A pensioner has been left bereft after her pet tortoise, which she has had for 50 years, "vanished" from her back garden. Marion Lewis, 84, has been "knocked for six" by the sudden disappearance of the 80-year-old tortoise, called 'Tortie', last Thursday, April 28.
The disappearance of the beloved pet has sparked a town-wide tortoise-hunt, with the "whole Llantrisant community" searching the area for Tortie. But after seven days there is still "no sign" of it anywhere, and the family are mystified as to its whereabouts.
Marion's daughter Cerys Llewellyn, 54, said the tortoise first came into their lives when her aunt found it after it "just appeared" in her back garden in Pontypridd. When no-one had claimed it after a few weeks, the animal was adopted by Cerys' family. You can read all our Llantrisant stories here.
