A NINE-YEAR-OLD autistic boy has been left heartbroken after his beloved X-Box was stolen in a burglary.
Jack Dean's condition means that he needs a routine in his life, which the console helped provide.
But yesterday morning he went downstairs to discover the X-Box and 32 games were missing.
Crying, Jack then went back upstairs to tell his mum "I can't play on my games, because someone has taken them all".
Mum Michelle Broderick said: "Jack was diagnosed with autism two years ago and is studying in the pupil-referred Newton's Walk, in Allestree, which specialises in teaching children like my little boy.
"Having an X-Box is part of his routine which enables him to cope with his autism and ADHD and having that taken away has knocked that."
Jack, of Bembridge Drive, Alvaston, said: "I was really, really sad because my X-Box was missing and all my games."
Jack and Ms Broderick are still grieving the loss of Jack's grandmother, Shirley Wheatley, who died from lung cancer two months ago at the age of 58.
Ms Broderick said her mother was "the keystone of the family" and would care for Jack while she went for work.
Mrs Wheatley, of nearby Boscastle Road, in Alvaston, had only been diagnosed with cancer two weeks before she died.
Ms Broderick said: "My mum was everything to us and we are still struggling to cope with the grief.
"Now this has happened to us just two months after we lost Mum. It's like everything that could go wrong has gone wrong."
Ms Broderick, 40, who works as a trainer, said two X-Box consoles were taken by the burglars, who got in through an open window at the back of her home.
They also stole games, cables, leads and a battery pack.
She said Jack and his brother, Aiden, 15, a Noel-Baker Community School pupil, had an X-Box each because they would link them up and play games against each other.
Ms Broderick said: "I feel completely violated."
A spokesman for Derbyshire Police said officers had conducted house-to-house inquiries and hoped someone may know who has stolen the consoles and games.
He said: "The burglary happened some time between 1am and 7.30am yesterday and our crime scenes are investigating."
