A distressed owner has been reunited with the Sex and The City-style dress she lost on a train in May.

It comes hours after police released CCTV images of a man and a woman they wanted to speak to after a dress identical to one worn in the Sex and the City 2 film was stolen months ago.

Now a woman has come forward, claiming she found the dress and unsuccessfully tried to contact the owner, who left it on a train between Bromley South and West Malling.

British Transport Police officers had been investigating the theft of the designer dress – identical to one worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening scene of Sex and the City 2: The movie, released in 2010.

A 40-year-old woman from Gillingham had bought the garment, worth more than £500, and boarded the Ashford-bound train, getting off at West Malling station, on Sunday, May 4.

DS Leigh Marshall said: “The woman experienced a panic attack while on the train and had to get off at West Malling – leaving the shopping bag behind.”

The dress has not been handed in at any lost property offices along the Kent route.

The train involved was the 3.02pm London Victoria to Ashford service.

Detective Sergeant Leigh Marshall said after the dress was returned: “We are committed to reducing the theft of personal property on the rail network and will always fully investigate all reports we receive.

“Thankfully this case has a happy ending, and the dress will be returned to the victim, for which it holds great sentimental value.”

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