Maisie in plea to phone thieves

HEARTBROKEN Maisie has just one item on her Christmas list — her mum’s stolen phone

Toddler makes Christmas wish for return of mum’s phone
A TODDLER battling the after-effects of leukaemia has just one item on her Christmas list — the return of her mum’s stolen phone.

Little Maisie Whitworth, who is five, is hoping for a Christmas miracle as she and mum Lisa urge thieves to return the phone, which was stolen at the Royal Oldham Hospital on Monday when Lisa put it down to attend to her daughter.

The phone holds Maisie’s favourite photographs and videos, taken over the last four years as she has been in and out of hospital.

Lisa knows she won’t get her precious pictures back unless the thief has the heart to return them — and she is asking anyone who finds it or took it to hand it back.

“The photos can’t be replaced; Maisie loves looking through them,” said Lisa, of Royton.

“Some of them are of happy times she needs to be reminded of — a trip to Lapland she had last year through Wish Upon a Star, and when Sir Ian Botham came to visit.

“Maisie is in hospital a lot and likes to pass the time looking at them and laughing at the videos of herself.”

Maisie was just hours from being discharged from the new hospital children’s unit on Monday when the phone was stolen.

Lisa said: “It was my fault, I was distracted and I put the phone down in the family room. I took Maisie a drink, realised what I’d done and ran back — but the phone was gone.”

The student nurse continued: “I’m not bothered about the phone. It’s the photos I want back. Even just the memory card.”