Kilmarnock boy gets free laptop after his is stolen

Jul 3 2009 by Clair Fullarton, Kilmarnock Standard

A LITTLE boy who wrote to a computer superstore asking for help after his laptop was pinched was delighted when they gave him a brand new one for free!

Conor Hood, 10, was devastated when his precious laptop used for homework projects and to keep in touch was friends on MSN and Bebo, was stolen.

Conor wrote to PC World in Ayr – the biggest letter he’d ever written – asking if they could sell him an ‘older, cheaper laptop’ so that it wouldn’t cost his mum too much money.

Conor, of Kilmarnock, wrote: “My Mum’s is a brilliant mum. She saved up all her money from the summertime until Christmas to buy me a laptop for Christmas.

“It was the very best present I ever got. I loved my laptop.

“It helped me get an ‘A’ for my Tutankhamen project.”

After the computer was pinched, Conor, a pupil at Kirkstyle Primary, admitted: “I am really sad and I was crying and my mum was crying as well.”

When PC World bosses read the letter they were so moved they immediately decided to give Conor a laptop.

A spokesman for the store said: “All of us here at the Ayr store, managers and colleagues alike, felt that we had to do something to help Conor.

“The community has supported us here at the Ayr store now for over six years and this was an ideal opportunity for us to support the community in return.”

Tracy Lennon, Conor’s mum, said: “Words are not enough to express my thanks to the manager and all the guys at PC World.

“It was such a lovely gesture on their part, it’s been overwhelming actually, and Conor is just over the moon. The guys at PC World are his heroes.”