THE owner of two tortoises stolen from her garden in Oakfield Park, Wellington, is desperate to get her pets back.

Denise Bath said the tor- toises – Oswald, four, and Kevin, five – were kept in a sunken area of her back gar- den and it would have been impossible for them to get out by themselves.

Denise said: “They were a 50th birthday present and I thought I would have them for life.”

She said the tortoises, which are not valuable, had been taken while she was on holiday between September 17-24.

She had been thinking about putting them in her greenhouse to hibernate for winter when she returned.

The tortoises are micro- chipped and traceable – any- one with information about their disappearance is asked to contact the police on 101 or online quoting crime ref- erence 5217218214.