Ms Lotti’s Christmas tree was ready for another year of decorations

By AMY REID

THE whereabouts of a real Christmas tree that was stolen from a Finsbury Park front garden remained a mystery this week.

Shannon Lotti, 25, arrived home from a walk with a neighbour on Saturday evening to find her live 5-foot-tall Christmas tree vanished from her front garden on Thorpedale Road.

She said: “I was standing in front of the front gate. I turned around and I thought, ‘something’s missing – Oh my god, my tree’s gone, someone’s taken my tree’.”

The thief stole the evergreen, pot and all, from the property out of view of her downstairs neighbour’s Ring camera.

Appeals for information from other neighbours and the Islington Community Group on Facebook have turned up no leads.

Shannon Lotti

Ms Lotti, who had repotted and kept the tree alive since last Christmas, was looking forward to decorating it for a second year.

“I’d literally been talking to my mum that day, I was like, I can’t wait to bring it inside, it’s going to be my second year with this tree. I was thinking about where I was going to put it.”

She wondered whether someone may have mistaken it for rubbish as building works are ongoing at the property, but she thinks the tree must have been pulled over the front garden wall in the security camera’s blind spot.

“It had been sat there since I moved in for six months, and nothing,” said Ms Lotti.

“No one had even moved it. Now that it’s leading up to Christmas, it’s been taken.”

The spot where the tree vanished from

On searching for a replacement, Ms Lotti said: “I’ll have to chain one to the fence. People on Facebook said to put an Airtag inside the pot, but I feel like that just defeats the purpose.

“Obviously I’m sad that this is what’s happened to it, but it wasn’t the best looking Christmas tree.”