Lisa Ellis's plea for return of phone containing last message of her dead brother Andrew Bohdan

Apr 10 2010 by Kevin Core, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A WOMAN is appealing for the return of a phone which contains the last voice message she received from her brother.

Andrew Bohdan, of Marsden, 43, died after his Citroen Saxo and a blue Lexus crashed on December 1 last year.

His sister, Lisa Ellis, 42, of Longwood, received a message from him the day before, organising to meet at teatime the following day.

She has kept the message on her Sony Ericsson but the phone slipped from her pocket on Thursday evening.

Despite calling her own number and organising to pick it up from the person who discovered it, the finder did not turn up.

Mrs Ellis, an advertising clerk, said: “I was walking the dog and I lost it on Sycamore Avenue in Golcar.

“When my husband rang the phone a lady said her son had found it, she wasn’t far away and she could meet us at a shop on Sycamore Avenue.

“We waited well over an hour and nobody turned up.

“We texted it and rang explaining that not only did it have my brother’s voice on it, but pictures of the flowers from his funeral.

“It also had a picture of my brother putting a wreath where Andrew died.