Pleaafter bikesare stolen
Celebrations as Cole marks 12 months without seizures
An East-kilbride mum is appealing to the public for information about her daughter’s stolen bike.
Aimee Anderson’s cycle was a birthday gift and was stolen in broad daylight on Friday from outside Debenhams at EK East Kilbride shopping centre.
Not only was Aimee’s bike stolen, her dad’s was also taken.
Mum, Lesley told the News: “Aimee got the bike for her 13th birthday at the end of July and she loves it. She’s hardly been off it since she got it.
“On Friday about 11.30am, we went to the shopping centre having padlocked her bike, and her dad’s bike to a lamp post near the Debenhams entrance.
“When we came out at 1.15pm both bikes were gone. She’s devastated.”
Aimee’s bike is brand new and is very distinctive in colour. It has bright orange branding on the frame that
Aimee loves her bike, she’s devastated
says “Orbea” and has LED lights.
Her dad’s bike is a black and silver Trek Ex 8 29 ER with bar ends and spd pedals.
CCTV captured two males approach the bikes before breaking the padlocks and making off with them, but Lesley is appealing to the public who may have seen the incident take place.
She added: “Two males were dropped off from a car and approached the bikes.
“It was a nice day and people were sitting round so they may have seen this happen but not have immediately thought it was suspicious.
“They have broken the padlocks and made their way through the underpass.
“CCTV shows there were people in the underpass at the time. I’m appealing to those people who may have seen where the men went to get in touch.
“If anyone sees this bike or was outside the shopping centre around lunchtime on Friday and saw these two men remove this bikes, please contact me.”
Anyone with any information is urged to get in touch with Lesley via Facebook: www.facebook. com/lesley.anderson.94849
FRASER WILSON
Brave Cole Thomson celebrated a year being seizure free last week with his friends and family.
That’s thanks to having access to the lifesaving Bedrolite drug his family cannot access on the NHS.
Newlandsmuir youngster Cole suffers from severe epileptic seizures and relies on the imported cannabis oil to survive.
And last Wednesday (August 12) is a day that his campaigning mother, Lisa Quarrell, said that she could only dream about last year.
Celebrating with her son, she told the News: “Celebrating Cole’s one-year seizure free was amazing and surreal because it was a day I never thought possible.
“We celebrated with family and close friends and had a cake made, t-shirt, balloons and banners.
“Now lockdown is starting to ease I’m looking at getting back out there campaigning properly.
“I have continued to write to the Scottish Government and NHS, but unfortunately I’m still no further forward.
“I’m so grateful to the generous donations made to Cole’s fund during lockdown or we could be in a very different place.” As well as his party Lisa had organised for friends, family, and supporters – along with some of his heroes – to send video messages to Cole on his special day.
Ex-cop Lisa previously admitted smuggling the Bedrolite oil medicine in from the Netherlands before receiving a private prescription for it.
Lisa has been awarded the title of‘advocate of the year’ at The Cannabis Awards.
Organised by cannabis activist and filmmaker, Mike Wise, she will be awarded with a medal and international publicity about her and Cole’s plight.
Lisa was given the award following a public vote in which she secured 43.15 per cent to win.
Earlier this year, health minister Jeane Freeman told Lisa that – because she “went private” – it would be deemed “improper use” of NHS funds to pay for Cole’s prescription.
She now faces a constant battle to raise £1000 a month to pay for the lifesaving drug, with a fundraiser she set up last August having amassed £7343 of its £18,000 target. And Lisa believes that the cannabis oil she buys for her epileptic son has saved his young life.
She added: “From the day Cole took his first seizure, at just threemonths-old, he has taught me and our family so much.
“Everyday is a school day, especially in these past two years.
“I can say that it has opened my eyes to a world full of greed, bureaucracy, tick-box exercises, and meetings for the sake of meetings.
“We are governed by a system run on ‘what ifs’ rather than what’s actually happening in front of our eyes.
“But our journey has also shown me love, generosity, communities coming together, parents fighting for the rights of our children, strangers who are now friends, the strongest people, and the most amazing support for my gorgeous boys and I .
“Thank you to everyone who follows, supports, donates and shares Cole’s story and our fight to get Cole an NHS prescription for the cannabis medicine which has given my son the chance to live his best life.”
You can continue to support Lisa and Cole by heading to https://www.gofundme.com/f/ colesmedicine