Woman Finds Diamond Ring After 20 Years

Published on 10/03/09

A woman has been reunited with a jewel-encrusted ring after nearly 20 years, according to a source.

Janice Amos lost the pre-engagement band on Christmas Day 1989, reports the Times Daily.

Ms Amos searched high and low for the item, but presumed it had been lost when her mother-in-law took a box of festival wrapping paper outside to be burnt, lovers of gold diamond rings may be interested to hear.

However, nearly 20 years later the band, which was given to Ms Amos by her husband two years before their marriage, was discovered by builders who were carrying out work on the couple's home, the source adds.

Ms Amos told the newspaper: "I couldn't believe it. I couldn't wait to see it."

In related news regarding missing gold diamond rings, police in Orlando are searching for a man who stole a jewel-encrusted band from the hand of a 92-year-old woman in a church car park.