Richmond pleasure machine Shai Bolton has made a public plea for the return of his AFL premiership medals after they had been stolen final 12 months.
The shattered Bolton’s Malvern house was damaged into on December 18 final 12 months and the burglars left along with his 2019 and 2020 premiership medals.
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The 24-year-old was again house in Perth on the time, simply over every week after his birthday, and a police housebreaking report was made.
However with no progress within the search since then, Bolton is now interesting for help from anybody with any information of the incident.
“It is vitally saddening to have objects as cherished as my premiership medals taken this manner,” he added.
“If anybody has any details about the place they may very well be or that might assist in the direction of them being returned, it could imply quite a bit to me and my household.”
Investigations are ongoing, however Richmond and Bolton have now made the search very public.
The AFL may need a contingency plan to assist Bolton if the medals cannot be discovered, because it did for former Western Bulldogs skipper, Easton Wooden.
Similar to Bolton, Wooden’s 2016 premiership medal was stolen when thieves broke into his house in April, 2020.
The medal was amongst a bunch of priceless objects the burglars left with, together with a premiership watch.
Wooden stated on the time that it had been his intention to reward the medal to his younger daughter, Matilda, when she grew older.
With that not doable, the AFL stepped in and had an an identical duplicate made particularly for Wooden.
If Bolton’s can’t be discovered, the league is prone to have one other pair of replicas struck to interchange them.
