Late singer Amy Winehouse's dresses, including her wedding dress, have been stolen from the home she was found dead before they could be auctioned for the Amy Winehouse Foundation latter this year.
The wedding dress she wore while tying the knot with Blake Fielder-Civil in 2006 and a cocktail frock, which she wore on a television music show, were stolen from the home in Camden, which was turned into a shrine by her fans.
The dresses worth £130,000 were due for auctioning in New York later this year to raise fund for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which helps young people fight drug addiction and other related problems. The foundation managed to raise over £1million in 2011.
"It's a blow," Amy Winehouse's dad Mitch (60) told The Sun. "It's sickening that someone would steal something in the knowledge of its sentimental value."
The home in Camden, North London, where the "Rehab" singer died in 2011 at the age of 27, houses many belongings of the late singer, including expensive designer cloths but the thieves took away only the wedding dress and the cocktail frock which has baffled people close to the singer.
"The house in Camden is being sold so all of her possessions have been tagged, numbered and logged in preparation of storage. There was a window of about two days while that process was underway when the dresses could have been taken. A few people were involved and there was some coming and going," Mitch told The Sun.
"We're going through everything else to see what else, if anything, has been lifted. We are all baffled as to why some of her designer dresses didn't go too. There were a couple from Dolce & Gabbana worth a fortune. Her wedding dress was only a little cotton thing, a hundred quid at best in the shops. Whoever nicked it realised its significance and knew it had an extra value," he added.
Amy Winehouse, who shot to fame in 2006 through her album "Back to Black" that won her five Grammy awards, died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011. "Back to Black" also became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century posthumously.