Shocked 92-year-old Connie Milmore has been left marooned in her tiny Oxford flat after cruel thieves stole her wheelchair.

The raiders nabbed the chair from outside her front door. She kept it there because there was not enough room inside.

Now she faces a three-month wait for an NHS replacement. She told the Oxford Mail: "I am a bit wobbly on my legs. I can just crawl and shuffle around the flat. Without my wheelchair I cannot go out. It was a shock."

The thieves stole the chair after sneaking into Connie's block of flats in Cowley Road.

But the widow only realised it was gone when her daughter, Connie Drummond, stopped by to see how she was.

Mrs Drummond fears her mother could spend her remaining days languishing in her flat.

She said: "The wheelchair is loaned to her by the NHS. I take her out a couple of times a week, which she thoroughly enjoys doing. It will be three months before she gets another one and at 92 years old, while I hope that she lives for a long time, there is always a chance she will not."

Connie never goes out on her own and is nervous of youths in the streets. Mrs Drummond added: "She is quite deaf and fairly bad in her sight. She is disabled through old age."

She said the theft emphasised how priceless NHS wheelchairs were.

"It is pretty sad people are waiting for one and when one person pinches one it makes it more difficult for the people waiting.

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