A DISABLED woman has been left stranded in her Bromley bungalow after thieves stole her motorised wheelchair.

Elizabeth Elliott, 46, was out enjoying a night playing bridge with her friends when burglars broke into her garage and stole the wheelchair, battery charger and a pair of crutches.

Mrs Elliott is receiving treatment for a leg condition which means she cannot walk anywhere.

And without the £2,000 electric wheelchair she cannot leave her house because she cannot get up her drive in her manual wheelchair.

She said: “Outside I drive around in an electric buggy which I keep in the garage. But to get from my house to the garage I use my wheelchair. Now that is gone I can't get out. I have another wheelchair but it is not electric and I can't get up the drive in it.”

She says that along with the wheelchair, crutches and battery charger, the burglars have stolen her independence.

She said: “I live a very active life and can always call on friends but I feel my independence has gone.

“When I came back and found it missing I had to drag myself along the floor to get back indoors. I was devastated but you just have to get on with it.

“What comes around goes around. Maybe they will run their own feet over with it.”

Mrs Elliott, who has been using the wheelchair for the past 20 months, says the thieves must have had a vehicle to take the equipment away.

Police say the burglars got in through a side door into the garage in Carlyle Avenue, Bromley on April 4.