Beloved by residents of the Leith Park retirement village, the statue is set to be returned a month after being taken
A month after it was allegedly stolen, Victoria police will return a beloved gorilla statue to its rightful home at aGarry, a 1.5-metre statue, was reported stolen from the Leith Park retirement village – north-east of the Melbourne CBD – on 6 June.
The force’s air wing was called in for the task, and helicopter pilots spotted the statue in a back yard. Nelson said it was a resident who first noticed Garry was missing last month. They said “G’day” to him in the morning, but when they returned in the afternoon, Garry was not there. This is not the first time a beloved gorilla statue with such a nickname has gone missing. In Scotland, a giant 2.4-metre gorilla statue was allegedly stolen from a Scottish garden centre more than a year ago and reunited with its owner in March.
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