Found! Police return Gofriller violin that was stolen on Gatwick Express

Found! Police return Gofriller violin that was stolen on Gatwick Express

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norman lebrecht

May 11, 2017

At the end of March, Carol Slater had her 1700 Gofriller stolen from the luggage rack of a Gatwick Express train.

 

British Transport Police, using CCTV camera footage, issued a picture of a woman they wanted to interview.

They recovered the violin from a house in Northwest London and today returned it, slightly damaged, to Carol.

She hopes to play it in a concert with her husband, violist Ian Jewel, at the Belsize Music Festival later this month.

Comments

  • V.Lind says:

    Was this one of the forgotten/left behind ones? I assume it was not snatched at knifepoint.

    She was very, very lucky and the police are to be congratulated.

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