The deceased singer Amy Winehouse’s phone was repeatedly hacked in recent years, a reporter claimed last night.

Tabloid reporters hacked into her phone to obtain details of her stays in rehab and when she was expected to arrive at clinics, so photographers could be in place.

Charles Lavery, a former investigative journalist at Scotland’s Sunday Mail reported that her brother was also a victim.

His phone and personal data was mined for potential stories.

A source told Lavery:

Take a look at the acres of coverage of her getting out of taxicabs and walking into rehab. Or walking out of rehab into cabs. How did that happen? Or the details of her time in rehab, her private life. A lot of the time some people close to her sold the info, but her data was accessed on a routine, wholesale basis.

And not just by one newspaper group, by most of them.

A lot of showbiz journalists started covering tracks with the news of her death.

Lavery reported last night that details from Winehouse’s phone were either sold or used to photograph her after treatment.

He also told NME mag that he confirmed the phone-hacking details soon after her death.

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