Lisa YoungBBC News, Cornwall, Ellet
A two -month -old Shetland Pony Fall that was stolen from his mother, five weeks later, has been found to be more than 300 miles (483 km).
Was lucy Taking from the farm near Allet Between 11 and 12 July, the owner Jean Dahi was very concerned about the health of the falls, as she depended on her mother’s milk. He said that Lucy’s mother Nancy was “really distraught”.
The Devon and the Cornwall police confirmed that on August 21, Lucy was found after receiving information from a member of the public at a caravan park in Hertfordshire.
The force said that the chestnut scavbled fall was again associated with his mother on the same day and the theft was still going on.
The SGT Alex Winner of the Hurtfordshire Police’s Rural Operating Assistance Team was among the officers who found Lucy.
He said: “We were lucky that a piece of anonymous intelligence came to us through Dewon and Cornwal Police.
“We immediately worked on it, some officials and ourselves out of the site that was identified and a drone over it to see if we could find Lucy.
“We found it very quickly and identified it with his mark and shape.
“She was in a fine position, sometimes there was such a little thin and a little cough, but I was pleasantly surprised that she was away from her mother for a month and did not have milk and those nutrients.”
He said that the police thought he was taken to Hurtfordshire in a van, which would have been “very painful” for the young follow.
‘I can’t believe it’
Ms. Dahi said: “It shakes you in the core … I don’t know why someone would have taken her.
“I was worried about Lucy because she was very young – I never thought she was going to live.
“She was very young, obviously young, [there was] A strong chance that she was not going to live. ,
When he was found, Ms. Dahi said: “I could not believe it – even then it was a feeling that when I saw the pictures it could not really be her, but it was.
“She came in, started feeding and I felt that ‘she is going to do so, she will be fine.”