Diana's
mother to appeal through Crimewatch UK for return of jewellery worth
over 拢100,000
An
appeal is to feature on Crimewatch UK on 91热爆 ONE on Wednesday 18
December 2002 to trace thousands of pounds of jewellery stolen from
Princess Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd.
Mrs
Shand Kydd had left her home in the Island of Seil, near Oban in
Argyleshire, to attend the trial of royal butler Paul Burrell.
The
following morning her housekeeper discovered the house had been
broken into. All of Mrs Shand Kydd's jewellery and some Euro currency
were stolen.
The
jewellery is of huge emotional worth to her and worth more than
拢100,000.
The
pieces stolen included a bracelet belonging to Mrs Shand Kydd. Diana
admired the bracelet so much her mother had a replica made for her,
which Diana wore on her wedding day.
Other
items stolen included a pearl choker Mrs Shand Kydd wore at Diana's
wedding and a pair of aquamarine and diamond drop earrings given
to Mrs Shand Kydd from Earl Spencer.
Mrs
Shand Kydd will be interviewed by telephone on the programme and
will be supplying photographs of the missing items.
The
Crimewatch UK team will appeal for the public to be on the look
out for the items and to come forward with any information as to
who was behind the theft.
A neighbour
walking her dog on the night of the burglary had seen a man she
did not recognise outside Mrs Shand Kydd's house.
Becoming
suspicious she questioned him and he told her that he was staying
in a nearby hotel. Police have checked the hotels and found no trace
of the man.
Appeals
placed in newspapers for him to come forward have met with a negative
result.
He
is described as mid twenties to thirties, 5' 7" in height,
medium build, wearing a woollen hat, a dark jacket and jeans. He
spoke with a west of Scotland accent, possibly Glaswegian.
Crimewatch
UK will also feature the horrific murder of Wayne Trotter, 30, who
was doused with petrol and set alight in a narrow alley yards from
his home on the Farriers estate in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
The
unprovoked attack happened as he returned from work earlier this
month.
Neighbours
were woken by screams and found him staggering around in flames
trying to get help. Paramedics rushed him to hospital but he died
12 hours later.
Wayne
and his wife, Anne, have a three-year-old son and his wife is six
months pregnant. His mother Vicky Trotter, will make an appeal from
the studio for any clues behind her son's murder.
Police
want to trace a gang of three or four youths who were seen hanging
around the estate at around the time that Wayne was attacked.
Officers
are trying to plot all the movements of people on the estate between
9.00pm on 4 December and 3.00am on 5 December.
They
would also like to trace anyone who saw Wayne on his journey home
that night, particularly a woman who was on the same bus and alighted
at the same stop.
An
appeal will also be made to find a man who followed a woman when
she was walking her baby outside a christening at a church hall,
grabbed her from behind and indecently assaulted her.
The
attack took place off Liverpool Road, Lydiate, near Liverpool at
about 3.30pm on 5 October.
The
woman had taken the baby for a walk as he was getting cranky at
the christening.
She
was confronted by a male, pushed over a small wall and sexually
assaulted but managed to scream and fight the man off, drawing strength
from hearing her son crying in his pram.
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