Reunited! Hunt for Perth owner of wedding ring is over
A Perth man has been reunited with his missing wedding ring thanks to an anonymous good Samaritan and a dedicated jeweller, after weeks of desperate searching.
Justin Howard went out for dinner and drinks with a mate before they ran through Hyde Park, when he realised his wedding ring had slipped off. It was May 30.
After four hours of searching, he went home empty handed, then returned and spent the next three days combing the area.
'I came back the next morning, still couldn't find it,' Mr Howard said.
'I came back again with my wife on the Sunday, still couldn't find it.'
Refusing to give up, he enlisted the help of a professional metal detectorist and ring finder, but the freshly mowed lawn disrupted the scanning process. Mr Howard's platinum wedding ring was found at Hyde Park and handed to Rohan Jewellers in Mt Lawley. Credit: Supplied
'The ring finding guy was like, 'Look, to be honest, the lawn has been mowed so there's heaps of junk in the grass'.
'He was picking up all kinds of things.
'He was like, 'You know mate, the chances are really, really low'.
'I thought, he's a professional so, God, if he can't find it then I'm screwed.
'I kind of took it on the chin and apologised profusely to the wife. It was shocking.'
That was all before Tuesday when jeweller Rohan Milne issued a public appeal looking for the owner of a men's wedding ring that had been kindly returned to his store.
'It's a platinum wedding band and it's one of ours, it's got our name and our ruby on the inside,' he said.
'If you're out there and you don't have your wedding band, we've got it. Come on in.'
Mr Milne spent the next day scouring the records of his three stores when he found what looked like a match in his system.
'I actually looked at the weights, because I had the ring here I could weigh it. It was the weight of it that gave it away,' he explained. Rohan Milne restored Mr Howard's wedding band and even tightened it up to prevent it slipping off again. Credit: Rohan Milne
On Wednesday night, Mr Howard received one of the best phone calls he could've hoped for.
'Before Rohan could even get further into the conversation, I just said, 'You've got my ring', and we both just cracked up,' Mr Howard said.
'I've honestly been riding the wave since I found out the other day. It was incredible.
'It turned into this absolute fairytale.'
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