The children were very happy to hear their journals had been recovered. Photo / Instagram/Ria Leighton
A family of British and Irish Lions supporters will be reunited with backpacks stolen from them from a car park in Auckland during their New Zealand trip.
The Leighton family is on a six-month round the world trip and the children had been writing a journal and collating a scrapbook
of their travels. The precious items were stolen when their backpacks were taken from their car in Auckland earlier this month.
Now in the US, the family has been contacted by Auckland police to inform them that the backpacks had been returned this week.
A few items, including father Max Leighton's camera, have not been found, but the family is happy to have their children's precious memories back.
Max and Maria Leighton travelled to New Zealand with their children Xander, 10, and Scarlett, 8, to follow the Lions.
