Crooks steal child's wheelchair (From Southend Standard)
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Crooks steal child's wheelchair
2:22pm Sunday 28th October 2012 in News
IGNORANT crooks stole a child's wheelchair from the luggage compartment of a coach.
The 11-year-old victim , who is from Cambridge, had been on a youth club trip to Southend with her friends when it was pinched.
It was taken from the coach in the overflow carpark for Garon Park, off Eastern Avenue, between 1.30pm and 5pm on Saturday October 27.
It is collapsible, coloured silver and has bright pink butterfly transfers on the wheels.
The chair belonged to a family from Cambridgeshire who were visiting Southend.
Anyone with information should contact police at Southend on 101.
