Missing heirloom

Apr 16 2008

A man who left a £180,000 17th-century family heirloom violin on a train is offering £10,000 for its safe return.

Rob Napier was bringing the antique instrument, which was passed to him and his four siblings when his mother died in 2006, home from London.

Getting off the train at his home station of Bedwyn, Wiltshire, he forgot to collect the violin from the luggage rack. He alerted Transport Police but when the train was checked at Taunton the violin was nowhere to be found.