Shop worker stole money

A SHOP assistant who pocketed £2000 of customers' money to pay for his drug habit has been ordered to perform 180 hours of Community Service.

Ryan Courtney, 26, of Oxgangs Avenue, Edinburgh, appeared in the city's Sheriff Court yesterday where he was told his action had been a serious breach of trust.

Courtney had pled guilty previously to stealing various sums of money while working in British Home Stores on Princes Street between April and October last year.

Sentence had been deferred for background reports. Defence solicitor advocate, Duncan Hughes, said "He will have to find a way to repay that money."