Woman caught on camera stealing flowers from grave

A woman in London, Ontario, is left heartbroken and searching for answers after personal items from her mother’s grave have been repeatedly stolen.

Marg Allerston-Medeiros lost her 86-year-old mother, Alma Allerston, this past April and buried her at the St. Peter’s Cemetery.

Since then, someone has been stealing the family’s mementos and ripping flowers from beneath the grave stone. At times, they were later found in a nearby garbage bin, AM980 reports.

“Its hell, I have to tell you, going to the cemetery and seeing the empty holes when you’re expecting to water flowers,” Medeiros told The London Free Press.

So Medeiros set up a camera across from her mother’s grave, hidden in a tree, hoping to catch the thief.

After almost three months, the hidden camera caught the suspect.

In the video posted on Facebook, a woman with blond hair is seen ripping several flowers from the ground with her hands, placing them in a box and then running away.

Unfortunately, the footage does not capture the female’s face and the London Police have not been unable to identify the suspect, according to AM980.

“Personally I have never seen anything like this,” Const. Alanna Hollywood with London police told Global News. “I’ve never seen a case where it’s actually been targeted like this.”

Mederios told AM980 that she has no idea why her mother or her family has been targeted.

“Everyone loved her, you know, she was the kind of lady that took you under her wing,” she told the news outlet. “Now, my husband, and I, and sister, we’re not in there (the grave plot) now, but we will be in that plot one day, so our names are there, so I don’t know if it’s a personal attack on one of us three.”

Medeiros and the police are asking the public for help in identifying the woman in the video. She has been described by police as white, in her 20s, approximately 5’ 5”, with a slim build and dyed blonde hair with dark roots.

“I just want it to stop,” Medeiros told CBC News. “If anyone knows anyone that has anything to do with this – stop. Enough. Let our family heal.”