Surveillance video captured the moment someone stole nine-year-old Aaliyah Faulknor’s bright pink wheelchair from the front porch of her family’s Old East Village home in London, Ont.
While police made an arrest and recovered the $10,000 custom chair, it’s been stripped of its parts and is unusable.
“You can see someone come onto our porch and take it and ride away with it on a bicycle,” said Aaliyah’s 21-year-old sister, Hayley Fair.
Fair said the suspect dragged the wheelchair behind his bike.
Aaliyah has cerebral palsy and can only walk about three metres at a time, said Fair.
After a 14-month waiting period, the family
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