{"id":638689,"date":"2025-12-17T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638689\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:54:13","slug":"wheelchair-among-items-recovered-after-family-car-stolen-in-west-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638689\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair among items recovered after family car stolen in west Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Mr Mac Gabhann awoke and saw that his car had vanished from the street and he initially thought it was a joke someone he knew had pulled on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I almost didn&#8217;t want to believe that it was stolen&#8221;, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However neighbours&#8217; CCTV confirmed it was taken at about 03:50 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It had been full of Christmas presents as well as his son&#8217;s wheelchair, something he said his son &#8220;can&#8217;t live without, can&#8217;t go to school, get on with his day, or even leave the house&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Mac Gabhann said the family are trying their best &#8220;not to let it affect&#8221; Christmas for their two sons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe this has happened around here, but I am blessed the community has rallied around us and showed us all this support.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mr Mac Gabhann awoke and saw that his car had vanished from the street and he initially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-638689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115736429379830344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}