A cancer nurse who cycled to Skegness to raise money for charity was devastated when thieves stole her bike.
Samantha Arnull, 28, was with a group of fund-raisers who cycled to the east coast and back in aid of cancer charity 20-20 Voice – which helps people who suffer with head and neck cancer.
The event took place on Saturday, August 23, and Samantha – a nurse at Leicester Royal Infirmary's Kinmonth Unit – managed to raise more than £500 for the cause.
However, after she had got back and locked the £800 bike in her boyfriend's shed, thieves broke in and stole it.
Samantha, of Littlethorpe, said: "When you're trying to do something good for someone and raise money it's just a kick in the teeth when something like this happens. It feels like there's no justice in the world.
"I think it's disgusting. You work so hard for things and you don't expect people to just come along and take them from under your nose."
Samantha is now asking people to call the police with information about the bike in an attempt to get it back.
It was taken from her boyfriend's home in Threadgold Close, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, between August 23 and Thursday, August 28.
The bike is a dark grey Boardman.
Samantha said: "If anyone sees it or knows where it is, please call the police."
The 20-20 Voice charity was started by Phil Johnson, who lost his voice-box to cancer in November 2010 and uses an electro-larynx to speak. He met Samantha when he was a patient at the Kinmonth Unit and the pair have raised money for the cause since.
Phil said: "We are absolutely disgusted that some low-life should attack a charity patron like this.
"Samantha has supported our charity since I set it up almost three years ago to bring awareness to the nation regarding head and neck cancers.
"We are purchasing vital equipment so as to bring diagnostics forward by as much as nine months, as our types of cancer are seldom detected without investigative surgery."
Phil said head and neck cancer has risen by more than 600 per cent in the past 10 years.
Anyone with information about the missing bike can call police on 101.
For more information about the 20-20 Voice charity, visit:
www.2020cancerappeal.org
