Mansfield mum desperate to reunite toddler with well-loved soft toy

Eleasha Dowhan went on a shopping trip with her one-year-old daughter Aubrey and parked at the Nottingham Road charity car park near to Water Meadows and visited high street stores Primark and Topshop inside the shopping centre.

When walking back to the car to travel home, Eleasha realised that the toy badger called Mr Lumpy had gone missing and after retracing their steps it was nowhere to be found.

Eleasha said: “I was absolutely devastated when I realised he had gone.”

The plush toy badger Mr Lumpy was purchased as a Christmas present for Aubrey and is named after an Instagram account based on wildlife including badger sets, foxes and squirrels.

Eleasha said: “Aubrey has lots of soft toys but for some reason took to this badger straight away.

“We noticed that she understood what we were saying as we would ask her where Mr Lumpy was and she would look for him, point or fetch him so it has real sentimental value for us.”

She added: “It has probably upset me more than it has Aubrey, people have said just buy another, and I obviously will but it’s just not the same.

"We want the original Mr Lumpy.”

It's not black and white what happened to this toy badger but if you find him please contact us at [email protected].