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16.12.02

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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 大象传媒 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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