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.
