An aspiring musician has told of the “horrible” moment he realised the saxophone his late grandfather gave him had been stolen in a robbery.
Conor Parker-Delves spent his last night at his university house in Longsight, Manchester, on 29 June, after studying saxophone performance at Royal Northern College of Music for four years.
But when he stepped outside the following morning, the car packed with his possessions had been opened, and two saxophones worth a total of £12,000 had been taken.
Parker-Delves said one of the items stolen was key to his family’s memory of his granddad, and that raising the money to replace the instruments was “nearly impossible”.
The gold tenor Selma Mark VI first belonged to Parker-Delves’ grandfather, Frank Parker, who was “massively obsessed with saxophone and jazz music”.
“He passed away when I was very young and so I’ve been incredibly lucky to play on it,” Parker-Delves told Radio Manchester.