A tortoise has been reunited with his sister two weeks after he went missing.

 

Two-year-old Pop escaped from his owner's garden through a gap in the gate but he's now back where he belongs - with his sister Fizzy.

 

Owen Kevin Gray, 49, said Pop went missing after he let the pair out in an enclosed section on the patio, but said he thought the tortoise was still in the garden.

 

In fact, Pop had been spotted 'legging it' down Cross Lane at speed and was taken in by a neighbour who nicknamed him Little Mo after Mo Farah.

 

Kevin, of Cross Lane, Royston, said: "We let them out in the garden on the patio when the weather is warm and I noticed he was gone but I was convinced he was still in the garden and had been looking for him every morning.

 

"We've got quite a big garden and let them out when it's warm but they've only ever gone missing in the garden before in bushes but never for long."

 

Kevin used to keep reptiles including pythons and chameleons but kept the tortoises for his daughter Bethany, 14.

 

He added: "She's glad they're back and I think Fizzy is glad. They seem to hang out together but he follows her around more than she follows her around."

 

Kevin said he could see straight away that it was missing Pop who appeared in last week's Chronicle.

 

He said the size, markings on the shell were exactly the same as Fizzy's and that he had a proof of purchase.

 

He has now had a secure closure to make sure neither escapes again.