Fiancee’s frantic search for rings
A FIANCEE has told of her frantic three-day search to find three missing rings.
Lucy Brock, 36, was heartbroken when her silver diamond engagement ring, 21st birthday white and gold twisted band ring, and vintage gold with two diamonds ring - inherited by her late gran - slipped off and disappeared.
The ‘irreplaceable’ jewellery fell from Lucy’s lap - who placed them there while putting on hand cream - as she sprung out of the car to pick up her mum for their first wedding dress appointment in Stockport.
Lucy searched the area, reported the missing rings to police, posted a £500 reward appeal on Facebook and put up a sign in her mum’s living room window. The vet, from Heaton Moor, feared she would never see the precious jewellery again. However, three days later while working she received a call from her mum.
Lucysaid : “I burst into tears at work when mum rang me to tell me they’d been handed in.
“I was convinced they had been stolen and was in utter disbelief to begin with. All three of them had been turned in and it made me so emotional and truly overjoyed.
“I was beyond delighted to get them back and to see them myself. It stores a little bit of faith in humanity and I told my mum ‘angels do exist’.”
Carmel Serridge, 63, had been walking her dog and looking down to avoid the bright sunlight when she saw something glistening on the curb. She said: “I saw the rings and picked them up out of the road, but it wasn’t until I got home I realised these were valuable and clearly important. I hesitated to reach out on Facebook or knock on doors people are quick on their feet to claim and I was worried they wouldn’t be returned to the right owner.
“It wasn’t until a few days later that I saw a big sign outside a residence asking for the rings that I rushed home to return them. I was relieved it was me that picked them up - I’m aware other people may have not returned them.”
Fiance Kieran Geoghegam, 37, had proposed to Lucy on a Peak District holiday in August, and chose the ring himself.
Lucy said: “I was devastated to lose them, it’s the sentimental value and you think is this really happening? There’s so much emotion linked to my engagement ring - even if we had made them again it’s not the same ring.” She realised the rings had disappeared as she headed to her wedding appointment. However, despite only a few minutes gap between the incident and recognition of what had happened, Lucy and her mother, Margaret Brock, spent hours searching for the three rings on the pavement.