He said: “I am a little distraught about it. It isn’t the value that distresses me it’s the fact that I’ve had them for years and I don’t know where they’ve gone.
“Believe it or not, I had my favourites and if I think of what they used to look like it is upsetting.”

Mr Hyman said since losing a few fish earlier in the year to a heron he had placed a net over the pond.