It all unraveled when The Guardian reported that the tabloid had hacked into the voicemail of missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler, apparently in the hope of obtaining some private expressions of family members’ grief or desperation that it could splash on its front page. When the girl’s murdered body was found six months later, the family and the police thought she might still be alive, because The News of the World’s operatives were deleting messages when her phone’s mailbox became full.
这个八卦小报窃听13岁失踪儿童Milly Dowler的语音信箱以便获取其家人的绝望言论作为头条，不料却被《卫报》发现并公诸于世。因为《世界新闻报》的操作人员在女孩语音信箱已满的时候删除了一些信息，以至于当这个小女孩的尸体在失踪6个月后被发现之时，家属和警方都以为她可能还活着。（根据伦敦警务处总部的报告，默多克同时还窃听了那些据报受到了贿赂的中级警务人员以获取信息。）