p#13; pMr Kuttner urged police to check the lead, the Old Bailey was told./p#13; pHe has denied the charge of conspiring to hack phones./p#13; pMr Kuttner, 73, of Woodford Green, Essex, was the News of the World's managing editor for 22 years. He was not in court on Tuesday due to ill health./p#13; span class=cross-head'Professional hoaxer'/span#13; pIn his absence, the court heard that Mr Kuttner told officers the newspaper had gained access to Milly's mobile phone number and pin and had told them about the call from the recruitment agency./p#13; pPolice told him the message was thought to have been left by a professional hoaxer - a claim that was repeated on page nine of the tabloid the following day./p#13; pLater on 13 April, chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck also called police and confirmed that the newspaper had access to Milly's voicemail, had obtained the number from sources and that it intended to run the story the following day, the jury of nine men and three women heard./p#13; p id=story_continues_2Giving evidence, a senior Surrey Police press officer, Sarah McGregor, later told the court that Mr Kuttner and Thurlbeck - who has already pleaded guilty to phone hacking - had contacted Surrey Police./p#13; pShe said she was told by an officer that Mr Kuttner had offered the force significant information./p#13; pThe officer claimed Mr Kuttner had also said the newspaper had Milly's mobile and pin numbers./p#13; pMs McGregor added that Thurlbeck had said the newspaper had obtained Milly's mobile number and pin number from school children./p#13; pMs McGregor, who was relying on notes made at the time, was challenged on her account by Jonathan Kaplan QC representing Mr Kuttner. /p#13; pHe argued that in her notes she had recorded that the NotW stated - not that Mr Kuttner had stated./p#13; pNotW is a substitution for Mr Thurlbeck, he said. That should be Mr Thurlbeck stated. /p#13; pBut Ms McGregor responded that that was not the case and her notes were accurate./p#13; pThe court also heard that a week after the initial contact with the police about Milly, Mr Kuttner sent an email to Ms McGregor in which he admitted: ... we passed on information about messages left on Amanda Dowler's mobile phone... in addition, we advised of other messages left on this number and we offered a copy of a tape recording of the messages and other assistance. /p#13; pUnder cross-examination, Ms McGregor said no officer from the Surrey Police to her knowledge had considered investigating the News of the World for phone hacking./p#13; span class=cross-headDubai socialising/span#13; pShe said she had not considered raising the possibility that hacking was illegal, telling the court, I'm not a detective./p#13; pIn the News of the World's first edition, the story quoted the voicemail message left by the recruitment service which said: We're ringing because we've got some interviews starting, can you call me back? Thank you, bye bye./p#13; pBy the second edition the text of the message had been edited out, while third edition focused on outrage at the possibility that it had been a hoax, the court heard./p#13; p id=story_continues_3The court heard that the paper's former editor Rebekah Brooks was in Dubai on 13 April but there was alleged contact between her and colleagues, including her then deputy Andy Coulson./p#13; pMrs Brooks and Mr Coulson both deny conspiracy to hack phones./p#13; pAnother witness, William Hennessy, told the court he had met Mrs Brooks through a friend while on holiday in Dubai in April 2002./p#13; pWhile socialising on one occasion, he said she had made her excuses to leave and he had overheard her saying she had something to do with the missing Surrey schoolgirl./p#13; span class=cross-headEmails published/span#13; pEarlier, the court a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24817195published three emails/a between the News of the World's then head of news Ian Edmondson and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, which prosecutors say show the former tasked Mulcaire with phone hacking./p#13; pMr Edmondson, 44, from Raynes Park, south west London, also denies conspiracy to phone hack./p#13; pLast week, the court was told that the first email message between Mulcaire and Mr Edmondson, on 20 April 2006, referred to MP Tessa Jowell and her husband Mr Mills, at a time when he had been accused of involvement in bribery linked to former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi./p#13; pIt said: Substantial traffic both ways, also looks like she's selling up./p#13; pAnother message, from 27 April 2006, referred to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and contained a reference to press * and Pin, which prosecutors say was Mulcaire telling Mr Edmondson how to hack a phone./p#13; pThe third email referred to an adviser to former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott, who was at the centre of a publicity storm because he was accused of having an affair./p#13; pMr Coulson, 45, of Charing, Kent, who also denies conspiracy to commit misconduct, left the newspaper industry in 2007 and went on to become Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director./p#13; pMrs Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, who was editor of the News of the World between 2000 and 2003, and her PA Cheryl Carter, 49, of Chelmsford Essex, both deny perverting the course of justice./p#13; pMrs Brooks denies a second similar charge, along with her husband Charlie Brooks and News International's former head of security, Mark Hanna. She and Mr Coulson also deny separate charges of conspiracy to commit misconduct./p#13; pThe trial continues./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center