Scots widow of murdered Sri Lankan toyboy in bid to be reunited with treasured possessions

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A Scot who lost her life savings when her Sri Lankan toy boy husband was murdered has launched a desperate bid to be reunited with her treasured possessions.Pensioner Diane Peebles wed hotel worker Priyanjana De Zoysa, 26, after meeting him on holiday in 2011 and gave him £100k to build them a life there - but he was shot dead in 2017 after it emerged he had a second younger wife.The 65-year-old, from Edinburgh, managed to scrape together enough money to return to Scotland the following year but with the house she left behind in her dead husband’s name now occupied by her in-laws, she has lost all hope of clawing any of her savings back.Instead, she is desperately trying to fundraise enough cash to be reunited with her worldly possessions left behind in Sri Lanka before they’re lost forever - including priceless family pictures of her late parents.Diane said: “I have 20 boxes of belongings there.

I left everything I had.“My family photographs are stuck there. A lot have been destroyed because mice got into the box and chewed them.“There is a mahogany table my dad made me which is very sentimental to me.

It will be in a bit of a state now but if I can get it back to Scotland my brother can restore it.“I’ve got all my clothes, paperwork and personal items.“It could be as much as £5,000 but I’m living on Universal Credit and I’ve only got a small pension so can’t save a lot.“It will take years for me to save up to get the stuff back.”Diane sold her three-bed flat in Musselburgh, East Lothian, and took early retirement from her job as a customer service assistant with Edinburgh City Council to live permanently with her husband, who was 33 years her junior, in Colombo in 2015.She spent £60,000 to build a house for them in the