Two years in jail for woman who stole £50,000 from her dad.

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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 her partner Mark Green hatched an elaborate plan to steal a safe containing Derek Reid’s £48,700 life savings while he was on holiday.

Green was jailed for 30 months yesterday after a jury found both guilty of staging the robbery and blowing the stolen cash on an Aladdin’s Cave of goods within a few weeks.

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 and 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.”

Green was given a longer sentence because he has a worse criminal record.

The jury heard how the couple waited until Mr Reid was away on holiday before breaking into his home and stealing the safe they knew he kept the entire family’s savings in.

By the time the 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 around 3,000 euros that the couple had converted to pay for them to go to Belgium where Reid admitted she was planning to have cosmetic surgery.

The couple – whose Kelty home was littered with receipts and still-wrapped items including eight pairs of Ugg boots – denied being involved in the robbery.

But the court was shown CCTV footage from several different places which contradicted their evidence about their whereabouts.

Reid told officers that, despite not working, she was able to save up her benefits to pay for the items and the holiday in Belgium.

Det Con Kelly Webster, 31, told the jury: “There were boxes and boxes of shoes, brand new in the box.” Reid replied: “I know I’ve got a lot of shoes.” She told the officer: “Financially, I’m totally fine.”

There was so much new gear in their spare room that police had to order a large van to take it all away.

Reid, 29, and yardsman Green, 35, of Croftangry Road, Kelty, were found guilty of breaking in on September 10 2016 and stealing a safe and forcing it open to steal the £48,700 contents.

Lisa Reid and Mark Green were sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court.