Jailed for crimewave Kinross resident gets 20 months for thefts in town

A woman was jailed for a total of 20 months at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday for a mini crimewave in Kinross.

In the space of a week, 27-yearold Abbey Miller, of Green Park, Kinross, broke into cars, a shed and a private house in the town, making off with electronic equipment, a bank card, a ring and watch and other personal effects.

The accused’s catalogue of crime began at Churchill Road, Kinross, on June 23 when she got into an insecure vehicle in Churchill Road and stole a rucksack and electronic items.

Three days later, she broke into David Aiton’s shed in Montgomery Street and pinched a bank card and more electronic accessories.

On June 29, she forced open a car in Katrine Place and helped herself to an electric saw and a vehicle registration document.

The same day, she broke into the property owned by James and Shauna Ward in Lomond Place and stole a set of car keys, a quantity of foreign currency, a number of coins, a ring and a watch.

She was subject to a June 27 bail order from the Perth court at the time.

Miller, who has been on remand in an Edinburgh jail, also flouted a bail curfew order on three occasions following its imposition at the Perth court on June 27.

She had been ordered to stay within her bail address at Green Park from 7pm-7am but ignored that on June 27, 28 and 29 by being in Bowton Road, Kinross.

Solicitor John McLaughlin said: “She realises that prison is the likely outcome - and accepts that.

“She has found her period on remand pretty hard going.”

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis noted that she had a directly analogous conviction for entering a lockfast motor vehicle in 2010, as well as a conviction for theft earlier this year.

Taking the breach of special bail conditions into account as well, he told her: “It’s entirely appropriate a custodial sentence is imposed.”

The sentenced was backdated to June 30 when Miller was remanded.