REID: WOULD-BE SOCIAL WORKER GRABBED A TV
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11 August 2011
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A graduate planning to train as a social worker today (Thurs) admitted grabbing a flat screen TV from a looted store.
Natasha Reid, 24, stole the JVC set worth £269.99 from Comet in Enfield, north London on Sunday night.
Reid was on the way to McDonald’s when she saw the store had been looted and said she joined in ‘on the spur of the moment.’
She later handed herself in at her local police station, claiming she was ‘wracked with guilt’ had been unable to sleep since committing the offence.
Reid, of (21) Rosemary Avenue, Edmonton, admitted theft and entering the store with intent to steal at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Previously of good character, she was bailed to return to the court on September 1.
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