HARD-HEARTED thieves stooped to new depths of shame -- by stealing a disabled Bolton six-year-old's WHEELCHAIR.

Haemophiliac Jordan Downs, of Deane, needs his "wheels" because he is so stricken by internal bleeding he is often too weak to walk.

But thieves snatched his lifeline when his mum Joanne left the chair outside a friend's front door for a matter of minutes.

Today she stormed: "I still can't believe what's happened. It's absolutely sick."

The theft took place on Sunday night as Joanne, 27, and Jordan, a Ladybridge Primary School pupil, visited a friend in Oriel Street, Deane.

The mum-of-two put Jordan's wheelchair outside the terraced house for 45 minutes while she chatted with her pal and Jordan played computer games.

But when she left to go home to nearby Briercliffe Road, the little lad's chair -- red-framed with black cushions -- had disappeared.

Now the mum-of-two faces a bill of hundreds of pounds to replace the hospital-supplied "wheels" and fix Jordan's broken spare chair.

She stormed: "What use can it be to anyone else?

"Whoever took the wheelchair is depriving my lad of his normal life."

Jordan, whose haemophilia means his body produces no clotting agents to prevent bleeding, is now house-bound when his condition leaves him too weak to walk.

Joanne added: "At the moment he is just about strong enough to get to school, but it he gets another bleed I don't know what we will do.

"I just hope whoever stole his wheelchair will feel bad enough to return it."

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