A 22-year-old man has been charged after stealing a mobility scooter in Mandurah.
Between 5.10pm and 5.40pm on Tuesday, a man who requires the gopher for his medical condition parked it outside the Visitor Centre on the Mandurah Foreshore.
As he was in the rest room, it is alleged the 22-year-old man drove away in the gopher.
The gopher also contained the owner’s mobile phone and other personal items.
The mobility scooter, but not the personal items, were located by police parked in the carport of a block of units on Rockford Street in Mandurah and was returned to the owner.
"[It's] cowardly, stupid, I mean who steals a gopher from a disabled guy," the victim's sister Donna Williams told Nine News.
"[The gopher] is everything [to him] really, he just lives to get out there on his gopher... it's independence as well, otherwise he would be stuck at home."
The 22-year-old man from Mandurah will face court on Thursday, also charged with fraud, stealing a motor vehicle and no authority to drive.
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