Tears of joy: Man breaks down when lost voicemail of his deceased wife is recovered

Published January 30, 2015 12:48pm CST

UNITED KINGDOM (WITI) -- When Stan Beaton's wife Ruby died of cancer in 2003, there was one thing he wanted to keep forever -- the voicemail message they shared to let people know they weren't available right now. That's so whenever he wanted, he could hear Ruby's voice.

But according to a BBC News report, some technical work by Virgin Mobile caused that message to be deleted. That was, until the the company's tech team managed to recover the message. Watch as BNN Radio Leeds shared the news of the message recovery with Beaton.