Leveson Inquiry: Mother of stab victim Abigail condemns media intrusion It was just huge, the amount of coverage. And it was incredibly intrusive. Mrs Witchalls's family received offers of £300,000 for her exclusive story, but turned them down and employed a media handler to manage inquiries from journalists. Baroness Hollins, an eminent psychiatrist who was made a life peer in 2010, criticised insensitive treatment and inaccurate reporting by the media, that included: A journalist who visited her terminally-ill mother and refused to leave until she provided a picture of Mrs Witchalls; The News of the World's disclosure four days after the attack that Mrs Witchalls was five weeks pregnant when she was stabbed - something she did not know herself; A July 2006 story in the Sun that featured photographs taken with a telephoto lens of Mrs Witchalls and her children on a pilgrimage to the French shrine of Lourdes; An article published in the Daily Mail in November 2005 linking the attack on Mrs Witchalls to an assault suffered by her vulnerable brother years earlier; A report in the Sun in April 2009 that Mrs Witchalls had just regained the power of speech, when in fact she began talking again in hospital in 2005. Baroness Hollins told the hearing: "The intrusion seemed really not to have any sensitivity to the fact that we were not in any way seeking publicity. My daughter was not a celebrity. We were dealing with something that was very difficult for everybody to cope with, and here we had this intrusion into our lives and it felt like that intrusion was insensitive. Prosecutors and police announced in November 2005 that 23-year-old Richard Cazaly, who died eight days after the attack from a suspected overdose, would have faced criminal charges over Mrs Witchalls's stabbing. The Leveson Inquiry also heard yesterday that three of the biggest mobile telephone companies in Britain took at least five years to tell customers that their voicemails had been hacked. Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile established that 156 people on their networks were hacking victims after the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman was arrested in August 2006. But fears about prejudicing the police investigation meant that Orange and T-Mobile did not notify those affected until last July - and Vodafone told victims only last month. O2 said it discovered that about 40 of its customers could have had their voicemails illegally intercepted and contacted them five years ago, at the time of the original Scotland Yard inquiry. The press standards inquiry heard that investigations established there were 40 hacking victims on the Vodafone network, 45 on Orange and 71 on T-Mobile. Goodman was jailed along with the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire in January 2007 after they admitted intercepting voicemail messages left on royal aides" telephones.