A FIFE woman has spoken of her devastation following the theft of a floral display from her mother’s graveside.
Dr Essie Tough, from Falkland, contacted The Courier after reading about the Anderson family from Angus, who were victims of a similar incident at a cemetery in Perth and Kinross.
Describing her own experience in a bid to highlight the issue of thefts from graves, Dr Tough (56) told how the display of roses was taken from the Halbeath Road cemetery in Dunfermline.
She said: “My mother, who lived in Milnathort, was buried on December 10. I found out the flowers had been stolen on Monday when I visited her grave.
“Needless to say I was devastated.”
The flowers had been displayed on top of Dr Tough’s mother’s coffin during her funeral.
Dr Tough said: “I was very emotional anyway, but I burst into tears at her graveside when I realised what had happened.
“Losing your mother is bad enough but having someone steal from her grave just adds to the grief.”
Woman devastated by theft from mother’s grave in Dunfermline
