A devastated woman has launched a desperate appeal to find the emerald engagement ring given to her by her late husband a week before he passed away.
Thieves broke into Susan Morgan's home in Rusholme on October 22 and stole several pieces of valuable jewellery.
They ransacked her drawers and took the uncut emerald ring her husband have her to as a 'late' engagement ring six-years-ago.
He gave it to her a week before he died after suffering from a brain tumour.
The 76-year-old says the piece of jewellery has huge sentimental value as her husband had promised her one like that since their engagement in 1972.
She told the Manchester Evening News: "It just makes you so angry that they do this.
"There's a lot of sentiment attached to the ring.
"Go back 50 years in time and my husband was a student and I was a first-year teacher.
"It was just a joke at the time that I wanted an emerald engagement ring.
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"Fast forward a few years and my husband got a brain tumour.
"With the help of a friend, he managed to source a ring with uncut emerald, which he presented to me a week or so before he died."
Susan returned to her home - which she shares with a friend - last Tuesday evening to find her house had been broken into.
Thieves had ransacked both bedrooms.
No arrests have been made.
A GMP spokesperson said: "Police were called to the house at around 12:10pm on 22 October 2019 to reports of a burglary.
"It is believed that the offender forced their way into the property before carrying out a search of the address.
"No arrests have been made."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101. Reports can also be made via Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 11.
