Wrong-car disaster in home move

Faye Pounder, 25, was moving house when her flatmate Paul Robbins offered to carry her bags downstairs and load them into her white Citroen Xsara Picasso.

But he mistakenly opened the boot of a silver-coloured Xsara Picasso, which was parked outside their flat in Bristol, and left unlocked by its owner.

He loaded all of her belongings into the car – more than 3,000 worth of clothes, shoes, documents, camera equipment and personal possessions.

When Miss Pounder emerged from the rented property she was shocked to find her car – borrowed from a relative – was sitting empty, while the silver Citroen had disappeared.

The pub chef is now appealing to the owner of the other car to come forward and reunite her with her possessions.

Miss Pounder said the car owner may not have realised he or she have all her belongings.

"That's what I'm thinking, I bet they don't even know that it's in there yet," she said.

"I've spoken to the police on several occasions and no one has handed anything back in."

Miss Pounder was packing up and leaving the Bristol flat in order to move to Cornwall with her fiance to be closer to her family.