“I opened my blinds as normal and could see lots of sand at the bottom of the lawn and I wondered what it was," said Mair.
“At first I just thought that someone had dumped loads of sand, because you don’t think anyone would take your lawn.
“But then I realised they had stolen it.”
Ms Ingman says she was given the lawn as a gift from a friend last November and was “upset” to discover it had been pinched.
She added: “I was very proud of my lawn so was upset it was gone, but more than anything shocked.
“I’ve never heard of anyone stealing someone’s lawn before.
“It does make me scared that they might come back.”
After discovering the theft, she called police who sent round officers who took measurements and photographs of footprints in the sand.
But it was not the first time she has been targeted by thieves.
A few years ago, she had £100 stolen from her house during a break-in.
Mrs Ingman said she had put the money aside to buy Christmas presents for her four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Thieves got into her house by putting their hand through a cat-flap and reaching for a set of keys.
She is now urging people not to leave their keys near their doors or windows.
However, she refuses to let the latest theft to dampen her spirits.
She said: “I won’t fret, what’s done is done. It’s no good getting upset and compared to all the other bad things going on in the world, this is just a drop in the ocean.”
Police are appealing for information regarding the missing lawn.
A North Wales Police spokesman said: “Police are appealing for information after an artificial lawn was stolen from the front garden of a property in Wrexham.
“It is believed the 90sq metre lawn was rolled up and taken sometime between 11pm on August 18 and 10.30am on August 19, from the garden on ersham Road in Wrexham.
(Daily Mirror)
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