GNOME-NAPPERS have pinched a family's prize possessions and left a six-month-old baby "devastated."

Thirty-three-year-old dad Lee Bandoni said he and his girlfriend bought the 3 ft tall, £25 gnomes,named Henry and Samuel, after daughter Mia spotted them in Asda and fell in love.

He said: "She adores them. She can't talk yet but she makes noises at them."

The family woke up yesterday to find the duo had disappeared from their doorstep in Cardonald and are now bracing themselves for a ransom demand.

Lee, a technology advisor, said: "It was quite windy overnight so we checked they hadn't blown into someone else's garden.

"We asked our neighbours if they had seen anything. One of them thought he had heard a noise in the night, like footsteps."

"We are going to give it 24 hours before we go to the police. It could be a bit of a prank."

CCTV cameras usually cover the house, in Barfillan Drive, but new lights are being fitted to the cameras and they have been switched off.

Lee described the gnomes as "respected members of the family.You can't put a price on what they meant to us," he said.

Lee and girlfriend Amanda Morris, 26, will "scour the nation" for replacement gnomes if Henry and Samuel don't turn up, he said.

"It's been very traumatic for us. We're devastated."

The gnomes are part of a new 'family' range by the supermarket chain, including father Gnorman, mother Gnorma, and children Gnoah and Gnora.