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Hairdresser found guilty of £62k eBay scam

A TOP hairdresser has been found guilty of stealing almost a thousand pairs of hair straighteners from an award-winning Edinburgh salon and selling them on eBay for thousands of pounds.

Mark McMorrine, 37, stole the top-of-the-range GHD hair straightening irons – which sell for up to 140 each in shops – from Charlie Miller Hairdressing in Ocean Terminal, where he was the manager, and another salon.

He then sold 946 pairs of irons on internet auction site eBay, raking in 62,000 of profit.

A jury at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday found him guilty by majority of theft and fraud after a three-week trial. McMorrine, of Lasswade Court, Lasswade, Midlothian, has been allowed to remain on bail until he is sentenced next month after background reports.

The jury took two hours to return their majority verdict.

Salon boss Charlie Miller, 63, who was in court to hear the verdict, said afterwards: "I'm glad it's all over for everyone's sake and happy that justice has been done. I'm very sad for him."


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