A DISABLED Eastleigh man's lifeline has been returned thanks to a sharp-eyed Daily Echo reader.

Thieves stole 52-year-old Christ-opher Leech's wheelchair from the carport of his home in Mount-batten Road, Boyatt Wood, in broad daylight.

But just hours after yesterday's Daily Echo story, the wheelchair was back where it belonged after a reader spotted the chair and telephoned Eastleigh police.