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Symbolic crystal stolen from St Giles grave
A widow has been left distraught after a crystal she left on her husband's grave in Chalfont St Giles was stolen.
Daryl Hughes, who died of cancer two years ago at the age of 42, has a headstone at the cemetery in Bowstridge Lane, Chalfont St Giles.
His wife Kim and their two sons regularly visit the grave to leave things there but were horrified to learn that a crystal that they had left hanging on a cross at the grave had been taken.
Mrs Hughes said: "I had hung the crystal there a year and a half ago on one of my visits there with the boys. It could not have been taken by the wind because it has been there for so long, so somebody must have taken it.
"People are always going along there to leave flowers and things like that so you do not expect things to be taken. Daryl's mother found that it was missing and it really upset her at the time."
Mrs Hughes was pregnant when her husband died and has been taking their two sons to the grave regularly since the death.
She added: "I put the crystal there because it symbolises spirits being released and I thought that it would be a nice things to put on the grave. I could get another one if I wanted to, but it is not that which has upset me, it is the fact that that particular one has gone after being there all that time. I can't understand why someone would take it.
"I hope that if the person who has taken it reads this then they will think again and return the crystal to the grave. It would really mean a lot to us all if they were to do that."
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