Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Thief took OAP’s coins
A ONE-time Angus anti-crime poster girl stole a pensioner’s commemorative coin collection and cash.
Kathleen Carnegie stole 40 coins collected by an Arbroath pensioner who gathered rare and special editions after she talked her way into his flat.
She also took £30 in banknotes.
Carnegie pounced when he went to the kitchen for a cigarette.
She was caught with £50-worth of the coins after overdosing but the elderly victim remains out of pocket.
After admitting the theft and a string of other offences at Forfar Sheriff Court, she was ordered to engage with the Glen Isla project for three months.
In 2019 Carnegie was held up as an example of someone who had turned their life around with the help of the same rehabilitative programme.
Carnegie took a bag of 20 £1 coins, a bag of 20 £2 coins, a £10 note and a £20 note.
The money had been special denominations minted to signify and commemorate historical landmarks.
Carnegie, 44, pled guilty to stealing money from the home of the pensioner on July 6 2022.
She admitted further crimes during her appearance last week.
She assaulted two PCs and had cocaine at West Bell Street HQ on September 1 2022.
At Forfar B&M, she stole artificial flowers and a shopping bag and behaved in a threatening or abusive manner towards an employee on May 20 last year, while on four bail orders.
She admitted a fourth complaint that at Taranty Road BestOne in Forfar, she stole ice cream and vapes and acted abusively to the shopkeeper.
Carnegie, from Forfar, is due back in the dock on July 11.