$55k bronze theft

Brazen art thieves donned high-vis vests and spent an hour removing a 2m tall bronze gnome from outside an Auckland art gallery. The sculpture, named Thinker, by renowned artist Gregor Kregar, retails for $55,000 and was barely outside Gow Langsford Gallery for a week before it was nicked.gallery director John Gow said the gnome was installed the week before Christmas and was deemed “very festive”. CCTV footage shows three men unbolting the 80-100kg statue from its concrete plinth, overnight on Christmas Eve.