A Maple Ridge mother says she was robbed of more than personal belongings after a storage locker she was renting was broken into last Sunday.

She was robbed of her late daughter鈥檚 belongings, items she wasn鈥檛 ready to part with yet.

Julie Raymond鈥檚 daughter Shannon died in 2008, when the 16-year-old overdosed after taking an ecstasy pill on a party bus.

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Raymond had put everything belonging to Shannon into the locker 鈥� from baby items to a police evidence box with sealed plastic bags containing all of the items her daughter had on her the night she died.

鈥淲e had left those sealed as the police had given them to us. The thief ripped those open and took a lot of those things,鈥� said Raymond.

鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 ready to part with them and the thief took that away from me.鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 why they were there, because we weren鈥檛 ready to say goodbye to those things,鈥� she added.

The locker that Raymond was renting was on the inside of a Mayfair Self Storage building along Stewart Crescent, in an industrial area of Maple Ridge.

She was contacted by the owners of the storage facility on Wednesday and told her locker might have been compromised.

When Raymond went to the facility to have a look, she said the lock on the unit was not hers. She believes somebody with a code to the building had entered and cut off her lock, replacing it with their own, giving them time to go through the locker unnoticed.

Other lockers had been broken into as well, Raymond has been told.

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However, it was clear, that the items in her locker belonged to a deceased person.

鈥淭hey went through her funeral box,鈥� said Raymond.

The thief also took two guitars that belonged to her son-in-law, one, a 1960s Gibson鈥檚 Blue Ridge guitar, that was given to him by his brother.

The value of the contents stolen from the locker is more than $10,000.

But what Raymond wants back are the items that belonged to Shannon 鈥� including a designer wallet and her bag.

鈥淭hey have violated my daughter in the worst possible way they could have,鈥� said Raymond.

鈥淭hey robbed me of my right to part with her belongings. Have a heart and give them back.鈥�

cflanagan@mapleridgenews.com

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