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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong>For decades ordinary people swept up in news stories - many of them bereaved, victims of crime, or targets of terrorist atrocities - have been abused and had their privacy cruelly invaded by of national newspapers.  Their traumas have been exacerbated by the behaviour of newspapers, their injury compounded by intrusion.</strong></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong>Those responsible have never been brought to justice.</strong></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The phone hacking and criminal behaviour of newspapers have often had devastating, lifelong consequences for their victims.  As newspapers profited, they have destroyed their victims’ personal relationships, caused intense paranoia, and irreparably damaged lives.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The industrial scale law-breaking was then compounded with cover-ups, mass destruction of evidence, concealment of wrongdoing, perjury and payoffs.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">The actions of the senior executives who instructed and signed-off on illegal acts have never been properly investigated.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The only hope for justice and for reform is the second and essential part of the Leveson Inquiry, Leveson Part Two.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The victims received firm and unambiguous promises from the Labour Party that Leveson Part Two would go ahead, to deliver justice and make recommendations to ensure press abuse ends, and is never repeated.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Your Government now has a choice.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Will it stand by its promises to those victims, ordinary people, many of them survivors of other traumatic but newsworthy events, or will it ignore them, in the hope of retaining the support of the handful of individuals who own national newspapers and their executives who have so much to fear from an inquiry into their wrongdoing?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Will it back the rule of law, and the principle of justice for all, or does it believe that the press should be above the law, that its owners should receive special treatment?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Will it serve the British people, and root out press corruption through this inquiry, or will it serve the press and capitulate to their interests?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Britain has the least trusted press in Europe.  The National Union of Journalists, free speech campaigners Article 19, and a clear majority of the public all back Leveson Part Two. As does the Inquiry Chair himself, Sir Brian Leveson.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">This Inquiry is what the newspaper industry needs, the victims were promised and the public deserve.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I urge you to proceed with Leveson Part Two now.</p>
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