HAVING a mobile phone stolen is frustrating for most people, but for one woman it has meant losing the final link with her dead son.

Anne Jones’s son Jim died from cancer last October, aged just 34.

For Ms Jones, a children’s counsellor from Brockley Road, Brockley, some of the last reminders she had of him were the many text messages he had sent her over the years.

But on September 25, some time between 3pm and 5pm in the Crofton Park area, her phone was taken, possibly when she was at the Co-op store in Brockley Road.

It had contained almost a full inbox full of messages from her son including ones sent from his many travels along with jokes and advice.

The 68-year-old, who has two other children, said: “I was just absolutely stunned.

“I kept those text messages because down the years I’d had some extraordinary messages from him.

“They were silly little things that would mean nothing to anybody else but they were my last link with him.

“It was nice looking through them sometimes if I was waiting for an appointment for a train.

“There were years of history there.”

Her son Jim Marcovitch played accordion in a folk band and was a regular on the south London music scene as well as playing at prisons and hospitals.

Ms Jones said: “He was a quite remarkable person.

“He was really very special and he inspired a lot of people.”

Ms Jones has been told by her network that the phone has been used several times since its disappearance.

She has a put a notice up at the shop and is asking people to return the phone, which she describes as an eight-year-old “grubby blue Nokia”, to the Co-op with no questions asked.

She said: “The phone has no real value but it’s the texts that are so special.”