“If you have a heart, please bring it back,” said a mother with a broken heart after the thieves took the urn containing her first child’s ashes
A devastated mother begged the thieves to return an urn carrying her deceased daughter’s ashes. “If you have a heart, please bring it back,” the lady asked, sending a heartwarming message.
The burglary of Catherine Farrell-Breen’s home, on Clopton Road Garretts Green, Birmingham, devastated her. The thieves attacked between 2pm and 7:20pm on Thursday, while the mother of two children was at work.
They stole 384 pounds in coins from a jar and a Nintendo Switch after breaking into a back door. They also seized an urn that had been placed on top of a closet and contained her daughter’s ashes.
The woman lost her first child 10 years ago
The mom, who has two daughters, Loretta, eight, and Larissa, seven, has now made an urgent request to return the urn. BirminghamLive quoted her as saying: “I’m heartbroken. Phoenix was my first child, and she died shortly after birth. In August, she would have turned ten. The ashes are kept in an urn in my bedroom, which I treasure. The urn has no value. They presumably assumed it was an expensive vase because of the golden tint, so they stole it. It isn’t valuable in terms of money, but it means the world to me.”
Police in the West Midlands have also issued an appeal. “We seek for your support in finding a stolen urn like the one in the picture,” they wrote on Twitter on Thursday night. “It was taken earlier today during a break-in on Clopton Road in Birmingham’s Garretts Green neighborhood. We are desperate to collect the urn since it contains the remains of the owner of the house’s first child, who died almost ten years ago.”
If anyone has any information concerning the thieves’ identities, they should contact law police. According to the Daily Mail, an investigation is ongoing.
