UK COMPUTER EQUIPMENT STOLEN Relief as stolen wedding snaps are returned - Larne Today

By Staff reporter

A LARNE family breathed a sigh of relief this week after a stolen memory card containing wedding photographs was returned.

The card was one of many items stolen from the home of Gerald Crymble, a photographer from Whitehead, the day after Larne couple Catherine Blair and Stewart Boyd tied the knot.

Mother-of-the-bride Rachel Blair made an appeal in the Larne Times last week for the safe return of the irreplaceable photographs. Mr Crymble had stored pictures of the wedding in Magheramorne and a reception in the Ross Park Hotel on his laptopcomputer and memory cards. The day after the wedding thieves made off with Canon cameras, lenses, flashguns, accessories, computer equipment and cash. The haul was worth tens of thousands of pounds.

The vast majority of the equipment was returned to Mr Crymble at the end of last week. Catherine and her new husband are still on honeymoon unaware of the drama.

Ronnie Blair, the father-of-the-bride, said that he believed all of his daughter’s wedding pictures have been returned. Catherine and her new husband are back from honeymoon next week. “We have seen a few pictures that were taken of family and friends but we have not as yet seen the official bride and groom pictures,” he said.

Mr Blair suggested that the equipment may have been returned because high-end photographic equipment is a specialist field and “it’s not everybody who would want that. The memory sticks are of very little value - it’s what they contain.”

There was widespread media coverage of the theft and the Blair family’s predicament last week. Following the equipment’s return Mr Crymble told a newspaper that the development was “incredible.”

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Last Updated: 27 February 2008 10:31 AM