LONDON - News Corp Rupert Murdoch supports his most senior employee of the newspaper in the UK, Rebekah Brooks, to to see the company through its phone hacker scandal, he described Wednesday as regrettable.
He said "the recent allegations of phone hacking and payments police in relation to the news of the world are regrettable and unacceptable," in a statement.
"I have made it clear that our company must cooperate fully and proactively with the police in all, this is exactly what has done news international and will continue to do leadership under Rebekah Brooks."
The British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the alleged hackers a murdered schoolgirl voicemail by the news of the world on Tuesday, as the scandal on a top manager of News Corp and Murdoch his closed.
The time was that the Prime Minister should find, while commenting on a visit to troops in Afghanistan a measure of the riot at home was sentenced on notes that the tabloid hampered police and one 13-year-old added have the killer kidnapped may in 2002, only last month the agony of family.
Among the facing new questions about their behavior Brooks, is crime at the time of the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler - one of the UK's highest profile in years.
Brooks has so far thought only indirectly engaged in inquiries by the police in the hacking of mobile mailboxes by journalists and investigators of the news of the world.
A senior opposition politician and the schoolgirl family lawyer including Brooks demanded to withdraw. But in a memo to News Corp employees, she said she was determined to lead the company through the crisis.
The escalation of the scandal is a key moment in parent company News Corp planned multi-billion-dollar acquisition by BSkyB, due to be approved after a final consultation of this week by the Government.
Cameron, on a visit to Afghanistan, in conversation with journalists, said on Tuesday: "On the question about the really frightening allegations about the phone of Milly Dowler, if they are true, this is a really horrible act."
A lawyer for the family of Dowler said on Monday that he learned that the schoolgirl had voicemail messages was hacked from police, while its police were looking for.
Their killer, a man with a record of other sex attacks last week was found guilty of her murder.
British media have a newspaper investigators not only listened phone after she went missing, but possibly some deleted for place to create news links on the teenager said for more - potentially misleading police and false hope to give to her family, was still alive and free.
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