Baby shower presents returned after Thorpe St Andrew mix up

Jo Cartledge-Lawn had her close friends and family turn up to throw her a baby shower on Sunday (August 20), at Sir George Morse Park, in Thorpe St Andrew.

But after asking her friends to put the presents in her silver Hyundai at the end of the day, she soon found out they were unknowingly left in someone else’s car instead.

The baby shower presents were returned to The Little Park Café in Thorpe after the owner of the other car discovered them in the boot (Image: Sonya Duncan, Newsquest)

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Sarah Spooner, Jo’s best friend, attended the shower and said: “We had a nice time.

“Everyone arrived, we put the presents on the table and Jo’s mum and auntie even wrote a nice song for her.

Jo first realised the presents were missing was when she went to get them out of her car boot when she returned to her parent’s house (Image: Sonya Duncan, Newsquest)

“At the end of the shower however Jo gave her car keys to a friend of hers and asked for the presents – about 15 in total – to be put into the back of her car.

“However Jo said when she got back to her parents’ house for a cup of tea, she went to get the presents out so she could open them, and they weren’t there.

“Turns out they’d be put into the wrong silver Hyundai and someone had unwillingly driven off with the gifts!”

The baby shower was held in Sir George Morse Park in Thorpe St Andrew (Image: Sonya Duncan, Newsquest)

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After the group posted on social media hoping the owner of the other car saw the mistake, the presents were returned to The Little Park Cafe located inside the grounds of the Laundry Lane park, the next day.

Sarah added: “Thankfully someone returned the presents quickly.

“Jo’s friend, who put the presents in the wrong car originally, felt terrible so it’s nice that the person has been kind enough to bring them back.”

The presents which were inadvertently put in the wrong car boot on Sunday (August 20) (Image: Sarah-Jane Spooner)

Jo asked her friend to put the presents into her silver Hyundai, but they instead put them into a different silver Hyundai (Image: Sonya Duncan, Newsquest)