The victim of a notorious spate of garden gnome thefts nearly 50 years ago has said the man who confessed to being the culprit should "stay in the shadows" and never reveal his full identity.

On his Radio 2 show last month, a listener phoned in to confess to being the Formby gnome thief of 1976/1977. The spate of crimes made national news in the late 1970s when police were puzzled ...

One sleepy Merseyside town was once rocked by a serial gnome thief who had families baffled for months on end. During the end of 1976 and the beginning of 1977, Formby was the subject of national ...