As a scenes of crime officer was dusting for fingerprints, single mum, Rachael Dunn, spoke about the heartless burglars who have stolen her laptop from her Candlebark Circuit home, and with it all the photos of her four year old toddler, Thomas.

Tears welled up as Ms Dunn, who lives alone with her son, said: "All my photos of Thomas are on the laptop, all his birthdays; they just can't be replaced."

As well as the photos, there was an unfinished book that Ms Dunn is writing about life as a single mum. The 80 pages that she has already written represent about 18 months work, she said.

It was sometime between 10am and 12 noon Monday morning that thieves entered Ms Dunn's property in Candlebark Circuit and took a 42 inch plasma TV, jewellery, a video camera and digital camera as well as the laptop.

Ms Dunn was only out for two hours in the morning but returned to discover drawers open in her bedroom and items pulled out from under the bed.

"I then went into the lounge and realised that the TV had gone as well," she said.

Then I realised that there were other things missing like the watch that mum gave me for Christmas but it's the photos of Thomas that are the most important," Ms Dunn said.

"These low lifes had to walk over his toys to take this stuff. Have they got any idea what we will go through?" Ms Dunn asked angrily.

"When I saw the bedroom and then saw that the TV had gone, I felt sick."

Ms Dunn, who had no insurance, is begging the heartless thieves to think again and return the laptop containing young Thomas's photos and her unfinished book.

"If you have a heart at least drop off the laptop outside my house or the police station," she pleaded.