Jacqueline's opal and gold engagement ring. // Police have launched a theft investigation after a dementia patient's diamond and gold wedding rings were replaced with a plastic decoy. Jacqueline Stockbridge, 69, was taken to Holywell Park Care Home, in Sevenoaks, Kent, after she suffered a stroke last month. Living with dementia, Jacqueline has been in the care system for 15 years and has always worn her £7,500 opal and gold engagement ring, encrusted with 14 diamonds, and her £1,500 baguette wedding band with rectangular diamonds. So when her daughter Jocelyn, 37, came to visit her on September 21, she was shocked to see a plastic ring on her finger in place of the tailor-made jewellery.
This fake ring which was placed on Jacqueline's in place of her original diamond and gold wedding rings at Holywell Park Care Home in England. (Jocelyn Stockbridge via SWNS)
Jacqueline's opal and gold engagement ring. // Police have launched a theft investigation after a dementia patient's diamond and gold wedding rings were replaced with a plastic decoy. Jacqueline Stockbridge, 69, was taken to Holywell Park Care Home, in Sevenoaks, Kent, after she suffered a stroke last month. Living with dementia, Jacqueline has been in the care system for 15 years and has always worn her £7,500 opal and gold engagement ring, encrusted with 14 diamonds, and her £1,500 baguette wedding band with rectangular diamonds. So when her daughter Jocelyn, 37, came to visit her on September 21, she was shocked to see a plastic ring on her finger in place of the tailor-made jewellery.
This fake ring which was placed on Jacqueline's in place of her original diamond and gold wedding rings at Holywell Park Care Home in England. (Jocelyn Stockbridge via SWNS)
Jocelyn Stockbridge,SWNS
By Jack Fifield
Police have launched an investigation after a dementia patient’s diamond and gold wedding rings worth £9,000 ($12,000) went missing — and were replaced with plastic copies.
