Driver's massive stolen goods haul

White was sentenced to 300 hours' community service

Police who raided the home of a delivery driver found a huge haul of stolen goods.

Officers recovered parcels of stolen property, most of which were unopened, and a range of items including hair remover and breast enhancers.

White was caught after a White Arrow Express manager happened to spot him behaving oddly at work.

Among the items found at his home in Livingston, West Lothian, were 96 pairs of trousers, 82 shirts and blouses, piles of dresses and skirts and 37 packs of bed linen.

A manager spotted White behaving oddly

Police recovered garden tools, kitchen appliances, a computer, the hair remover and the breast enhancers.

They also found eight wallets, six jogging suits, four sets of curtains, piles of games and toys, a stencil kit, a pair of mules, a box of coat hangers and a torch.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that he took home an estimated £5,000 worth of goods over a period of a year while working as a delivery driver with White Arrow Express at Newbridge Industrial Estate, in Edinburgh.

A manager who was sitting in his car at traffic lights spotted White behaving oddly.

He relayed the information on to a team manager who drove to the spot where White was seen and found three empty sacks hidden in bushes.

The team manager followed White on his rounds the next day but saw nothing unusual.

Removed a package

But several days later White left the depot earlier than usual and aroused suspicion.

Two other staff members were sent to his home at in Ivanhoe Rise in Livingston.

White returned in his car that afternoon and removed a package which he put behind a fence.

When he was confronted by his colleagues, he admitted that the parcel was not his and he was led off to a nearby police station.

The court heard that White confessed, saying: "I didn't know what was in the parcels I just took them."

He and his family had used a some of the goods, but most were untouched.

At an earlier hearing, White, pleaded guilty to theft between September 1998, when he joined the company, and November, 1999.

Sheriff Elizabeth Jarvie, QC, said she would sentence White to 300 hours' community service because most of the items had been recovered and he had made no financial gain.