Stolen bike has link to teenage owner's late father

11:40am Monday 22nd October 2012 in News

Charlie Sweetman on the bike which was stolen. Charlie Sweetman on the bike which was stolen.

A TEENAGER is appealing for the return of a bicycle which provides a link to his late father.

Charlie Sweetman, 16, pictured above on the bike, had left his prized possession, one of the last things he and father Carl bought together before his death, in a friend’s garden.

But he returned to find it had been stolen.

His father Carl, a professional tree surgeon, died aged 42 after an oak he was felling collapsed on top of him at Bracken Farm, in Plaitford, in February last year.

The bike, a white and black Trek 3 series, was stolen from a garden in Rownhams Road, North Baddesley, where Charlie had left it while he caught the bus to and from Sparsholt College.

It went missing sometime between 7.45am and 5.45pm, on Thursday last week.

Any witnesses or anyone with information should contact Romsey police on 101.

Comments(5)

OSPREYSAINT says...
12:53pm Mon 22 Oct 12

You have no chance these thieving scrotes have no conscience.

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ToastyTea says...
1:11pm Mon 22 Oct 12

What a sad story, I hope he gets it back.

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baddsgirl says...
2:11pm Mon 22 Oct 12

so many bikes have got stolen in baddesley recently. it used to be a safe place where you could leave your bike outside the shop and just pop in and out and your bike still be there. whatever brazen little prats are doing this need to stop, go to school or get a job and buy your own bike. Hope this young lad gets his bike back a.s.a.p.

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Huffter says...
6:04pm Mon 22 Oct 12

Just shows the danger of leaving a prized possession unattended for 12 hours.

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Ginger_cyclist says...
9:50pm Mon 22 Oct 12

Huffter wrote:
Just shows the danger of leaving a prized possession unattended for 12 hours.
Worst thing about this is the fact he left it in a trusted friends garden and it still got stolen.

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