Daughter is jailed after stealing own father’s safe in £50k heist
A DAUGHTER who staged a heist to steal nearly £50,000 from her father to fund cosmetic surgery and a shopping spree was jailed for two years yesterday.
Lisa Reid and partner Mark Green hatched an elaborate plan to steal a safe containing Derek Reid’s life savings while he was on holiday.
Green was jailed for 30 months after a jury found both guilty of staging the robbery and blowing the stolen cash within weeks.
The 35-year-old was given a longer sentence because he has a worse criminal record.
Sheriff Gillian Wade said: ‘This was a planned offence and both of you seem to be equally culpable for what went on.’
She told Reid: ‘You accept you were the person behind it, that it was your idea and that it was you who drove your partner into perpetrating this offence.
‘Mr Green’s role was far greater than he is prepared to admit. I do not accept that you were an innocent bystander who was brought in at the last minute.
‘It was carried out without any regard for the victims of the crime and I see no alternative to custodial sentences.’
The jury at Perth Sheriff Court heard the couple, of Kelty, Fife, waited until Mr Reid was on holiday before breaking into his home in Montrose, Angus, and stealing the safe in which they knew he kept the family’s savings.
When police raided their home two months later they found it crammed full of gifts and more than £22,000 had been spent.
The couple bought three cars in a few days and had paid for them with the used £20 notes Mr Reid had saved up for years. Detectives also found 3,000 euros the couple had converted to pay for them to visit Belgium, where Reid admitted she was planning to have a ‘boob job’.
The couple – whose home was littered with receipts and still-contradicted wrapped items including eight pairs of Ugg boots – denied being involved in the robbery.
But the court was shown CCTV footage from several places which their evidence about their whereabouts.
Mother-of-one Reid, 29, told officers that despite not working she was able to save up her benefits to pay for the items and a cosmetic surgery holiday in Belgium.
The duo spent £1,830 on beds the day after taking the safe and there were so many new items in their spare room police had to order a large van to remove it all.
Derek Reid previously told the court he was certain his daughter Lisa and Green were behind the theft. The court was told that £48,700 in £20 notes was stored in a spare bedroom. Mr Reid said: ‘If you watched that programme from many years ago – Bread – that is like the way we worked. Most of my bairns can’t keep money, they just squander it.’
He denied paying for Reid to have cosmetic surgery, holiday in Belgium or buy a computer, a Dyson vacuum cleaner, a bed and mattress or cash in euros.
The jury was told Mr Reid was on holiday on September 10, 2016, when he got a call to say that the safe had been taken.
Reid and Green, a yardman, were found guilty of breaking in, stealing a safe and forcing it open to steal the £48,700 contents.
‘No regard for victims of crime’