Couple heartbroken after wedding rings stolen in terrifying home burglary

03.11.2022 - 14:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A couple have been left devastated after thieves broke into their house and stole their wedding rings. Nissan Da Cunha, 41, was asleep when the culprits entered her home in Wales at around 1am on October 24.

The stay-at-home mum says she first thought the noise was her husband, Jose, returning home from work when she heard the sound of a baby-gate being closed. Nissan then got up to use the bathroom and whilst inside says she heard voices in her back-garden.

The 41-year-old then realised the earlier noise meant that strangers had been inside her home and began screaming, reports Wales Online. Whilst still terrified from the situation, she then desperately tried to phone her husband and neighbours to alert them but no-one answered.

Nissan believes the perpetrators managed to fit through a small-window next to the kitchen, in their washing room, after she discovered it open. After repeated calls she managed to get through on the phone to one of her neighbours who told her to call the police.

Nissan said: "I started panicking, because I didn't know what to do. Calling the police didn't even cross my mind at that moment in time...I was literally shaking"

She then made the startling discovery that her and her husbands beloved wedding rings were missing. The 41-year-old explained that she and her partner would take their rings off whilst doing the dishes and her husband didn't wear it to his job due to the nature of work undertaken.

Nissan said: "It was when I opened the fridge to get something to drink that I noticed they had taken out wedding rings that were on top of the fridge."

She then also discovered that the thieves had also been rummaging around her handbag. The perpetrators stole her bank card from the bag and the