Third tiny grave is target for thieves

Yesterday the Argus told how Mark and Dawn Adams visited their son and daughter's graves in Cwmbran cemetery on Llantarnam Road on Saturday - to find teddy bears they had lovingly placed there were missing.

Joshua died last April, aged six months, and Zoe, in March 2000, aged five months, both from pulmonary hypertension.

Now it has emerged thieves also took mementoes from the grave of another child, aged just six weeks when he died.

Mother of two Teresa Lewis is still grieving for her third son, Kyron, who died on October 3 last year.

She discovered the theft from her son's grave after a friend took her there on Monday night.

A tearful Miss Lewis said: "Whoever did this picked what they wanted." Miss Lewis, of Waun Road, said Kyron, who was born on August 20, died from pulmonary venus stenosis, a condition that meant he had no arteries to his heart.

She added the recent theft is the third time Kyron's grave had been targeted. She said: "The first time it happened it was six weeks after he was buried. Only a few things were taken then. In December it happened again."

Miss Lewis, 27, said: "The possessions mean a lot to people with relatives and babies buried in the cemetery. It's hard enough to come to terms with the death of a child, and to have this happen is just too much.

"I feel it more because Kyron's birthday is coming up. "I am appealing to everybody to be vigilant and to report any suspicious people or thefts to the police."

A spokesman for Cwmbran police said the items taken from Kyron's grave were distinctive - china mementoes depicting sportsmen, or policemen, rowers and pirates. He said: "We are treating this matter seriously. The monetary value is not important. It's more about sentimental value."

Anyone with information about the thefts from Kyron's grave or the nearby graves of Joshua and Zoe Adams should contract Cwmbran police on 01633 838999.

PICTURED: Teresa Lewis, left, with her mother Christine Cook.