Lost my ring, handed in, pub denying so.

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So, 3 weeks ago on a rare night out I lost a ring (was just a tad tispy!). I phoned the pub, taxi etc the next morning but no joy.
Put an insurance claim in which is currently being processed.
Last night my DD found a FB post with a photo of my ring and a caption saying it had been handed into the bar the following afternoon of my visit.
I phoned the bar, and the manager (he said he hadn't been there long) looked, spoke to staff who said they knew nothing about it but there was another manager he could message and he'd ask them to phone me back.
Since then I've received a reply from the lady who handed it in with a description of the staff member and possible name.
If it doesn't reappear do I have any recourse? I'm sure the police won't be interested.
The ring is worth about £1,000.
AIBU to think I'll get it back?

I hope you get it back OP, I genuinely don’t understand how some people can be so dishonest.

Hope you get it back. People are such low lives these days.

Something similar happened when my eight year old son left his games console in the door pocket of a hire car. When we realised it was missing, a few days after returning the car, I contacted the hire car company and they said they didn't have it in lost property. I asked if I could come and check the car. I was told the car was out on hire so I asked if I could check when it was returned. They then told me the car had been sold! I phoned back to ask for the car details as I was putting in a police report...30 minutes later the car hire company phoned back to say they had found my missing item. A bloke brought it round and just about threw it at me when I opened the door to him! Good luck with recovering your ring.

Well no change really. Spoke to the manager who says he's spoken to all the staff, even the one I described it was handed in to apparently.
All I could really say was that my insurers and police (101!) will be in touch as statements etc will need to be obtained as they've either lost it or its been stolen while in their possession.

Me neither. Jewellery usually has sentimental value as mine has.

Don't know, I'll find out more tomorrow I guess.

Thanks for the update, but how disappointing. I am still holding out hope that someone's conscience is pricked and you get it back.

I hope this happens for me!

If the ring was handed in and you feel that a staff member might have kept it. Then I am pretty sure it is a crime.
there is a crime of ‘theft by finding’.
so if the police take it seriously then someone could at least be held accountable

Rooting for you OP. I hope the lovely person who found it and handed it in will help with getting the Police to investigate.

Yes she has agreed to. Her husband and uncle were with her when she handed it in also.

Please please please keep us updated! I think of the police don’t help you put it all over local social media. I wouldn’t visit a pub if I knew the staff were so horrible.

Could you post on Facebook what's happened? The pub won't want the bad press

Bit like your post then?

phone the police. Report as a theft. Also I'd be outing the pub and it's dishonest, horrible staff all over social media. They have stollen your property

Report to police but suspect pub has given it to someone who claimed it on day 1.

Good luck OP, hope your ring is found and returned.

Nah a staff member has pocketed it.

I would plaster this all over local social media.

I hope you find that it miraculously turns up now you've been in and made it clear that you know it was handed in to person y and the police have been informed. I suspect the cf might suddenly remember where they put it...

I honestly think it might be sheer laziness rather than theft. Locating lost property in restaurants is just extra unpaid work and no staff feels responsible for it, especially if they're on different shifts. Some places automatically deny that anything has been handed in just so it absolves them of extra work. A ring is small so so it could easily slip to the back of a drawer and then nobody can find it and it's not their responsibility anymore.

DH is very scatterbrained and routinely forgets things in restaurants. We realised that phoning them up almost alway results in a denial that anything was handed in (even if they "pretend" to look for it while on the phone with you). However if I show up at the restaurant in person, 90% of the time, the missing item suddenly turns up again. However it sometimes requires asking several members of staff because the main attitude for lost items is that nobody wants to be responsible for them and it's easier to fob off the customer than to actually keep track of lost things.

Did you ring police to see if handed in? I once handed lost ring into a place and after no one claimed it over the weekend they took it to police. Although it was never claimed and some cheeky staff member later tried to claim it pretending to be me.

Yes I agree.. It's an expensive ring but it could just be sentimental and this lady has proved she handed it in.. pub responsible for the sorting out of this..

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What did they say about CCTV?