Scots Alzheimer's patient's wedding rings 'stolen' from hospital ward leaving family heartbroken

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Crosshouse Hospital following a fall on August 4. Days into her hospital stay, daughter Elaine noticed the two diamond rings were missing from her mum's hand.Alzheimer's patient Helen was given the rings by her late husband Alexander Lawrie in the 1970s and she has never taken them off in 42 years.

Elaine, 56, now fears someone at the hospital has stolen her vulnerable mother's jewellery.She claims when she asked nursing staff about the missing rings, she was assured they would have been locked in a safe.Elaine said: "I was told by one nurse that she held my mother's hand and saw the rings, which she described in perfect detail to me.