Appeal launched to help Ezra Caulton from Easton-on-the-Hill have a place to play
| Updated: 11:17, 05 February 2021
A family has launched a âDIY SOSâ appeal to help their little boy, who has mobility issues, be able to play safely.
Five-year-old Ezra Caulton was born prematurely, at just 28 weeks, and has global development delay, which means he cannot walk or run like most other children his age.
Thanks to the support of fundraisers, his parents Beverley and Andy have been able to buy a special pushchair to help Ezra get out and about and now need help to make the garden at their home in Easton-on-the-Hill a safe place for him to play.
Retired police officer Mike Jasper was walking through his local park with his spaniel cross, Ted, one morning last month when two men wearing facemasks approached him and started to ask questions about his beloved four-year-old pet.
Feeling uncomfortable, 66-year-old Mike started to walk away, only to find himself pushed to the ground while one of the men forced the lead from his hand and made off with Ted.
Mike has not seen him since.
The theft out of the blue, in broad daylight, and in a South London park crowded with walkers and joggers has left him devastated.
‘He is still in shock,’ his daughter Lucinda Jasper, 28, told the Mail.