Postal worker stole gifts and greetings cards over five

A ROYAL mail worker stole 135 packages meant for customers over a period of five years.

Between 2014 and 2019, Lynsey Shaw took greetings cards and gift cards.

The 46-year-old, of Charles Street, Leabrooks, near Alfreton, pleaded guilty to theft from her employer when she appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court.

She was jailed for 26 weeks, suspended for a year and was handed a three-month tagged curfew and was ordered to pay £1,500 costs and a £122 victim surcharge.

As well as taking the 135 postal packages between October 2014 and October 2019, she also admitted to stealing seven postal packages containing greetings cards on October 30, 2019.

The following offenders have also recently been convicted at the same court of the following offences:

Faisal Ali, 40, of Trowels Lane, Derby, was jailed for 16 weeks and told to pay a £128 victim surcharge for assault in Derby on August 13, 2021.

Kevin Summers, 53, of Normanton Road, Normanton, was fined £60 and told to pay £85 costs and a £34 victim surcharge for attempting to possess Mamba in Derby on March 30, 2021.

Phillip Jenkins, 36, of Stevenlands Drive, Boulton Moor, was handed an 18-month conditional discharge and told to pay £700 compensation, £200 costs and a £22 victim surcharge for criminal damage of a Ford Ka and for resisting arrest in Haig Street, Derby, on July 24, 2020.

Paul Ley, 64, of Sevenlands Drive, Boulton Moor, was jailed for 20 weeks, suspended for a year, and told to carry out 80 hours unpaid work, told to

£620 costs, a £128 victim handed a two-year restraining order for racially aggravated assault in

Moor on June 14, 2020.

Vince Paul, 56, of Derby Road, Hilton, was jailed for six weeks, for a year and told to pay £85 costs and a £128 victim surcharge for assault criminal damage of an iPhone in Hilton on June 27, 2020.

Daniel Small, 47, of Green Derby, was jailed for 20 weeks and yold to pay a £18 victim surcharge for four counts of stealing bottles of wine a Co-operative supermarket in Derby between July 10 and 24,

Anthony Millward, 49, of Foyle nue, Derby, was jailed for 16 weeks, suspended for 18 months and was ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work and told to pay £710 compensation, £85 costs and a £128 victim surcharge for possessing an offensive weapon - an axe - and criminal damage of a window in Chaddesden on ary 21, 2021 and for criminal damage of a car in the same street on February 22, 2021.

Keavey Toal, 21, of Chalkley Close, Alvaston, was jailed for 36 weeks tolto pay £160 compensation sessing a knife in public in Griffin Close, Derby, on August 25, 2021 and for criminal damage and assault Derby on March 21,

Stephen Carter, 47, of Road, Derby, was jailed for 20 and told to pay £85 costs and a victim surcharge for entering Brad- shaw Retail park, Derby, as a trespasser

forOcrimi- with intent to steal on August 25,

Benjamin Dalton, 30, of Flint Street, Allenton, was ordered to pay £300 compensation and £85 costs nal damage of a door in Allenton on January 20, 2020.