THE sister of a woman killed in the London bombings six years ago today said reports victim’s mobile phones may have been hacked “heaped insult on top of injury”.

Yesterday it emerged staff at the News of the World were accused of being involved in listening to voicemail left on the mobile phones of people missing after the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005.

It came after Monday’s revelation that the newspaper is suspected of hacking into the phone of murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002.

Esther Hyman, 42, from Cowley, lost her sister Miriam, 32, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Tavistock Square.

She said: “It has to be distressing for anyone to have their privacy intruded upon and illegally.

“From the perspective of the 7/7 families, it is more insult heaped on top of injury.

“To be honest, when I first heard about the possibility they had their phones hacked I just sighed.

“It’s like another step in the story of 7/7 and I’m resigned to the fact that there will be never-ending stress.

“But it’s something I’m not going to let distress me. Especially with the news breaking the day before the anniversary.”

The hacking scandal has been unfolding since 2006. Miss Hyman said: “It has gone from the realm of celebrity into a much more sinister realm and everyone apart from the perpetrators finds it abhorrent.”

But she said the media had treated her family well. She added: “I have to say that in all this time, in the six years, we have always felt we have been treated very well and with respect.”

John Lloyd, director of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, said the scandal was now a much bigger story.

He said: “This takes it out of the vilified institutions of celebrity and politics and brings it down to ordinary citizens and gives it a much greater resonance with ordinary people.

“This denies them the basic right of either accepting or refusing the advances of the journalist. It is undercover spying on someone who is at their most vulnerable.”

Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron yesterday told Parliament there should be an inquiry into the claims.

He said: “It’s absolutely disgusting, what has taken place, and I think everyone in this House and indeed this country will be revolted by what they have heard and what they have seen on their television screens.”