Peston plea after raiders steal late wife’s wedding and engagement rings

 
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Rashid Razaq20 December 2012
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BBC Business Editor Robert Peston today revealed that his late wife’s jewellery was stolen in a burglary at his home, as he appealed for help in getting it back.

The journalist took to Twitter hoping to retrieve an engagement and wedding ring belonging to Sian Busby, who died in September at the age of 51 after a long battle with lung cancer.

Burglars broke into Peston’s Muswell Home while he was out with his 15-year-old son Max last night.

The thieves took three rings and a silver necklace which had belonged to his wife, as well as a laptop computer and an iPod.

Peston told the Standard the jewellery had “enormous sentimental value”, and said he and Max were deeply saddened to find they’d been stolen.

He said: “We got home around 11 last night and found the back door had been smashed in. It looks like there might have been a couple of them.

“They took Sian’s Twenties platinum and diamond engagement ring, which used to belong to my grandmother, and a platinum Twenties wedding band.

“They also took a ring that I gave her made out of Welsh gold with the inscription ‘Cariad’ which means darling. And this has really upset Max, they took a silver necklace that says ‘mum’ that he gave her and Sian used to wear all the time.

“It’s not the monetary value at all. The jewellery is completely irreplaceable and has enormous emotional and sentimental value to us.

“I wanted to give those rings to my sons so they could give them to their partners one day.

“It’s just incredibly upsetting and I hope we can get them back.”

Peston married Ms Busby in 1998. She had a son, Simon, from her first marriage. Ms Busby, a novelist, met Peston when they were teenagers and they had a brief relationship, only to get back together years later.

Peston was besotted with his wife, telling The Daily Telegraph that the definition of love was: “How I feel about my wife.”

In an interview with the same paper, she described the “scary” moment she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Ms Busby, who was acclaimed both for her fiction and non-fiction works, was diagnosed with the illness nearly five years ago.

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