The Daily Telegraph solved the mystery by discovering the identity of the man who decided to make the gnome his traveling companion, and took him to meet the owners.
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| Simon Randles who 'borrowed' a gnome from a Gloucester garden and took it on his round the world travels. Pictured returning it to its owners Eve and Derrick Stuart-Kelso
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Simon Randles, 22, a law graduate from Reading University, who is taking a year out before joining the Royal Marines in February, shook hands and spoke at length with Derrick Stuart-Kelso and his wife, Eve, who were intrigued by his story.
"Thanks for coming round," Mrs Stuart-Kelso told him. "It is a lovely story and you have cheered me up on a miserable day."
Mr Randles, who lives in Gloucester, and traveled alone with the gnome, said the idea of taking a gnome had come up in discussion with friends at university. "It is incredibly hard to find a gnome," he said. "I was on a bus and saw this gnome in the garden. I think it was fate. I mentally tagged it and went back the night before I left and liberated it sometime before midnight.
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