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A RAVENSWOOD resident is unable to leave her home without assistance after someone stole her electric wheelchair last week and set it on fire in the street. Anna Greaves – who battles cerebral palsy – awoke last Wednesday to find her garage had been broken into and her much-needed motorised chair was gone. A neighbour found its charred remains one street away a short time later and police were contacted. “(The culprit is) a low life,” Ms Greaves said. “There is a lot of low lives.” Once simple tasks like going to the nearby convenience store for groceries are now painstaking chores for Ms Greaves, who does not have the strength to push herself down the road in her standard wheelchair. “I can’t get out anymore,” she said. “Not unless someone is here to help me get down the ramp. It’s hard with the gutters. I can’t get the wheelchair over them.” Friends and family of the Ravenswood mother are considering starting a social media crowdfunding campaign to help purchase Ms Greaves another electric wheelchair. Police are investigating the incident. Anyone who saw the incident, or anyone who has information, should contact Launceston Criminal Investigation Branch on 131 444, or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000.

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