A disabled woman whose mobility scooter was stolen from outside her house in Bradford has got a new one thanks to a Good Samaritan.

Jack Leyland was one of a number of people who read about the plight of Katrina Green and her partner Robert Buckingham in yesterday’s Telegraph & Argus.

Miss Green was left in tears as she claimed her “freedom” had been stolen along with the scooter, after it was pinched from her doorstep on Tuesday morning.

But now, Miss Green is mobile again after Mr Leyland, who helps run Guiseley Mobility with his dad Glenn, offered to give her a former demonstration scooter for free. He dropped it off at Miss Green’s home in Great Horton yesterday.

Miss Green said: “It has made my day – thank you so much. It is fantastic, I want to thank the business who gave me it.

“It is lovely that people came forward to help. I was not expecting that at all.”

Mr Leyland, whose shop is on Oxford Road, Guiseley, said: “We are a small, family-run business and we have had folk help us out over the years, so we like to help others when we can.”

Martin Blowers, owner of Mobility Plus in Towngate, Wyke, also offered to help Miss Green. He said he would have given Miss Green a new scooter and sorted out three months’ free insurance to get her “up and mobile again”.

He added: “Anything to do with mobility always stands out to me. It touched me, especially in these hard times.”

James McIlvenny, chairman of natural fabric suppliers Whaleys (Bradford) Ltd in Great Horton, also offered assistance. He said: “I was very sad to read about the terrible theft of the mobility scooter from Katrina Green and, as a local business, we would very much like to give a small donation towards the cost of replacement.”

Anyone with information on the theft, or where the scooter is, should contact police in Bradford on 101.

l A police spokesman said yesterday that officers were investigating a possible sighting of the scooter at a scrapyard in Tyersal. He said: “We had a report of a sighting of someone riding a red mobility scooter round a scrapyard in Tyersal. We are investigating.”