True. By the way, thank you so much for your help. ThePlace.
The whole situation is extremely....upsetting.
According to the security department record, the almost empty purse was handed in at the same day it was being stolen. My student ID card was in it. All you need to do is to use the information of the student ID card to find my university email address to inform me. But the purse was sitting at the department for a whole week (It seemed that noone in the department knew about it at that time) until an university email with no name, job title and Heriot Watt icon was sent to my university email address (The webmaster thought that it was not from the university when he/she looked at that email and changed his/her mind later), the security department manager told me that that email was a draft being typed up by someone and was being sent by the system. When I confronted the security department manager why the purse was there the whole week and noone thought of informing me earlier, he became quite upset. I asked a number of security guards I know in that university, I was being told that this situation is very abnormal. The security guard that know about it normally would have informed me straight away.
Yeah, I would meet with the adviser on this Wednesday. Wish me luck. I have asked the student union to send someone to go with me to this meeting as an independent party because I want my rights to be protected. But the student union is not willing to do so.