A dishonest employee who stole property worth more than £1,400 while working for a Sleaford delivery firm has been handed a suspended jail sentence.You might wonder how he got the job, too:
FedEx worker John Hirst (Ed: No, not this one) was found guilty of seven theft charges after a trial at Lincoln Crown Court.
The stolen items valued at £1,433 included paint rollers, power drills, radios, a laminator and a laptop computer.
Hirst,43, denied the charges but the court heard he involved another colleague by failing to scan parcels inside his van, and then moving the stolen items to his car.
Hirst had previous convictions for theft and burglary and had moved to Sleaford from West Yorkshire.Here comes the ‘mitigation’. Get your tissues ready…
Rachel Ward, mitigating, told the court Hirst had suffered domestic violence at the hands of both his father and two elder brothers.Errrr, not really. He was thieving in West Yorkshire and he continued thieving in Sleaford.
She said: "He moved to the Lincolnshire area to make a fresh start….
That’s not, in any way, a ‘fresh start’.
Nice ‘work’ if you can get it!
… His evidence was that he enjoyed his work at FedEx. He has of course lost his job, as well as his relationship and where he was living in Sleaford. He has not worked since."Well, yes, I expect he did ‘enjoy his job’, since it meant he didn’t have to go out and burgle for luxury goods any more, they were given to him!
He was sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for a year, ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work in the community and told to pay FedEx £750 compensation.In other words, half of what he stole…
Nice ‘work’ if you can get it!
'Rachel Ward, mitigating ..'
ReplyDeleteBlimey, she's come down in the world hasn't she? The last I heard of her, she was some big film actress plying her trade in Aus. Married Bryan Torso (aka Brown).
Crime does pay.And if he'd only taken a parcel a month he'd never have been caught.
ReplyDeleteThis situation is one that would be best answered by importing one or more of the remedies on offer in less 'enlightened' countries...
ReplyDeleteChop the blighter's hands off, then he would not be able to steal. Who says that crime doesn't pay? Bah!
"Blimey, she's come down in the world hasn't she? The last I heard of her, she was some big film actress plying her trade in Aus. Married Bryan Torso (aka Brown)."
ReplyDeleteAnd come to think of that, whatever happened to him..?
"And if he'd only taken a parcel a month he'd never have been caught."
Indeed! It's always greed that gets them caught.
"This situation is one that would be best answered by importing one or more of the remedies on offer in less 'enlightened' countries..."
I'm beginning to think it'd solve quite a lot of our current issues.