The mother of a terminally ill one-year-old is appealing for help after the suitcase containing his life-saving medication was stolen.

Poppy Creasey and her boyfriend Jack Goldup returned home with their son Ayrton after spending the weekend in Whitstable.

The couple had parked their white Seat Ibiza outside their home in Ward's Hill Road, Minster, before getting Ayrton and their baggage out.

Poppy said: “We got home at about 5.30pm and it was raining.

“We got Ayrton out first, it takes two of us to get him out of the car with his suction machine, and then I came back out and grabbed a few bags from the boot.

“We said we’d wait for the rain to stop before getting the rest.”

Ayrton was diagnosed with the nervous system disorder Krabbe disease when he was seven months old.

“The illness means he will lose the ability to do pretty much everything; see, hear, smile. He’s not expected to live past two years,” Poppy said.

The 21-year-old added: “Ayrton needed to take his anti-seizure medication on Sunday at 10pm, so I went back out to the car at about 9.30pm and his dolphin case was gone.

“I remember putting it in the boot because I remember having to squeeze it in.

“Someone must have taken it, with all his medication in, from the time I had opened the boot and gone in with the bags and come back out again because the car wasn’t damaged.”

The mother-of-one said as well as Ayrton’s medication, the suitcase also had two of his blankets inside, splints for his hands, the charger for his suction machine and an iPad that he takes on his hospital visits.

Poppy’s purse and make-up bag was also inside.

The couple managed to get an emergency prescription from Mistry Chemist in Wood Street, Sheerness, on Monday morning, but Ayrton missed Sunday’s dose.

“He was completely unsettled,” Poppy said.

"I just can't believe someone could do this, especially in broad daylight and right outside our home" - Poppy Creasey

“We didn’t get to sleep until about four in the morning.”

The former Minster College pupil said the whole ordeal had left her feeling angry and upset.

“I just can’t believe someone could do this, especially in broad daylight and right outside our home," she said.

“There is nothing in that case that’s worth anything to anyone apart from Ayrton – we just want it back.

“The iPad has pictures on it of Ayrton from when he was born that are nowhere else.

“Ayrton is not going to live for long, so we want to keep everything he’s ever had.”

Police are investigating.

Anyone with information should call 01795 419119, quoting reference XY/66238/18 or the anonymous Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111.