Long-suffering widow wants burglars to return wedding rings

Ms Todd wants the burglars to pop the rings into the mailbox. Photo / Thinkstock

A widow has made an emotional plea to burglars to return her wedding rings, stolen from her Wellington home on Friday, because they were her last link to her dead husband.

"Please dig deep into your hearts and see if you can get these back to me, they don't mean anything to you but they mean the world to me," Rebecca Todd said.

Ms Todd's 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter arrived home from school to find their front door ajar, the place turned upside down and precious momentos gone.

"They took my engagement ring, which was my mother's, my wedding band, my eternity ring that my husband gave me six months before he died ... and his wedding band," she said.

The rings were one day going to be passed to her children, Ms Todd said.

"Honestly, they could've taken everything else out of the house and I wouldn't care, but they took the things that I cannot replace that have so much sentimental value."

She pleaded with the burglars to return the rings - "just put them in the letterbox".

As well as the jewellery, the thieves stole a camera holding family photos and a set of headphones her son Liam loved.

Ms Todd has had her share of heartbreak.

In 2006 her 34-year-old husband Matt died from a brain tumour and two years later, Liam was diagnosed with a tumour that grew underneath his left eye.

He underwent surgery to remove it and his face had to be reconstructed with bone from his leg.

"I just want a nice quiet life and I never seem to get it," Ms Todd said.